With Gio out Dele has to be an option off the bench surely. He's really the only other attacking midfielder we have.
You don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face as they say.
If they performed well every week, why not? In terms of our current squad, Tanguy is more akin to those two than Dele is.
Dele skill set is very particular. He doesn’t offer the most on the ball so what he’s got to show is hard work in matches and TRAINING, in Mourinho’s mind, it seems Dele hasn’t showed him enough of it.
Mourinho’s teams of the past 10 years always had that one player that wasn’t the hardest working but couldn’t be dropped because they brillant when they had the ball. Think Sneider, Ozil, and Hazard or even Pogba who didn't always get along with Mourinho but always played. Dele's nowhere near them, unfortunately.
This is a whole another tangent:
Fans need to remember the headlines going into Mourinho's first game was, 'Can Mourinho get the best out of Dele Alli'. First bite of Mourinho we got was 'Are you Dele or Dele's brother?'
From what I'm seeing on social media, it's as if Dele was brilliant to the day Poch left and Mourinho has decided to never give him a look in at all. In fact, the opposite is true. Dele started all but one match until Project Restart. Once the season resumed, he played in a couple matches than was injured. In terms of performance when Mourinho got in, Dele was great for a 4-6 game stretch then went backwards again.
This season, he starts the first PL match against Everton gets hooked at halftime and is rarely seen again. In the meantime, we have Hojberg and Sissoko who formed a partnership Mourinho seems to like, that leaves one midfielder spot for Dele, GLC, and Tanguy. Up until last week, 'pretty football' enthusiasts aside, the season was going much better than how we'd expect and 99% of it didn't involve Dele. All of a sudden some are upset Mourinho made a comment on Dele's biggest criticism....?