Here are your Tottenham Hotspur evening headlines for Monday, December 21.
Sanchez not having 'good time'
Davinson Sanchez is reportedly not having a "good time" under Jose Mourinho and is considering his Spurs future.
The Colombian, who was the club's record signing at one point, has hardly featured this season, with Eric Dier and Toby Alderweireld forming an excellent central defensive partnership and Joe Rodon arriving from Swansea City.
And now, Caracol Radio via Sport Witness reports that Sanchez has been "erased" by Mourinho, having not featured in the last nine league matches. This has dropped his value from €60 million to €40 million.
Sanchez has previously been linked with a move to AC Milan and would reportedly fancy a move to Serie A.
Bale's struggles continue
Gareth Bale's struggles upon his return to Spurs continued on Sunday afternoon. The on-loan Real Madrid star has not enjoyed the dream return to north London that he would have wanted.
However, as Alasdair Gold writes for football.london, that is not entirely Bale's fault.
Bale dealt with a knee injury to open the season and hardly played football for a year. Having to rediscover his match sharpness in such circumstances is not easy.
Additionally, as Gold explains, he has not been handed a consistent role at Spurs. On Sunday, he played from the right-wing, as a target-man centre-forward, and even at right-back at different periods of the match.
You can read Gold's full analysis of Spurs' 2-0 defeat Leicester City here, including an assessment of Bale's performance.
Eric Dier explains penalty reaction
Eric Dier insists that Serge Aurier's penalty error did not impact Spurs' half-time team talk, despite Jamie Vardy's spot-kick coming seconds before the break.
Aurier carelessly bundled over Wesley Fofana in the box, conceding a penalty upon VAR review. But Dier maintains that this did not effect the team's half-time discussions.
"It's very soon after the game," said Dier. "Serge will be disappointed, any player is when they give away a penalty.
"At half-time, we just had to regroup, we knew the first half wasn't good enough with or without the ball. The conversation at half-time would've been the same [without the goal] because of the quality of our first half.
"So I don't think it changed the conversation at half-time, the goal. I don't think we did enough to score."
