Harry Winks recently admitted that he didn’t like what was happening to him at club level as he struggles to play regularly (Daily Mail).
The midfielder is highly-regarded by England manager Gareth Southgate and that explains why he has been called up to the national team even though he hasn’t been seeing regular first-team football at Spurs.
Winks looks like a backup option at Tottenham at the moment with the trio of Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Moussa Sissoko, and Tanguy Ndombele all playing ahead of him in Jose Mourinho’s starting XI.
He is undoubtedly a talented player and he is good enough to play regularly in most European teams.
His outburst while on international duty for England drew the attention of many and he had some support from fans too.
However, Noel Whelan claims that he didn’t have to go public with the status of things.
He claimed that the midfielder should have had a conversation with his manager on how things are going with him instead.
Whelan told Football Insider: “I think there’s a right way of doing things, I’m old school.
“I do think it should sometimes be, you know, with a manager, sitting down, talking, finding out where you belong in the pecking order, how important you are to the football club and the manager’s plans, before you come out publicly and say anything.
“Harry is still a very good international player, we saw it the other night when he came on, he is still very much in Gareth Southgate’s plans.
“Can you afford to leave out a player of international quality? It’s difficult because they’ve got a lot of players in that position and Jose Mourinho, you can’t really argue right now when they’re sitting second.”