Richarlison and 3 Tottenham stars who fans want to see benched

Get Richy out.
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Tottenham Hotspur supporters already had very little patience to begin with, as nobody has forgotten the debacle rivalry losses to Arsenal and Chelsea that seemed to prove both Thomas Frank's cowardice as manager and the club's overall standing as being significantly inferior to both of their Big Six London rivals.

But things are really back to a crisis level again after a 3-0 loss to Sean Dyche and Nottingham Forest, with so many of Tottenham's players struggling to produce even a modicum of respectability against one of the Premier League's worst teams. Spurs fans want to see some heads rolling.

The first player to draw the ire of Spurs fans is Richarlison, whose goal scoring record is only held up as a positive by the most ignorant of box score mongering supporters. Richarlison has scored the goals set up beautifully for him by far better teammates like Mathys Tel and Randal Kolo Muani, while the Brazilian international hogs the most starts - and also hogs the ball. He has been lethargic and useless all around, legitimately one of the worst strikers in the entire Premier League in 2025/26.

Rodrigo Bentancur is on the list

Behind him, center midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur is also deep in the dog house of the fan base, and most Tottenham supporters would like to see both Benta and Richy swiftly sold. Every time Bentancur starts, it is a disaster, and his cowardice, even hiding so he does not receive the ball, is both jarring and the epitome of everything wrong with Spurs. Him starting over either Archie Gray or Lucas Bergvall is straight up managerial malpractice on the part of Thomas Frank.

Finally, goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario is fully on the hit list for Spurs supporters after two more awful gaffes in the 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest. He drops the ball, flails at crosses, passes teammates into trouble, and gifts possession to the opposition all the while waving his arms and yelling at younger teammates who have no reason to answer for his own inexcusable errors.

Vicario has some positives and is not the worst player on the team, but Tottenham fans are sick of the selfishness combined with the costly errors. Many of them would like to see young Antonin Kinsky get starts, because even though he has real growing pains, Spurs fans feel that he has more long term upside and can not possiblly make this many costly errors in the short term anyway.

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