I'm not asking/expecting him to be the absolute fulcrum. Merely asking that we play to some of his strengths if we insist in playing long balls, then the best person we have right now in the team is Dele. To be claer not asking him to perform what Kane does back to goal, but asking him to:I hate Dele, and want him out of the club. I am not saying that to annoy you or anyone else. I just don't think there is any point beating around the bush on the matter.
Just checked his stats for this season and I see he wins an average of 0.8 PL aerial duels per game. He does have some aerial ability, but not with his back to goal. The way I see his game, it depends on ghosting into space/goalscoring positions (for aerial balls or otherwise). To ask him to be a fulcrum of any sort is not his game and never will be, IMO.
a) Flick the ball (head, feet, knee, whatever) onto to Son or Lucas running in behind either side of him.
b) If played to feet, then lay off to Lo Celso/Lamela behind (pass then move, or if ball played through to Son/Lucas he should stand still and cut back is then on)
c) A longer direct ball over the top of the defence for his customary run
d) Aurier is hitting pinpoint cross after pinpoint cross every game (prior to his actual assist last night he put the ball on the head of a Spurs player THREE times, one of them was Dele which he won but headed down onto his defender for a corner).
Whether you like him or not he is far more capable of playing as the central player getting on the end of our long ball bombardment than what we are getting from Lucas and Son right now. We've evidence of this, there is no evidence of it with Son or Lucas. The problem isn't Dele, it's Son and Lucas in this long ball shithouse of Jose's.