Yes my point is not to say that Pau hasn’t struggled for form this season, he clearly has and if you were picking players solely on who’s stronger in the air and more combative then you’d pick Mings. So my point isn’t that Mings is a bad player - but expanding out the sample size Pau has shown he can play as part of a functioning defensive system. He’s not a liability, he was a central part of what we were at our very best - and he is integral in getting our attacking play to work.
His form needs to be better, but the issues with the whole defensive system within the team have influenced that. Pau at his best is a better player overall, but Ty has some good attributes and is a useful squad member and has been a great servant. If the end game was to have Ty starting every week we wouldn’t be good enough longer-term.
I'm not disagreeing with you but I think we forget how good Mings was for Emery after we punted Gerrard. He was managing the high offside line, covering behind Moreno, running out with the ball a lot, dominating set pieces and his passing wasn't that bad at all. A completely new style of football for him and he was brilliant. From my memory he had to hand hold Konsa through some tough times then.
Torres had the summer off with not being in the Spain squad. He should have been spending that summer in the gym to be better ready physically for PL football.
