There is I suppose the chance that Jürgen doesn't think at this moment in time that Texeira is quite good enough for the first team. He did admittedly look very good against Sunderland under 21's, but as I said at the time so he should. Origi and Ibe would look like George Weah and John Barnes in their heyday, and we shouldn't IMHO get too carried away.
I'm happy to trust the manager on player selection by and large. That's not to say he's not open to criticism on occasions, but "backing" the manager means in my book that you trust him. Given that, if Jürgen prefers Mignolet in the team rather than Bogdan I trust him. If he starts Milner in almost every game, ditto. Similarly, I'm pretty sure that if he thought Tex was good enough the young lad would be getting game time.
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