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I've become quite used to people downplaying Vettels achievements, however when it goes as far as suggesting the replacement is Fernando Alonso, we're into the land of fiction. You don't exactly have to be old to remember the pre-Mercedes domination era, and what happened when Fernando drove red cars.
The things that Vettel is being criticised (rightly) for, such as squandering points leads, not being on the ball etc - these are all things that were complained about when Alonso drove a red car as well. Losing a championship being stuck behind Petrov. Throwing away an almost 40 point championship lead. When your title contender is crippled with a damaged car, not even putting yourself in a position to take advantage of that. These are things that if you asked people "Which Ferrari did this?", then most would now say Vettel but were actually Fernando.
Ferrari (and their drivers) have had a problem with sealing the deal since the Schumacher days ended. There has been one exception - when McLaren imploded (ironically, with Fernando playing a big part in it), and Kimi took the win - but since then, none of the drivers have managed to seal the deal, and Fernandos bad years were no better than Vettels bad years.
Suggesting that Fernando should replace Vettel to help take a title is like suggesting replacing Verstappen with Maldonado because Max crashes too much.
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