Something has to give. Either the players or the manager need to go.
And the answer should be obvious.
We need new players. People have been saying that for several transfer windows now. A proper reset, an actual rebuild, not expecting our manager to pull off miracles and the aging players to somehow find the legs they had 2 or 3 years ago again.
If some of these players have "stopped listening" (and I doubt that), move them on.
I think it's more about utterly broken confidence and having no midfielders that can run, really. Because that's evident every week. But hey, let's sack the best manager we've had in the PL era. Great idea.