Dele fail pic.twitter.com/0o7PdjuNEo
— FootballingGenius ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ (@BallingGenius) October 30, 2020
I’ve never been a Dele Alli fan, on the basis that I support Tottenham, and want Tottenham to win, and refuse to get emotionally overinvested in individuals we just happen to sign. Dele Alli fans I would posit, casually put the greater needs of the club to one side, in order to embrace a peculiar obsession with nutmegs, finger tricks and anything else that clearly lacks substance. Maybe I’m wrong and at some point in time, Dele will prove me wrong and the serial winner José Mourinho wrong.
I spent sometime time earlier trawling through the scouting videos for last night’s Europa game against Royal Antwerp, looking for what Dele did wrong. Dele Alli has not made a successful cross since we played Middlesbrough in the FA Cup on 05.01.2020. There was a fair amount of other stuff that points to Dele Alli not having a stellar performance, last night. The clip above summed up – for me- the Balsa Wood nature of the boy.
He just doesn’t need to trash them as much in your opinion. It can end up with you losing the dressing room, and he did eventually at both his last two jobs.
Dele played largely as a second forward when he scored a goal or two for us, playing off Kane. For some reason though he was always compared statistically to midfielders like Giggs, Scholes, Lampard and Gerrard. Later in their careers both Lampard and Gerrard played further forward, but they were true midfielders earlier on. Dele should have been compared to Rooney, Owen and Fowler. When compared to these guys he is behind them, but he was then confined to being played as a deeper midfielder by Poch. This is when the wheels fell off. He needs a manager who trusts him in that attacking 10 role, but he needs a whole host of great players around him. When he is trusted to be the main man he has invariably faltered, just like last night and when Son and Kane were injured last season.
Straight swap with Marcus.
Whilst not defending him,at least Mourinho did say after the match that he is as much to blame as the players.He also added that his future decisions on playing personnel,based on last night’s performance,had become much easier.
On a serious note, there is no doubting how good Dele can be or has been. Sadly the ‘has been’ is going to stick because right now he is in danger of becoming exactly that. I think he needs a loan move in January to rediscover his form and confidence because something isn’t right with him psychologically.
The answer is simply ‘yes he did have a howler’.
We’ve certainly had some howlers under “The Special One”. Can’t argue with that.
This “I’ve never been a Dele Alli fan, on the basis that I support Tottenham, and want Tottenham to win”is just a nonsense. We may not have won trophies but we have won a lot of games with him in the side in the past and he has scored some hugely important goals – quicker to 50 than any of the modern England ‘greats’ and not just against poor sides. I’ll even agree with you that maybe his time at Spurs should come to an end in the next window but to imply that he’s somehow indicative of not winning anything, throughout his whole Spurs career, is disingenuous.
Of the four players that he removed from the pitch, three of them have come into the club since he was manager, or have signed permanent deals. Everyone is going on about Dele Alli but it’s the perfect deflection for those making excuses for Jose. It seems that whenever we lose all the blame is put squarely on the players shoulders and when we win its the transformative powers of Mourinho.
You can’t argue with Jose’s curriculum vitae, but this is a man who was sacked from his last two jobs and left both under a cloud. Just one reason that I find the notion that he might be beyond criticism as completely ridiculous.
Those who constantly make excuses for him are rapidly looking more like a cult rather than a rational section of the clubs support. He picked the team, set up the tactics, prepared them for the match yet nothing to do with him… what is this!? 😂
There’s enough balsa wood in our team to build a full scale glider.
Haha for some strange reason the more you watch that clip the worse the final cross becomes
Dele Ali is too slow to be a top player and is like an ageing pro who can’t beat his man anymore. If that’s Bale or Moura in that clip they take their man on and at least get to the byline.