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.