Nuno Espírito Santo appeared to be following his orders like a good little coach, and Dele Alli was being selected continuously to play for Spurs, despite failing to achieve all that much was tangible. The Dele Alli apologists have been a loyal bunch, but after continuously going off the boil under every Tottenham manager he’s ever had, it appears that time is no longer on the young Englishman’s side.
Suddenly, the boy is 25, and the pitch side lines to the press about improving and ‘pushing on’ feel like we’ve heard them too many times before – and that’s because we have. As with too many other Spurs players, Alli is a player that ‘used to‘ play for his country – an always chilly indicator that an ace’s star is fading.
Paul Jiggins of The Sun makes a good point, that Dele might benefit from casting to one side his Spurs comfort blanket – as Jessie Lingard did when he moved on from Manchester United.
The problem is, what sort of money might ENIC demand for their one-time £5million investment?
Their clubs have rules we are not in their club. Thank god
While palace was simply a fuller for a n other mediocre set up, you highlight the point. Even there he would be down the pecking order and need to step uo, if he can
How can a 4 ft 9″ bald midget with Napoleon syndrome have such an effect on everybody? Is there nobody that can tell him to F off?
Couldn’t see him getting in past Gallagher.Plus they have Eze to come back.
Palace just done us 3-0.
If you’re a serious athlete you are always trying to improve, to add different skill sets to your game like Harry Kane or else you are standing still or worse going backwards and sadly fond as I am of Dele he’s going backwards.
I’d confiscate his computer games until his stats improve – going hardline on him now 😀
quite possibly the first intelligent thing Jiggins has said
Lingards loan spell did work wonders for him – realised wet spam was where he was at and upped his game. Perhaps Dele can have a loan spell with Palace