Tottenham is reluctant to allow Dele Alli to leave the club this month because of the injury to Giovani Lo Celso.
Alli hasn’t been in the first-team picture at Tottenham for much of this season, and this month offers him the chance to change teams.
PSG is one team with a strong interest in his signature, but Mail Sport says Spurs are worried about being short of options in their midfield if they allow Alli to leave.
Lo Celso is yet to recover from the injury he picked up against Leicester City last year, and Alli is one of the few players that the club can turn to when any of their current starters becomes unavailable.
He needs to play often in this second half of the season because he wants to be a part of the England squad for the Euros later this year.
However, the report says Levy isn’t willing to sanction a January transfer for him while Lo Celso is unavailable.
Alli looked back to his best in Tottenham’s 5-0 win over Marine in the FA Cup and Jose Mourinho even confirmed that the Englishman is now back in his plans.
He was, however, dropped for the next game against Fulham in the Premier League.
The midfielder has been silent about his current predicament, but he will be keen to his career back on track, either with Tottenham or at another club.
Man City are the only club with a better goals allowed record than Spurs this season. Dier has been at the center of that defense throughout, so maybe Jose was on to something?
John, you are right Dele is neither of those things, I would struggle to pigeon hole him into any of the other normal footballer categories. But he was a special player who made a difference in many of the games he played. Maverick?
Perhaps JM sees him as a luxury player who is a bit of a liability and who doesn’t do too much when we don’t have the ball. Glen Hoddle suffered to some extent with the same perception.
By what yarstick Bruce,do you measure that Dele was back to his best against Marine?They are an eighth tier semi-pro outfit and were never seriously a threat to us.He didn’t score any of the goals and once again was subbed off on 65 minutes.
I think Mourinho is being economic with the truth when he praised him afterwards.If he really is in his plans why not let him get minutes under his belt.
I think whilst LoCelso coninues to be the new sicknote,Dele is being used as a pawn and won’t see a move this month which would probably afford him more game time.He can kiss the Euros goodbye.
Hope Lo Celso is not auditioning for the role of Erik Lamela replacement ie more time in the treatment room than on the field.
Very Interesting .
Oh and one of the “defenders” he desperately wanted at Utd was Dier, should have started alarm bells ringing.
Celly. Fix up your fitness son. No rushing back.
Yep you’re right, if Dele isn’t being brought on to save the day against Fulham, when we’re all out of ideas in midfield, then I don’t see when he’s ever going to get game time in the PL. A few runouts in early stages Europa and FA cup ties isn’t exactly what Ali will be interested in I wouldn’t have thought.
What kind of player does Mou actually want to take us to the next level, surely not another defender!? He had the same problem at Utd.
If we can get the price we want for Alli surely we let him leave and promote from youth if we can’t sign a replacement.
He clearly has no future under Jose and his value might drop further.
Clearly, Ali is not a midfield player who can dribble past defenders and he most certainly is not a ball winner.
But he can do things the four midfielders couldn’t do if they had all night on the pitch. That is score goals.
He has a football brain and makes great runs into space something those picked by Mourinho don’t do.
I also believe that Mourinho was a fault for Spurs not winning more matches at home. The game went Flat and needed substitutes to be made sooner.
So, Mr Levy perhaps you can have a word with Mourinho about blaming everyone but himself.
If that is the case then it makes his non appearance in the second half against Fulham even more bizarre. If Lo Celso had been fit then he would have come on for Ndombele for sure in the second half so why not bring Deli on then?