Noel Whelan has slammed Dele Alli for his inconsistency and his steady decline over recent seasons.
The midfielder had a rapid rise when he moved from MK Dons to Tottenham in 2015, but he has struggled in the last few years and has continued to be poor under Nuno Espirito Santo.
After a woeful 2020/2021, he was expected to make a good comeback in this campaign, but that hasn’t been the case.
The Englishman didn’t get much playing time last season, but increased game time hasn’t made him a better contributor to Tottenham’s success in this campaign.
Football Insider revealed yesterday that Tottenham was looking to finally cash in on him because he is a poor trainer and can be tough to manage for any Spurs coach.
Whelan has reacted to that development and claims that truly the midfielder has been a poor version of himself over the last two years and his decline has been steady.
“There’s no doubt that in the past two years he’s not been the Dele Alli that we saw when he first came to Tottenham,” the former Leeds United man told Football Insider.
“He was very much involved with everything that was good about Tottenham with his goals and the way he controlled that midfield area with his energy.
“Then all of a sudden it changed and over the last two and a half years he hasn’t quite been that fixed, permanent player in the Tottenham side.
“We’ve seen little flashes of him, but not consistently enough.”
Sorry but I can’t even get on board with the “energy” comments. He routinely gave us 30 minutes of effort and hung around for the rest of the game. Back then, it was enough to get quite a lot of goals, so many overlooked the other aspects of his performances, but he hasn’t been good enough for over 50% of his career here, and his decline shows no signs of stopping.
Get rid. We’ve been hoping far too long.
Noel Whelan, pundit is an oxymoron.
He just looks like Ruud Gullit’s wild oat but unfortunately, he doesn’t play like him.Levy should have agreed the loan deal with PSG, but inevitably, he overvalued him and now thinks by playing him regularly and putting him in the shop window that his value will increase whilst it is the opposite that is happening.Every time I watch him , I think he gets worse and less effective. Levy has done the same to Kane and as I mentioned in several post before, he will rue the day he did not sell Kane.
Should have gone 3 years ago, only interested in watches, attending parties, hunger has disappeared, no desire…..nothing!
Dele is utterly finished
“Noel Whelan slams…” And the world holds its breath……
If he wasn’t British he’d be long gone
Inconsistent? He’s consistently shocking and has been for years
He’s struggle to get back into the MK Dons side.
The sooner Dele goes to Newcastle the better for all of us…
All the training in Dubai or wherever it was, what was all that about?