It’s been non-stop at Tottenham over the past few weeks. The Amazon series, All or Nothing has provided a frightening amount of insight, especially in respect of Danny Rose and Dele Alli, players who had been absolute firm fan favourites, prior to the broadcast.
Danny Rose came across appallingly, a man without even the faintest glimmer of cognizance in him, and Dele Alli chuckled as he was called lazy in front of the rest of the squad. As far as the boy’s deeper thoughts on chocolate bars and teeth brushing, it’s probably politer not to discuss them again.
I’m given to understand from a source close to the club that predictably, Dele Alli didn’t see the head on collision with José Mourinho coming, and feels genuinely confused about his world being tipped upside down.
It’s been suggested that Levy would be looking for £70million for Dele were the player was to be sold, but at this stage in the pandemic, the market has not rippled with excitement at the number.
My source believes Spurs are keen to move the now 24-year-old on, as his use to José is limited. The gaffer told talkSPORT ahead of the still yet to be confirmed League Cup game against Leyton Orient this evening, ““And that’s the situation at this moment. He will play Tuesday, he needs to show how good he is.” For Dele, this is surely his ‘sandwiches wrapped in a road map’ moment.
Pointless him being at the club now.
no messin about
As long as we can get somebody to compete with Kane, not a geriatric on a downward curve.
It’s entirely possible that the lad has peaked. Having siad that he peaked bloody high so the talent is hiding inside him somewhere. Or perhaps he’s sensitive soul who has let the whole Pochettino exit thing get into his head. Maybe he sees Mou as an usurper or something. Mind you Mou gave him plenty of opportunities to shine when he first arrived. Perhaps the “your Dele’s brother” thing got to him, we’re all made up differently and perhaps he took it in the wrong way. Who knows what goes on inside Dele’s head?
Would dele do well in a fresh challenge? YES. should he go abroad? YES. shamrock rovers.
Milik can come. Good two footed finisher plus the poles on the plot will be happy.
🎼we’ve got deleeeee
Laaaazyyy deleee
I don’t really know if I’m right in saying this but could it be Dele’s hunger (and/or anger) was driven from a feeling he had a point to prove to the world and now feels that he’s done that so his motivation has evaporated?
It sounds like Diallo is gagging to join the mighty Spurs but I wouldn’t mind the Dutch workhorse for a Plan B. Six foot 6 – you couldn’t miss it. Or as Mae West once remarked to a young man, “Never mind the 6 feet, let’s talk about the six inches”
Yes he’s been largely disappointing but I’m wary of righting him off just yet. I think it might be a confidence issue, it’s not that uncommon. I’d point to Benteke as another one who lost his way. Zaha had an off season last year by his standards too. Trouble is Dele is a bit of a one trick pony and as you say defences just bully him off the ball or mop him up after a poor first touch. I think he misses Eriksen big time who used to plant perfect passes on to his head or fast ones to his feet.
Can be hard to solve though as you can’t train it out of them. Perhaps a spell at a lower level might bring it back?
Yep, I get you. If only I knew then what I know now.
Moving on from regular top 4 to scraping into the ropey courtesy of Chelsea. I hope this season we will get back to moving on following the arrival of Bale and Reg.
Spurs back in the hunt again for A Milik or is it Weghorst,Vinicius,Diallo or Willian Jose. Milik sounds positive due to his contract running down and Napoli needing to recover some of the money they have paid for their new striker.Moves to Juventus & Roma looking less likely now.
Yep, agree 100%…
I’m sure we have all worked with them – lads with plenty of talent and no application. I’ve had a few, they are all like ‘yes boss, you’re right boss, I know I can do better boss, just watch me boss’ and then 2 days later you see them wasting time on Facebook all afternoon.
In fact I was one in my 20s, and I sure as hell know that when he gets to 40+ he’s gonna look back from his multi-millionaire’s high chair and think ‘I could have been a legend’.
Unfortunately there’s just no telling some people.
Very fair summation.
I think part of the issue might also be that, after his break-out season, opposition teams worked out how to neutralise him and he didn’t have a counter to it. He can’t really shield or hold up the ball and can be easily out-muscled and dispossessed )usually ending up on his bum looking at the ref) or the ball bounces off him due to a loose first touch. Now Jose’s applied the blow torch, Dele needs to decide what he wants to do.
There is a good footballer in there somewhere. The one before Poch got in his ear about his temper and doused the fire. I feel his main issues are his laziness because he’s been allowed to get away with it and his extracurricular activities are getting more of his attention to the detriment of his football. Dele needs to understand that he hasn’t ‘made it’ yet and if he doesn’t have a major paradigm shift he never really will. Get back to the basics and execute them accurately, cut out the low percentage ‘spectacular’ stuff, get serious about your fitness and work hard. Use Harry and Gareth as your role models and imitate what they do to succeed. Then we’ll have the old Dele back, the one the fans feel in love with.
My main reservation is he would no doubt play better in a team doing well playing with high confidence. When we’re ticking as a unit he can be the player to score out of nothing. If that sounds like the definition of a luxury player then I guess that’s the corner he’s backed himself into.
We saw how effective Lamela was coming from the bench being an impact sub against the Saints at the weekend – how would Alli feel being given a similar role in the squad at his age? I think he’d react poorly most likely…and I’m even more certain that Jose is expecting this reaction.
He could be the next ‘toys out of the pram’ Danny Rose only arriving at that point 6 years younger.
He needs to go somewhere and rebuild his confidence and winning mentality away from the limelight. He was too readily picked and took it too much for granted week in and week out. Now he’s had a bit of a jolt as there is a manager who is not frightened of dropping anybody, including the stars. Hopefully he can rebuild his career with us as a more rounded and mature player one day.
I wouldn’t mind if he went. His best position is 10 and Harry ably demonstrated on Sunday how bad Dele is at it. He just doesn’t offer enough in general play. I don’t hate the lad, it’s just Spurs are moving on — and it seems he isn’t.