Dele Alli has never been my cup of tea, that’s no secret.
The irritation began with fans cooing over a player that essentially only joined in for 30 minutes per game.
Then came the incessant reminders of his age. The broken home sob story was wheeled out.
Of course there’s been the constant imbecilic finger trick nonsense.
In his favour we got a steady trickle of goals and assists. Which has now dried up.
In the four seasons he’s been with us goals scored per season in order were 10, 18, 9, and 5 in this current return,.
Then there’s the injuries. Which I don’t care about. Everything is someone’s fault. Is he not looking himself, not concentrating or just been over used? Or is he hiding?
I don’t care because I just want results, not a back story. I’m happy to watch him do his best, but I don’t want to adopt him.
I’m not alone here, by the way.
Gus Poyet was on talkSPORT, more than hinting that Dele’s Instagram, the girlfriend, the clubbing, the sponsorships etc all need to take more of a back-seat.
Ruud Guillit told beIN Sports that technically Alli was ‘so bad’ against Ajax.
I’m bored with excuses, the kid is going backwards and it isn’t good enough.
The Jesse Lingard Tribute Act needs to buck his ideas up.
We’re in decline, I would suggest, something which even the Levyologists may come to realise next season.
Can’t really add to that, Paul, bang on! Levy our six million pounds a year bungler. As for Dele, yes too much of a celebrity now – except on the PITCH where he is practically anonymous!
So i’m wondering how all the Flat Earthers and Levyologists who have been spouting their particular brand of rationalist reverse snobbery all this time can defend the last weeks football chez THFC bowl? According to them this was the part of the ride we were meant to sit back and enjoy n’est pas? This is the bit where us round earth anti-Levy types would be proved wrong and the true magnificence of what Levy has been ‘building’ all this time would be fully revealed..
A (self) injury ravaged side tiredly embarrassing themselves against a local rival with zippo atmosphere and then having their pants pulled down on the world stage in the semi-finals of the ‘Champions’ league whilst badly playing hoofball to the big lump up front. All in a brand new toilet bowl bought entirely with debt, that nobody wanted or asked for.
Amazeballs, they were right all along.
Addendum: Our team and vast majority of our players playing far less coherently and well below the level we were at two years ago, lost more games this season than the last two combined, for buttons sold a valuable and much loved midfielder that could have done an extremely valuable job for us right around now and unceremoniously shipped him out with not so much as a thought of a testimonial. Didn’t even think to replace him or bring anyone in in January (after becoming the first club in history not to buy any players in the previous Summer transfer window) when we still had a sniff of a proper title challenge and right before injuries started pilling up. Hacked off several of our best players with shabby contract negotiations. Rushed back players from injury and overplayed others to the point of injury and fatigue. Badly fumbled the toilet bowl project and the opening night. Banned the use of White Hart Lane, upped the season ticket prices to eye watering levels, jesus it actually never ends.
What was that we were building again? What ride am i meant to be enjoying? What is it that i’m not seeing??
As is the case with this team’s regression as a whole just now, the ultimate reason for Dele’s ineffectiveness can be traced back via the long and winding road through January to last August.
New season commences with no rest for first teamers, not one reinforcement purchased. Dembers then shipped out for loose change.
Inevitabe fatigue catches up with overplayed midfielders and injuries occur. Dele’s rehab on his hamstring cut short and he’s rushed back into action in central midfield. Breaks wrist. So now finds himself playing massive games semi-fit, without confidence in his body, in an unaccustomed role alongside another long term absentee, big Vic.
Poch set up all wrong to deal with ajax at the start last night. But as i said on here yesterday, if he and the lads do end up falling short blame should be directed exclusively at a hugely celebrated and self-satisfied entity and its executive decision making through last summer and January.
Dele
Trippier
Erikson
Wanyama
Lamela
Hugo
Dier
Rose
Every single one of these players has regressed to be a worse player now than they were two years ago. That is an unarguable fact.
Sissy, Foyth and Sanchez have improved
Moura, Aurier, Davies have flat-lined.
Progress? What progress? What have we built?
For all his great previous seasons with us, he’s the one high profile player that we have I’d be happy to cash in on this summer. He’s still young so I don’t think it’s outrageous to think we’d get 70+mil him as he is a brand, ?.
That would get us a very good Julien Weigl, Divock Origi and probably Ziyceh from that mob last night. More bodies to add to the squad but more importantly upgrades on what we have in reserve.