Yesterday was Dele’s longest time on the park since way back on 24.02.2021 against Wolfsberger AC in the Europa League. We got 80 minutes from the attacking midfielder against the Blades yesterday. It was a performance that saw Dele playing in his most suited role.
When it came to the overarching discipline of total actions which were successful, then we saw a relative improvement with 66%, but the boy’s mean average is 58.7%, which isn’t good enough anyway.
I take a view that Dele Alli will be found out (again) sooner or later. Just as night follows day. Or as Dime Bar follows Double Decker.
Unfortunately I don’t think that is going to happen in the short term if ever….I watched him play on Sunday and was very frustrated especially the numerous times when he lost the ball to a Sheffield player, instead of chasing the player and attempt to regain possesion (like Lucas Moura would do) he started jogging as if to say that it was not his fault losing the ball and let someone else retrieve it…Jose was right about him and his ATTITUDE BEING LAZY.
Dele did Dele, he strolled about and continues with the flicks and tricks which the majority of time fail. It’s why Mourinho was so frustrated with him.
Thought he looked all right donning the Ruud Gullit look, his brightest game for a long long time (and yes, I get it, that’s not saying much!)
If Mason can get him appearing interested again, then he (Mason) has a future as a good coach. If he can make Bale, Kane, Son and Alli all click together for the last five games and squeak a CL spot, then… well, who knows!
Its no shock he was at his best when Walker & Rose were flying…. those two pushed opposing full backs & midfieders back leavjng loads of space in the middle of the park to exploit that he & Eriksen used to excel at….. when those two fullbacks left/fell out of favour the replacements were not on the same level & so finding space in the middle & playing cute passes became 10x harder hence imho why the form of both Alli & Eriksen fell off a cliff, which ultimately led to Poch dismissal, and to a large extent a more containing style of play against the better teams. I don’t think Alli in current guise is a premiership player & of course he doesnt have the work ethic every team in the premiership demands.
Does Mason has a way? hahaha it is news to me, is it Dele Dier Winks triangle oh my badness Mason came and he don’t want to see Ndombele near the team may be he thinks Ndombele was Mourinho’s darling lol why people were blaming then Mourinho when he couldn’t see Dele and Winks and co.
I take the view that Mason is playing him to increase his resale value in the summer… 🤔😏..having said that his form & work ethos have nose dived for the past 3 years. It seems to me like he’s lost his hunger or desire to improve .. the worst part about it is the medias constant obsession with him. The best thing we could do is to reunite him with Poch at PSG ..
Hear hear.
He can don a blonde wig and call himself Marilyn for all I care. As long as he puts in a proper shift in our shirt.
Nice new ‘do’.
The tv coverage of yesterday’s game kept showing Alli closeups that had nothing to do with anything other than his new hair style. That pretty much sums him up, a triumph of style over content. His technical deficiencies are now at least being more widely recognized but there is apparently some reluctance to question why he has done nothing to correct them over the last 5 years. The uncomfortable truth is that he thought he had made it after becoming an England regular and appearing on tv ads with Messi and co. It all came too easy.
It doesn’t look “ridiculous to his generation
It all seems too much like the time we sacked AVB and brought in Sherwood. The gloom is lifted, we beat a few sh-t clubs, and then get our pants pulled down by any decent opposition.
Dele has to go. If (and that’s a big IF) we could get Bale back for about 100-150K per week, I would take him. It’s useful to have a pub team slayer, just not on the salary he currently commands.
It’s all so predictable. Now that Mourinho has gone, we are going to go back to the Spurs style of football and Alli and Bale will be reborn. The only thing they have in common are ridiculous obsessions with their hair and the sooner they are both gone, the better.
I just don’t get how the same people who saw through Jose’s act (he’s not a winner anymore, just a big bad guy) on day 1 continue to get conned by the now 25-year-old Dele Alli.
He contributes nothing, yet the Spurs pages on social media are full of blabbing about the “Ryan Mason way”, and that he’s playing Dele, Bale and so on and so forth. “Dele just needs playing time” – to do what exactly? He’s shown us everything he’s got and should leave and take Winks and Dier with him.
Absolute waste of space and should have loaned or sold him to PSG in the January window. One of the wasters we need to get out of the club and to cap it all, he now looks ridiculous
In my opinion Dele is a squad player and a good one for 5mil. Sadly hype in the early days has been a hindrance not a help. Clearly has talent but not enough going on between the ears to take advantage of it. A Lingard-esq resurgence isn’t beyond him but like Lingard at United, I can’t see it happening at our club.
I think most people have a misunderstanding of Dele’s role. His is a pressing forward. If you check his pressures per 90 stats, his are in the 99th percentage, it’s pretty incredible.
Sadly he doesn’t always join this invaluable skill with technical excellence, probably because he didn’t go through an elite academy, but who knows.
If you want a high pressing system however, Dele is you man. But the penalty you may pay is his erratic technical skill.
Dele Ali… stealing a living as a footballer since 2019