Player Watch: Dele Alli

[Cornpattbuck]

His general play was bloody fantastic today and he was looking for Kane at every opportunity. Blinding player already.

 

[St José Dominguez]

Swear sometimes he uses game time to practice certain things. Today was the scooped pass over heads of defence day. He's becoming more and more involved in the game as every month passes, kid has the world at his feet. He can be as good as he wants to be.

 

[DCSPUR]

he said something interesting about the future. I think he could leave in summer 2020 (after the first season at the new stadium) BUT if we win the title that year he could stay, and for a long time....only time will tell. Let's enjoy him while we can!

PS my kid is 2 and a bit and pretty much has the Dele Alli song down pat!

 

[phillipjpalmer]

Dele is getting better and better.
For the last 15mins he dropped deeper and had the confidence to start dictating play, which at his age is incredible.
If we could get another goalscoring midfielder with a bit of craft I would be happy for dele to play the dembele role against teams who park the bus.
It would allow him to make those late runs into the box and give us more goalscorers on the pitch.

 

[matthew.absurdum]

I think he dropped a lot deeper yesterday. Maybe to fill the hole left by eriksen. Not significant, but still move the ball well

 

[Luka Van der Bale]

he said something interesting about the future. I think he could leave in summer 2020 (after the first season at the new stadium) BUT if we win the title that year he could stay, and for a long time....only time will tell. Let's enjoy him while we can!

PS my kid is 2 and a bit and pretty much has the Dele Alli song down pat!

Have another look at your maths there lad.

 

[rambu]

Why pay £30/40/50m for a player we know isn't very good, certainly isn't good enough for the standard we aspire to, Is already past the age of realistically making significant improvement, and will sit on the bench until such time as Dele actually does leave (which could be five years from now)?

Surely we'd be better off both waiting until we actually need to deal with Alli leaving as an issue, and when we do look at that point for either the next promising young potential or probably better - look abroad?

If there's some truth to the rumors, which both JJ and trix think there's some in it, then maybe Poch thinks he can still improve him enough to be good.

I disagree completely on the point of getting a replacement only when it's needed - it's always better to have someone ready to step in when the starter's leaving, for both obvious financial and team transition reasons. Price certainly would play a part of it, as it won't be low risk anymore if we are talking about 30/40/50 mil for Barkley - but I'll be for it if it's around 25 mil.

 

[Kiedis]

Loved the way he dropped deeper and kept the ball ticking against Leicester. Was afraid he had somewhat lost the midfielder in him and was all about goals and assists these days. Good to see that he hasn't.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Despite his eye for goal, I've always thought his future lies deeper than where he currently plays... More box to box.

 

[thelak]

I agree, money clearly plays a part with any player but the motivation behind a move like that is world recognition, a career with a club with a history of trophies (even though not many recently but still, a champions league trophy nonetheless.)

We have a long way to go before the football media, the supporters or the players see us on the same level as Real Madrid as a club, that's not to say it will never happen but this team will be long gone before we have the pulling power of a team like that.

Even if Madrid failed to win a trophy for the next 10 years straight their name alone would have more pull than ours (unless of course we suddenly turn into a side that wins multiple PL titles and a Champions league when we get our new stadium.)

I am just trying to be as realistic as possible when I say that, I dislike Real Madrid as a club but to think a player would pick us over them is pure delusion at best, I think even Kane would be tempted quite frankly and he loves spurs, he might be the only one that would stay at spurs but even then I think that would be dependant on if we were winning things.

I am not going to begrudge players who move, as long as they do so respectfully and do so with the knowledge that we will have some benefit from it and be able to try and replace their worth to the side, I don't think any team in this league could stop a player moving to Madrid.

I get the idea of wanting to play for Madrid in theory but then you look at their obnoxious fans with their white hankies booing Ronaldo (as much of a tool as he is) and there must surely be some players who think twice about playing for such a bunch of ungrateful and entitled fans

 

[millsey]

Despite his eye for goal, I've always thought his future lies deeper than where he currently plays... More box to box.

Nope. His entire strength are his runs into the box and his ability to be in the right place right time. That will be of no use deep in our own half. Stick to what he's best at. The guy is a complete superstar and when he does leave us, will be for a world record fee and then some

 

[Gb160]

I get the idea of wanting to play for Madrid in theory but then you look at their obnoxious fans with their white hankies booing Ronaldo (as much of a tool as he is) and there must surely be some players who think twice about playing for such a bunch of ungrateful and entitled fans

They're shit fans no doubt, but lets not pretend all of ours are all angels.
One of our best players was hounded out of social media due to abuse from our own fans.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Nope. His entire strength are his runs into the box and his ability to be in the right place right time. That will be of no use deep in our own half. Stick to what he's best at. The guy is a complete superstar and when he does leave us, will be for a world record fee and then some

By Box to box I didnt imply a deep lying player. Just that I think there's more to come from him than just in behind the striker. I'm expecting an all round midfielder by the time he's 25.

 

[thelak]

They're shit fans no doubt, but lets not pretend all of ours are all angels.
One of our best players was hounded out of social media due to abuse from our own fans.

Big difference between morons on the internet and being booed in the stadium by your own fans when you are playing - and those are genuine fans that have paid to be in the stadium to watch. Lots of lose cannons in twitter

 

[nattydredd]

The lad is pure class...and he's gonna be even better next year.

 

[DJS]

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...after-defenders-figured-him-out-a3546201.html

Yet Alli believes Tottenham do not need to be too active in the market. He argued: “With the players we’ve got here, we don’t need to go out and spend loads of money. There is a good bunch of players here. Everyone is determined, everyone works hard and there is a lot of quality in the team.
“It is important we stick together, keep working hard and keep improving. We have to take our form from the end of this season into next season, and start even stronger. Then, if we can finish as well as we did this season, we should be OK.”

 

[ClintEastwould]

 

[Chris Finch]

Was in the Fox and hounds in Stony Stratford on Monday watching the play off final.
Bloody lovely guy tbh

 

[Pizza]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/06/09/dele-alli-will-leave-tottenham-think-time-right/

 

[The Scarecrow]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/06/09/dele-alli-will-leave-tottenham-think-time-right/

That was one hell of a misleading url.