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You're being unfair on Alli here. He's a risk taker, whereas we've not seen that in Winks yet. Different positions, and requirements from the coach, yeah. But Alli thinks and sees pretty well in finding and using space in the last third, where options are much more limited than in the midfield mix.
I don't get why you think I'm not acknowledging that, as that's what I'm saying. I don't think Winks would produce anything like Alli does in the final third, and I don't think Alli would produce the metronomic qualities that a team needs that Winks does in the middle third.
Alli is more about explosive moments, but will contribute much less in terms of volume, build up and game play, Winks will see miuch moe of the ball and contribute much more to the structural game play but just wouldn't be able to produce what Alli does as an auxiliary forward.