2021/22 Dele Alli

[davids]

does the loan end on 30 June?

Isn't it some weird fee when he's played so many games deal.

 

[Bluestar]

does the loan end on 30 June?

It’s not a loan. We have signed him.

There are payments based on appearances.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

162 pages in and still people don’t understand he’s an Everton player

 

[Joey66]

Isn't it some weird fee when he's played so many games deal.

Yep 40 million BK overseen the deal .....

 

[coollino]

That was a joke, there lol

 

[kiss the crest]

Another mistake after another

 

[Clarky cat]

Another mistake after another

Don’t give up pal. Keep trying, you’ll get better

 

[Groucho]

Isn't it some weird fee when he's played so many games deal.

£32m and 25p, a Rolling Stones LP and a sack of Cyprus spuds.

That’s after 15 and a half games and 80 training sessions I think.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Ours or not he's desperate to go home to Spurs. Almost feel like he's been sent to us for misbehaving.

 

[MikeH72]

Isn't it some weird fee when he's played so many games deal.

It’s not a loan. We have signed him.

There are payments based on appearances.

@Nymzee gold stars for these guys

 

[Nymzee]

@Nymzee gold stars for these guys

Think we’re finally getting through to them.

 

[MikeH72]

Ours or not he's desperate to go home to Spurs. Almost feel like he's been sent to us for misbehaving.

No he actually is ours.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

No he actually is ours.

Are you suuure tho..

 

[chuffy]

Ours or not he's desperate to go home to Spurs. Almost feel like he's been sent to us for misbehaving.

Thing with Dele is that he's not any random player. He's kind of a very specific number 10 type, or a 'trequartista'. He isn't a striker, and isn't a CM, and works best when he's able to make runs from deep in tandem with another player.

So far he's had a few cameos in a broken team that's been on its arse. Before that, he was arguably in a few formats of a broken spurs team playing counter-attack. Neither of which are particularly good environments for him. Hopefully Frank will sort out the team and playing style and he'll suddenly click. Lots of players are like this, and they're just not suited to certain types of play.

The situation is like the last England competition he was in where I think Southgate put him in as a DM and he looked completely lost, having been magic beforehand. Not all managers are willing to have that kind of 'chaos/free' role type player, and Conte certainly is one where he seems to like players to play from a script that he writes, as opposed to your Pochettino system where he wants players to take more responsibility for that themselves (which leads to Neymar, Messi, and Mbappe deciding they'll have tea parties on the half way line when they don't have the ball).

 

[Neiler]

Looking forward to really using him next year.