Ok, can we judge him on the last 5 or so years of his career, when he’s been absolute turbo crap?
I’ve said it many times in here and I’ll say it again: The proportion of his career in which he was (admittedly, very) good is now in the minority. We really need to knock it off with the “there’s a player in there, somewhere” approach to signings. Otherwise, let’s bring in Barkley and Drinkwater and keep our fingers crossed they can randomly undo all the declining they’ve been doing over a similar period to Dele and somehow become useful again just because the fans REALLY want them to.
Dele Alli is crap. In my humble opinion, he will never again in his career be good enough to play in the Premier League. There’s a reason, as there always seems to be with our recent signings, that nobody else at this level was in for him and that’ll be the same reason we can’t shift him until his contract is up. I’ve never felt safer from vaulting than with this declaration.