2022/23 Dele Alli

[Caolam]

Deli Ali is the personification of what has happened to our once great club. This owner/board has reduced us to a club that has to rummage around the bargain bucket to try and stumble upon a gem. We are reduced to buying severely damaged goods in the hope we can apply some sort of magic rub and all will be well. We do this with some convoluted payment method that ties us paying on the never never. BK once said that other Boards ask themselves “what would Everton do in a situation “ someone needs to explain to Bill that no other Boardroom would touch Deli Ali with a barge pole.
If it was just Ali you could overlook one mistake but we have been reduced to being rest home for the lame, the sick and the lazy.

 

[COYBL25]

Deli Ali is the personification of what has happened to our once great club. This owner/board has reduced us to a club that has to rummage around the bargain bucket to try and stumble upon a gem. We are reduced to buying severely damaged goods in the hope we can apply some sort of magic rub and all will be well. We do this with some convoluted payment method that ties us paying on the never never. BK once said that other Boards ask themselves “what would Everton do in a situation “ someone needs to explain to Bill that no other Boardroom would touch Deli Ali with a barge pole.
If it was just Ali you could overlook one mistake but we have been reduced to being rest home for the lame, the sick and the lazy.

We have been here before though - Gascoine, Hughes and Ginola, immediately spring to mind.

We took a big chance on a very broken Norman Whiteside all those years ago and the same with Lescot and Reidy.

Sometimes it comes off ( Lescot and Reidy ) other times it doesn`t.

If Alli had rediscovered his passion and love of football, it would`ve been hailed as a great deal, sadly it hasn`t worked out.

That`s just the way it goes sometimes.

 

[neil999]

Terrible signing, but we might not have stayed up without him last year......

 

[Toffe3m4n]

'Excited for the summer' according to his old MK Dons boss. Probably looking forward to an extended holiday in Dubai..

 

[The binman chronicles]

Was a gamble it never worked. Stopped bleeding jeez. Compared to what we paid and what the potential upturn might have been this was a deal worth taking. Never happened to work out.
Dele was 100m player 2 / 3 season previous, he could potentially been a 20 goal a season midfielder. It never worked out but you can see the thought process.
The cost was minuscule for the risk…
It looked like good odds, but the horse still never placed.
Our hands were tied with spending, this at the time looked a better spend than a maupay.
I’m not defending dele here, but I can understand the risk reward bet

These sensible posts aren't allowed, only ones full of hate filled emotion where you spew a load of bile in electronic form is. Thank you.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Deli says "Hi", whilst gaming with 6 year olds Turkish kids.....

Also says thanks for his new gaming rig

Footballer in having a hobby shocker. Da's outraged.

More of this at 11.

 

[sarath]

Just release him! What’s the issue??

Because then we'll have to pay out his contract

 

[DualityNSNO]

Because then we'll have to pay out his contract

No mate just release him

 

[COYBL25]

Footballer in having a hobby shocker. Da's outraged.

More of this at 11.

Playing golf > good.

Gaming > bad.

 

[Baines' left foot]

No mate just release him

Simples!!!

 

[twoblue]

Footballer in having a hobby shocker. Da's outraged.

More of this at 11.

It’s footballer bit that’s questionable

 

[The binman chronicles]

Terrible signing, but we might not have stayed up without him last year......

This is the point though, how much would you pay to beat the drop? Even if he ended up costing us 10-15 million in wages isn't that a good deal?

Yes we may have stayed up without him but I doubt we would have turned it around against Palace so we would have gone into the final day relying on other scores going our way. Again how much would you pay to not be in that scenario? In the end this isn't a success story but in general terms he did what we needed even though it was the absolute bare minimum.

 

[Paul Rideout]

We have been here before though - Gascoine, Hughes and Ginola, immediately spring to mind.

We took a big chance on a very broken Norman Whiteside all those years ago and the same with Lescot and Reidy.

Sometimes it comes off ( Lescot and Reidy ) other times it doesn`t.

If Alli had rediscovered his passion and love of football, it would`ve been hailed as a great deal, sadly it hasn`t worked out.

That`s just the way it goes sometimes.

you know what... it was worth the risk IMO. I'd do the same again with another fallen star who is still under 25 (at the time)

 

[ArtetaMoney]

He could have easily been our best player had Lampard managed to get a tune out of him, but he never. I very much doubt that Dyche will, either.

He'll probably end up back out on loan somewhere until his contract ends, or, he'll sit on the bench for the season.

 

[Rita_Poon]

you know what... it was worth the risk IMO. I'd do the same again with another fallen star who is still under 25 (at the time)

You kiddin'? The next fallen star that comes our way will be a giant asteroid...