What is up with Dele Alli?

[larrygobfiend]

Back at yer.

And yer bum chum who will no doubt be along shortly.

Is everything okay?

 

[Bedfordblue]

Is he still training with us? I find no announcement about it quite odd. If he’s fit, he should be playing (for whichever side he signs for.

He’s back on the grass but a way of being ‘fit fit’, what I call premier league fit.

 

[Toffeelover]

Should have got rid. Buggar you Dyche.

 

[Tree13]

And there you go again.

Blind hope eh? Flat Earth? Why the need to make out that anyone who sees things differently to you is in some way retarded? Unnecessary, and actually rather puerile.

If you took YOUR blinkers off for a second, you might just realise that you're completely missing the point I'm making. I'm not saying he's the answer. Better qualified people than you and I will make that assessment. If in the end they think it's flogging a dead horse, then I'll take their word for it, rather than yours.

Strawman much?

It was a simple question: what are you basing your belief on?

Telling that rather than argue the point by simply offering something to back up your opinion, you instead chose to attack the person asking the question.

PS at no point did I, or anyone else, call you retarded. Park your faux outrage elsewhere.

 

[Cels]

People on this forum cry out constantly for players with pace in this Everton side, yet people want to add a player who's lost his pace and has barely played in three years

It's baffling

He should be well rested and raring to go then

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[Damo_1878]

He should be well rested and raring to go then

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You're making me act out the Dumbledore gif again

 

[Cels]

You're making me act out the Dumbledore gif again

If I'm honest, I would like to see Dele get to a good level of fitness and mental health etc. and play for us at some point this season. But whatever happens, and whatever path he ends up taking, I will wish him the best and hope he doesn't slip back into his old destructive ways.

 

[Blue_Berry]

Strawman much?

It was a simple question: what are you basing your belief on?

Telling that rather than argue the point by simply offering something to back up your opinion, you instead chose to attack the person asking the question.

PS at no point did I, or anyone else, call you retarded. Park your faux outrage elsewhere.

Trumpesque mate.

There's none so blind....

 

[matty1878]

Should have got rid. Buggar you Dyche.

buggar
you dyche

 

[Damo_1878]

If I'm honest, I would like to see Dele get to a good level of fitness and mental health etc. and play for us at some point this season. But whatever happens, and whatever path he ends up taking, I will wish him the best and hope he doesn't slip back into his old destructive ways.

It all comes back to ths phrase

"We're a football club and a business, not a charity"

For me friend.

 

[allen]

One of those opinions is based on an assessment of what we have seen the player prove he can (or, more accurately, can't) do.

The other is blind hope.

It's a bit like those who insist the Earth is flat.

There’s nothing wrong with hoping for something.

It’s different to denying observable fact, as you imply in your final paragraph.

There’s a chance - however small - that Dele could offer something to this team. There’s no chance the earth is flat.

 

[Timbucktoo]

There’s nothing wrong with hoping for something.

It’s different to denying observable fact, as you imply in your final paragraph.

There’s a chance - however small - that Dele could offer something to this team. There’s no chance the earth is flat.

Did we not take that chance when we signed him in the first place? All we got in turn for two two years was excuses why he wasn`t ready to play, two years we took a chance on him and the closest he got to getting on the pitch was being a pundit on one of our tv games and watching a Spurs game.

 

[allen]

Did we not take that chance when we signed him in the first place? All we got in turn for two two years was excuses why he wasn`t ready to play, two years we took a chance on him and the closest he got to getting on the pitch was being a pundit on one of our tv games and watching a Spurs game.

We also got a game-turning second half performance against Crystal Palace in a pivotal game, showing there's a player in there still.

But we see what we want to see.

 

[Margarita]

Did we not take that chance when we signed him in the first place? All we got in turn for two two years was excuses why he wasn`t ready to play, two years we took a chance on him and the closest he got to getting on the pitch was being a pundit on one of our tv games and watching a Spurs game.

Wasn’t it genuine mental health issues due to childhood trauma and abuse rather than excuses?

 

[Timbucktoo]

We also got a game-turning second half performance against Crystal Palace in a pivotal game, showing there's a player in there still.

But we see what we want to see.

After which we got the 2 years of not performing which showed that the cameo performance versus Palace may have been the last sight of the player he might had been.