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ComfortablyNumb

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Just reading some shit about Bale 'begging' Madrid to buy Alli. Made me think, would anyone here take £50m plus Isco for him. Just out of interest. I hope he stays for a long long time personally. But I reeeeeally like Isco.

Well, if he's desperate to play in the same side as Dele, there might be another way...
 

Pellshek

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Barney Ronay showing again why he's the greatest.

Dele Alli, Twitter loneliness and the cautionary tale of Renato Sanches

Among the many doomed and dreadful writing projects I occasionally pretend to be working on is a Bret Easton Ellis-style football novel about a hip, talented, existentially glazed and clueless wonderkid being passed around Europe’s super-clubs by the shady financial powers that run the world game.

The lead character is an interchangeable young star, probably Portuguese, called something generic like Rui Pinto or José Costa. Tattooed and glossed, garlanded with premature honours, his entire private and professional life is owned by a Gestifute-style talent agency. He wears sunglasses and huge headphones and speaks mainly in emojis, while being shuttled from elite subs bench to seven-star hotel, generating endless income without any noticeable interaction with the human world.

There might be a scene where Pinto-Costa finds himself alone with Cristiano Ronaldo as he pomades his eyebrows before a Champions League quarter-final and is reduced to a state of mumbling reverence in the glow of his celebrity. He buys apartments and cars in six major European cities and has a tabloid affair with a reality TV star he’s never met and who may be fictional, a typo in a magazine that got out of hand. Eventually he disappears somewhere between Beijing and Doha after forgetting his own name in the VIP lounge of an international airport.


...continued...
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ter-loneliness-cautionary-tale-renato-sanches
 

Dharmabum

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http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/05/1...-day-he-joined-tottenham-now-seem-incredibly/

And the 21-year-old's words on the day he moved to Tottenham now seem rather pertinent. Alli told Sky Sports:
“I’m so excited about taking the next step in my career with a fantastic club like Tottenham Hotspur. It’s going to be a great challenge for me and it’s one that I’m really relishing. Nothing would make me happier than to help the club reach the next level, which is where we belong."
 

Armstrong_11

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Juz wondering if anyone knows why he was carrying a pair of boots during the ceremony... Some contract agreement with Adidas?
 

mark87

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Juz wondering if anyone knows why he was carrying a pair of boots during the ceremony... Some contract agreement with Adidas?

Maybe he wanted to give his boots away at the end of the game by couldn't because of the invasion.
 

Armstrong_11

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Maybe he wanted to give his boots away at the end of the game by couldn't because of the invasion.

It looked like a new pair. Not sure. But it was during the ceremony. I was wondering if he was getting Davids' autograph. Haha.
 

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Dele looking forward to next season with us. Doesn't sound like he's off

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Couldn't wish for a better group of lads to have played the season with! Thanks to the fans! Let's make next season even better
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wirE

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"FIFA open disciplinary proceedings after gesture at wembley"

I think this is madness. How many times during a match does the ref get verbal abuse from the players and this one time incident from Alli makes FIFA open a disciplinary proceeding? He stated that this gesture was towards (insert snake emoji here) Walker and not the ref. Cameras didnt show to whom this gesture was towards. Alli apologies for the gesture and claimes it was a internal joke. End of

Utter and complete bullshit imo

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/4...bc_sport&ns_source=facebook&ns_linkname=sport
 

spursfan77

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They'll ban him. Evidence or no evidence. It's Fifa we are talking about here.

I just hope they don't ban him for our games. Couldn't give a shit about the England matches as we will qualify from the group anyway.
 

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I'm fairly certain it was an impetuous bit of stupidity from Dele, and the 'Kyle Walker bants' explanation sounds completely ridiculous.

That said, I'd love to see how Fifa are going to try and prove who the gesture was directed at. I'd also like to see how they'd justify any sort of additional punishment for Dele over the players who continuously swarm around the ref mouthing off in pretty much every game.
 

mark87

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Fifa will just say that you can't make that sort of gesture on the football pitch no matter who it is aimed at, even if it was friendly 'banter' and give him a ban.
 

dagraham

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I'm fairly certain it was an impetuous bit of stupidity from Dele, and the 'Kyle Walker bants' explanation sounds completely ridiculous.

That said, I'd love to see how Fifa are going to try and prove who the gesture was directed at. I'd also like to see how they'd justify any sort of additional punishment for Dele over the players who continuously swarm around the ref mouthing off in pretty much every game.

The problem is, whilst we know that players surround the ref and tell him to fuck off it's not always easy to pick up on camera. Whereas Alli was seen giving the ref the finger in full view in close up for about 10 seconds.

It might not be fair to single Alli out, but it just shows what a stupid thing it was to do.
 

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The problem is, whilst we know that players surround the ref and tell him to fuck off it's not always easy to pick up on camera. Whereas Alli was seen giving the ref the finger in full view in close up for about 10 seconds.

It might not be fair to single Alli out, but it just shows what a stupid thing it was to do.
You see it clearly multiple times a game.
 

BringBack_leGin

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What a load of bollocks, yes it was a bit daft but this is over sanitising the game to ridiculous levels. Why aren't the dozens of deliberate kicks which could have injure him not getting attention from FIFA? What about the multiple times when players hound the ref, verbally abuse the ref?

It was silly but if he gets a ban for this it'll be a disgrace. Fifa have their priorities all over the shop. If it wasn't a high profile young England star with big things predicted of his career this would not be an issue.
 

Japhet

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I'm fairly certain it was an impetuous bit of stupidity from Dele, and the 'Kyle Walker bants' explanation sounds completely ridiculous.

That said, I'd love to see how Fifa are going to try and prove who the gesture was directed at. I'd also like to see how they'd justify any sort of additional punishment for Dele over the players who continuously swarm around the ref mouthing off in pretty much every game.


It doesn't matter who the gesture was directed at. It's an offensive gesture while he's wearing an England shirt on TV all over the World. He really needs to grow up a bit and stop doing stupid things. As a caveat, I'd like to say that I don't find it offensive at all - in fact I couldn't care less, but I'm not part of the moral Police who patrol every aspect of modern life and throw their hands up at the slightest prompt.
 
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