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Player Watch: Dele Alli

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jurgen

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Wow.

The only midfielders to reach 20 Premier League goals quicker than Dele Alli (52 games) are Rafael van der Vaart (44) and Matt Le Tissier (50)

Both of whom were significantly older at the time and arguably in the peak years zone..
 

edson

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thinktank

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Admitted poast match that nothign right was happening with his feet but felt he could do everything with hishead tonight. lol Two top headed goals.

Could exploit his heading ability more by getting behind defenses more and getting in quality crosses.

Vic, Dele, Kane, Dier, Toby. some good headers of the ball we've got now. Need to make the most of set pieces and flank play.
 

Neon_Knight_

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He'll probably have his head turned in a couple years, but I'm not overly concerned about that because that means that he's doing well by us. Bayern, Real, or Barcelona will hover and we'll do well to fend them off, but if it happens, then it happens.

No way he goes to a club in England, though. Not a chance.

He's young and hopefully has the sense to know his career will benefit from more time with Spurs and Poch. If he does have dreams of playing for one of the big teams abroad, there is no rush for him to fulfil that any time soon. By that point, we could be winning enough trophies to stop anyone leaving, however ambitious they may be ;)

When we budgeted for the new stadium and last sold a star player, I doubt Lewis or Levy had anticipated such a big jump in TV money. We should be able to afford a greater net spend on transfers, whilst also paying off the stadium loans quicker than originally planned. Little or no financial pressure to cash in on Alli!
 

Neon_Knight_

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But Dele needs better coaching apparently.

Ramsey and Walcott both took over 100 games to score 20 PL goals have each only hit double figures in the league once (Alli has just made his tally twice, in case you had missed that).

In addition to outscoring Lampard and Gerrard combined, he has outscored Ramsey, Walcott and Wilshere combined. There's probably enough wiggle room left to add in a couple more of Arsenal's young "stars", to make it look even more impressive.
 
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