Dele Alli at Everton
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littlemandefoe
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Selling Dele should be first on the list of players out. He's been so so poor for SO long now and we still may have a chance of getting £50 Mill + for him. Thanks for the memories, Dele but your attitude and effort stinks.
DiVaio
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Lol lol lol
wrd
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Care to elaborate with some examples to back up his attitude stinking? Care to elaborate with some data showing he doesn't put in effort.
Now I'm not one to staunchly call out a fellow Spurs Community member but when it comes to that statement I think you're full of shit and won't be able to back up that statement.
littlemandefoe
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littlemandefoe
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Ciao bello
wrd
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Yeah and im saying back your opinion up with evidence to support it. Otherwise it looks to me like you've plucked some cliches out the sky to justify your dislike of him. If you don't rate him fine, that's your opinion but I'm very very confident you'll never be able to back up this idea of him showing lack of effort and a poor attituds.
DJS
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To be fair I’d rather be old and uncool than dressing like those two!
Ankle-less socks or socks with shorts at ALL times!
DJS
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And Maddison now seems incapable of tucking in his fooking label or the white stringy bits to the sides.
State of him...
jpascavitz
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Dele hasn't even hit his "prime years" yet, he'd still be consider a great young signing if he wasn't with us for the last five seasons and we were looking at him on another side. He's always going to be a player that can be frustrating at times because he tries what others don't and I think every team needs a bit of that.
Think he'll have a great season next year rotating with Lo Celso as the attacking option in the midfield 3.
Think he'll have a great season next year rotating with Lo Celso as the attacking option in the midfield 3.
Gbspurs
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I think with Dele it's a classic example of people's expectations being the issue. Because his rise was so dramatic at such a young age people thought he was going to be a top 5 type player. Clearly he has settled into a lower category but still a very good player.
DJS
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Strange thing is with Dele as well is I’m sure for Milton Keynes Dons he played a little deeper yet was still scoring the goals (rather than more advanced as he has tended to do with us).
I also remember when we dominating Man Cit’s and beat them 4-0 him and Dier were the two sitting midfielders in a 4-2-3-1 and Dembele wasn’t on pitch so can’t even say he helped with ball retention.
Confidence and physical / mental well-being play a massive part and I think Dele has a lot more he can show, but he is in a slump at moment and if we were to pick a team he shouldn’t be a starting.
However, he should be a bench option and given opportunity through being subbed on with a decent amount of time to go and also squad rotation with league cup and Europa to be given a chance to play himself back into favour.
But he does need to lose the socks. They should be taken from him, by force of necessary. Preferably by Dier.
I also remember when we dominating Man Cit’s and beat them 4-0 him and Dier were the two sitting midfielders in a 4-2-3-1 and Dembele wasn’t on pitch so can’t even say he helped with ball retention.
Confidence and physical / mental well-being play a massive part and I think Dele has a lot more he can show, but he is in a slump at moment and if we were to pick a team he shouldn’t be a starting.
However, he should be a bench option and given opportunity through being subbed on with a decent amount of time to go and also squad rotation with league cup and Europa to be given a chance to play himself back into favour.
But he does need to lose the socks. They should be taken from him, by force of necessary. Preferably by Dier.
chrissivad
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Not sure about Dembele, but Toby as well.
Anyone who would get the ball up quickly for him to run onto.
Now players hold onto the ball too long, and cm just can't do anything.
I think we would see more from Dele, Son, Moura and Bergwijn if we can get better passers in cm and fullbacks.
wrd
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Which is why I don't think it's smart to write Dele off because if we get Lo Celso and Ndombele firing then Dele will benefit massively especially with regards to tanguys passing.
Eriksen checked out the last 12-18months so he gets a lot of stick, but we havent replaced his vision + passing ability (nor do I think it would be easy to, thats how good it was), and dele was there with the run, first touch and finish to capitalise a lot of the time.
Adam456
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Ha
Actually I have always been highly impressed by the way he comes across in interviews and his professionalism in general (give or take the odd silly prank) but channels his mean streak into winning on the pitch. So many footballers of his age are absolute morons
He's just gone a bit crap. Let's hope he de-crapifies himself ASAP
HedgieSpur
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Nobody hates him imo, its just a stick some fans use to beat others with in order to prove how much of an user fan they are. Some of them appear to believe that they are the arbiter of what a "proper" fan is
JUSTINSIGNAL
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I don't understand this mentality. During Roy Keane's era most players were borderline alcoholics, Keane has even admitting that himself. Hardly comparable to a Dele being snapped in garish clothing.
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