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Ex-Spurs Player Dele
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Ok so I don't mean to be chippy...but so Dele (an Everton player) is a 'Tottenham flop' yet the match winner wasn't former Spurs winger Georges Kevin N'kudu...hmmm
Dele Alli booed off after 28 minutes as Tottenham flop's career hits new low
Dele Alli's has struggled to find his best form over the last few seasons and it appears his difficulties have followed him to Besiktas after another frustrating evening of football.www.dailystar.co.uk
Dele Alli booed off after 28 minutes as Tottenham flop's career hits new low
Dele Alli's has struggled to find his best form over the last few seasons and it appears his difficulties have followed him to Besiktas after another frustrating evening of football.
Dele Alli has been hauled off by Besiktas manager Senul Gunes after playing just 28 first-half minutes.
The Everton loanee has endured a faltering start to life at the Turkish giants though was deployed against Turkish third division side Sanliurfaspor in the Turkish Cup.
However, after Besiktas conceded two goals in the first 15 minutes, Alli was dragged off before the half hour mark to an ear-splitting chorus of boos. And to make matters even worse for the ex-Tottenham flop, Besiktas seemed better off without him as they managed to turn everything around in the second half.
Besiktas went on to win the contest 4-2, courtesy of a brace from former Everton striker Cenk Tosun, a strike from Georges-Kevin N’Koudou and a late goal from Dutch World Cup hero Wout Weghorst. Alli was replaced by former Benfica midfielder Gedson Fernandez, who injected immediate pace, energy, and zip into the contest.
He even managed to provide the assist for Tosun’s second goal, which levelled the tie and swung all of the momentum back to Besiktas. Alli’s substitution is another damning indictment and example of the direction of travel his career has been heading in.
It also makes matters even worse that this humiliation comes one week after Besiktas sporting director Ceyhun Kazanci admitted they are not sure why Alli has not been able to rediscover his best form. “No one can answer whether Dele Alli can do it right now,” he said to TRT Sport.
“He is working very hard. He is a player who reached 100 million euros three years ago. He had a fall. Dele Alli is working intensively. We had intense talks with him before we signed him.
“Senol is famous for returning many players whose careers have been on the decline. We hope that he will be better in the second half of the season.”
Alli has contributed two goals in nine appearances for Besiktas in all competitions this season.
Haha it's ridiculous isn't it.Ok so I don't mean to be chippy...but so Dele (an Everton player) is a 'Tottenham flop' yet the match winner wasn't former Spurs winger Georges Kevin N'kudu...hmmm
If Dele Alli is Spurs fault, I'm claiming FULL credit for Nkoudou's goal and Gedson Fernandes' "immediate pace, energy, and zip".
The Turkish league doesn't try hard to shake off its Premier League retirement home reputation does it? Besiktas alone: Dele, Nkoudou, Gedson, Weghorst, Tosun, Saiss, Redmond. It's basically a sunny Burnley.
Edit: forgot Masuaku
Edit: forgot Masuaku
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Leaving us probably got to his mentals. We need to consider bringing him back in January for some MF reinforcement. He'll be cheap and I'm sure it would up his spirits. Then we'd have him back and when he came good we'd have another bargain. We all know he's got it in him and a season and a half of poor form shouldn't change that opinion. It's clear from our game vs Eve that he misses the place. He's only like 26 so he's got like 7 more years at the top potentially.
Get on it, Daniel! Bring our man back home.
Get on it, Daniel! Bring our man back home.
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Poch should never have coached the bastard out of him and he should never have changed his agent so early in his career.
Never understood why nobody could see through the jealousy of other clubs and media pundits complaining about Spurs finally having a player with that combination of flair, skill, and a bit of malice.
Unless it was all about the hanstrings and he just can't run anymore?
Never understood why nobody could see through the jealousy of other clubs and media pundits complaining about Spurs finally having a player with that combination of flair, skill, and a bit of malice.
Unless it was all about the hanstrings and he just can't run anymore?
These ungrateful fans need to wind their necks in. Don't they realize that he once scored a wonder goal for us at Palace? They've never had it so good so they should be a wee bit thankful. They are clearly showing their ignorance of the game because they are too focused on what he does on the ball instead of in the untelevised spaces. Real football fans understand it is there that the football actually occurs. And if they focused on those spaces instead of stupid stats they would see that they definitely have a top 6 PL standard player on their hands. Then they might find within themselves a bit of patience for this player as he needs more than 6 months to come good in a new culture. Give him a 6 year contract and the magic will appear.
This Besiktas thing isn't as bad as it has been painted by the media..... He wasn't the only 30mins sub so it was obviously a system re-set after a bad start for the TEAM.
Their manager has apparently also said that he knew that Dele required a hard-reset and that he is happy with Dele so far; that he is working hard and that they are both invested in him re-finding his form.
= MEDIA ARE CUNTS.
Their manager has apparently also said that he knew that Dele required a hard-reset and that he is happy with Dele so far; that he is working hard and that they are both invested in him re-finding his form.
= MEDIA ARE CUNTS.
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I don't think it's that he can't run anymore, more that he can't be bothered to run.
He’s being booed by the fans as an early substitute .. that sounds pretty bad. It’s even worse when you remember he’s playing in Turkey as a recent PL player & the expectations were that he’d be one of the better players there.
Instead it seems like he’s stinking the place up a bit, no matter what nice things the manager is trying to say.
It's rabid out there.... If the manager is seeing fit to make multiple 30min subs; they could booing anything or indeed everything in such a scenario.
I didn't watch the game so I'm not gonna attest to his performance; but the article is defo framed to make him (and to an extent us) look bad.
As for expectations; i don't think anyone is hiding from the fact that he was in a shit way when he arrived or suggesting it's all going smoothly.
As their gaffa said; he was well aware that he'd need a hard re-set when he signed him.... Essentially a 'project' signing. You don't buy a battered old car to restore and complain the paintwork looks shit and that it doesn't run as well as it might.
(FWIW he's scored 2 goals in 575 mins so far....... 6.3 x 90mins.)
I just think with alli hes stagnated. Burst on scene but over time hasn't remodelled his game as great players do. For me he started to lose plot at champions league final and threw toys out of pram on bench chucking shirt when poch subbed him. Was at that match. Still a bit gutted now we lost that.
That goal away at the goons was a thing of beauty
Me too. I’m still gutted. It’s the only chance we will more than likely have in our lifetimes to win a champions league final and we couldn’t do it. I’d have much rather played Barcelona that day than Liverpool. I knew before a ball was kicked we’d lose that match somehow rather than them winning it and that’s how it transpired.
We are winning it next year mate...its all good.
Issue with Dele was that he was a player who thrived on instinct. Kane and Eriksen got the best out of him in that regard because of how good they were at finding the space for him to run into.
When he was asked to do more, he showed us all he wasn't really up to it at an elite level. Injuries of course didn't help and I don't know enough about his private life to see what a hindrance that may have been.
A promising youngster but in hindsight, the signs are all there telling us he was never going to keep up that sort of output. Technically, he wasn't the best, didn't really have a good weak foot and was pretty slow on the ball. Lightning in a bottle strike for Dele between 2015 and 2017 but beyond that, he was reverting to what he was always going to be without superstars around him.
Sad.
When he was asked to do more, he showed us all he wasn't really up to it at an elite level. Injuries of course didn't help and I don't know enough about his private life to see what a hindrance that may have been.
A promising youngster but in hindsight, the signs are all there telling us he was never going to keep up that sort of output. Technically, he wasn't the best, didn't really have a good weak foot and was pretty slow on the ball. Lightning in a bottle strike for Dele between 2015 and 2017 but beyond that, he was reverting to what he was always going to be without superstars around him.
Sad.
Yeah. Evident whenever he was asked to play in the middle third, was a fish out of water generally. No awareness or football brain but get him into the final third quickly and he thrived
One goal/swallow does not make a season/summer!