Dele Alli back in the UK with his season likely over
Updated Dele Alli has returned to England with his largely unproductive loan spell at Besiktas over after he picked up a hip injury that will likely sideline him for the remainder of the season.
The 26-year-old still had a few games remaining on his loan with the Turkish club but, as Sky Sports News's northwest correspondent, Alan Myers, first reported last Friday, he flew back to the UK to undergo tests on the injury he sustained recently.
Dele faces an uncertain future as he heads into the final year of his contract with Everton, a situation not helped by his poor form and the emergence of photographs purportedly taken in Manchester this weekend of the former Tottenham Hotspur and England sensation with a balloon in his mouth and surrounded by canisters of laughing gas.
If the images are deemed conclusive and Everton regard the inhalation of nitrous oxide as a form of recreational drug use, it could put Dele's contract with the club in jeopardy.
The Blues signed Dele on transfer deadline day in January last year on a complicated deal with initially moving to Goodison Park for free, with staggered payment clauses based on pre-agreed appearance milestones.
Everton are due to pay Spurs a £10m instalment once he makes 20 appearances for the club, with the final tally reported in some places as being as high as £40m if all clauses are triggered.
To date, Dele has played 13 times for the Toffees but the chances of him reaching that first threshold of 20 games are thought to be remote. He would be ineligible to play for Everton this season as he is not registered with the Premier League as being a member of the club's playing squad for 2022-23.
The ex-MK Dons prodigy's form has nose-dived since its zenith in 2018 when he starred for his country in the World Cup in Russia and reached the final of the Champions League with Spurs under his mentor Mauricio Pochettino.
The player's appetite for the game has been questioned over the last of years and he struggled to make any impact at Besiktas, attracting open criticism from his manager in Turkey despite arriving in Istanbul to a hero's welcome from supporters. It is unlikely that he will return to Besiktas this season.
It is expected that Everton will try and find a new loan option for Dele to, perhaps, make one last attempt at reviving his career but face paying wages reportedly far in excess of £100,000 a week if they can't offload him this summer.
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2 Posted 07/04/2023 at 19:28:44
3 Posted 07/04/2023 at 19:32:10
Now we are just waiting on Gbamin and to see if Tarashaj manages to rise once again.
4 Posted 07/04/2023 at 19:59:56
Well, you've read something completely different to me, cos I read that Lille wanted to buy Gomes permanently as apparently he's been outstanding for them this season.
And there has also been interest from Portuguese and Spanish clubs.
5 Posted 07/04/2023 at 20:21:40
6 Posted 07/04/2023 at 20:42:23
7 Posted 07/04/2023 at 20:46:01
The other side of that is they all have to consider where the next paycheck is coming from on 1 July 2024. There's gold in them Saudi sand dunes. So, hopefully deals can be cut this Summer.
In the same vein, the Club needs to make some decision around Branthwaite.
Hopefully we can get Mason Holgate gone to make room. He's owed around ٥.5 million total for the rest of his contract. If we let him go on a "free", ٥.5 mil seems plenty reasonable for a 26-year-old centre-back with 6 or 7 seasons' experience in the Premier League. A good deal for some club.
Opens up the slot for Jarrad. Then we see if he can fight his way into the first XI as he's done at PSV.
8 Posted 07/04/2023 at 20:46:13
9 Posted 07/04/2023 at 23:07:54
10 Posted 08/04/2023 at 02:53:29
11 Posted 08/04/2023 at 09:12:42
Our best bet is a US/Chinese/Saudi club who take a punt on his past reputation and pay a chunk of his wages for the final season of his ill fated contract with us.
What a waste.
12 Posted 08/04/2023 at 09:46:35
13 Posted 08/04/2023 at 10:50:03
14 Posted 08/04/2023 at 10:58:49
15 Posted 09/04/2023 at 17:32:14
16 Posted 09/04/2023 at 22:50:23
17 Posted 09/04/2023 at 22:54:57
18 Posted 09/04/2023 at 23:07:48
19 Posted 10/04/2023 at 00:41:55
Well it is Easter, miracles can and do happen, but I doubt it very much in these cases ! :-)
20 Posted 10/04/2023 at 00:48:36
21 Posted 10/04/2023 at 15:18:42
22 Posted 10/04/2023 at 15:30:32
23 Posted 10/04/2023 at 15:53:19
24 Posted 10/04/2023 at 15:55:13
25 Posted 10/04/2023 at 16:16:16
26 Posted 10/04/2023 at 16:21:42
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11956403/Dele-Alli-pictured-surrounded-laughing-gas-canisters-balloon-mouth.html
27 Posted 10/04/2023 at 16:32:39
28 Posted 10/04/2023 at 16:41:36
29 Posted 10/04/2023 at 16:43:06
30 Posted 10/04/2023 at 17:20:37
31 Posted 10/04/2023 at 17:24:27
Did no one think to really consider his motivation and mental state prior to handing him a 2 year deal?!
“Dele, lad, despite seemingly being totally disinterested in professional football for the past couple of years, will you promise to play good football and score loads of goals?â€
“Will you pay me for 2 years if I, you know, play poorly?â€
“Of course, lad. Even better, if you play poorly, we won't even put you on the bench, because we'll have to pay your current club 㿀m.â€
“Sure.â€
“Get in, Bill. I ll call in now and we can get this one on SSN!â€
32 Posted 10/04/2023 at 17:56:12
Everton don't appeared to have looked into the reasons for his alarming drop in form at Spurs.Harry Rednap has admitted he encouraged Frank to sign Alli.But later called him a disaster.
It appear that no due diligence was carried out by Everton on signing this player.Whats more players in the trade would have known if anything was not quite right with Alli.
Spurs are not much of a Club in that they did not address problems if they were there, but took the first opportunity to offload to someone else.
33 Posted 10/04/2023 at 18:07:03
34 Posted 10/04/2023 at 18:17:19
35 Posted 10/04/2023 at 18:30:57
That appears to be the case.If decisions are taken on that bases no wonder they can't get the Financial Accounts right, even with the Premier League providing a monitoring system.Yes they where surprised they where not right. But as someone once said to me there are only one set of correct figures, but you need to know how to added them up correctly.
It just shows you how the Club is being run.The place is full of bluffers on big salaries that don't know enough to do their job.
36 Posted 10/04/2023 at 18:36:08
Buy high and sell low is our business model!
Great to see Tom Cannon doing well.
I listened to a Gary Lineker, Alistir Campbell Rory Steward podcast on Saturday. He did not force a move to Barcelona. Another example of talent allowed to leave.
37 Posted 10/04/2023 at 19:51:01
Redknapp said: “I called Frank and said, ‘take the chance on Dele Alli. He's got fantastic ability and you can get him going'.
“Going to a big club like Everton could give him a big lift and Frank said he was down the road already and I said, ‘brilliant, I think he'll be great for you'.
Diabolical.
38 Posted 10/04/2023 at 19:59:49
Harry's dog was the brains in that family!!
39 Posted 11/04/2023 at 05:08:06
We did get a crucial goal out of him, but we all missed that his head was not in the right place when he turned up at Finch Farm in a White Rolls.I now remember the look on his face. He had the look of a total spacer.He was on a Cloud above where he was standing and loved having his photo taken getting out of his white rolls
Actually Harry Redknapp continue the conversation you recalled saying, '.What was he doing turning up at Everton in a Bright Rolls Royce, a council area, with red and white painted houses., Sent the completely wrong signals '.
I can't remember one Evertonian comment regarding the White Rolls. They too good for the shit they have been subjected too... Moshiri told us the truth regarding transfers.The Director of Football and Manager finds a player, fills out a requisition form presents it to The Chairman and himself and they sign off on it.It is doubtful that any proper procedures are carried out regarding the players mental or physical fitness to join the Club.It might as well be a conversation in a pub with mobile calls be taken and probably is.
40 Posted 11/04/2023 at 07:36:34
41 Posted 11/04/2023 at 08:59:45
42 Posted 11/04/2023 at 13:38:39
When he fell out with Spurs, it was impossible not to remember the player, who so recently was a certain starter for his country. It was too recent for his demise to be anything other than a personality clash.
Be honest. That is what 99% of us thought.
Hind sight with its 20/20 vision is so clear on what we missed.
If we have irrefutable evidence of his drug taking, we should offer him a take it or leave it deal. Slashed wages, fitness plan and bonuses on results. (Results in terms of fitness, commitment and performance). Or go, and sue us if you think we are out of order in expecting standards of professionalism from our players.
If he thinks he can find another club. If he wants another club. Let us see what he can get as a free agent. It sure as hell wont be a six figure weekly package.
43 Posted 11/04/2023 at 16:27:22
Arguably it paid off through his contribution to the Palace game alone.
However, I think it really tells us it's a bad idea to take a very high wage player on a very steep downward trajectory. If we're the only taker for a faded star, it almost certainly means the star has gone out altogether.
We might now have Kudus or Ouattara or someone genuinely productive now if we hadn't tied up so much of a limited budget on Alli.
44 Posted 11/04/2023 at 20:29:22
45 Posted 11/04/2023 at 21:22:33
Like many of the young talents that Saints bought this season, Lavia is going to be very good. However, with Chelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal in pursuit, he's going to cost upwards of 㿅M.
Even if we don't have a transfer ban that will be too expensive for us. If we buy, say, Gyökeres for about 㾾M, then any other incoming players might be loans or free. We don't need to be downhearted though as there are good players out there like Ryan Kent and Reiss Nelson, both out of contract in June.
46 Posted 11/04/2023 at 21:48:54
I was reading about Brighton's Evan Ferguson today, I didn't know we had him over from Ireland for trials at Finch Farm. He went to Liverpool and Brighton too. Liverpool wanted him but he chose Brighton for a better pathway to the first team. The lad played a preseason game against Frank's first game in charge of Chelsea, aged 14! Apparently Chelsea asked about him after that too. He definitely slipped through the net, would have been ideal for us.
47 Posted 12/04/2023 at 00:07:23
48 Posted 12/04/2023 at 12:40:38
The Director of Football – if that is what he is – should be sacked for this alone.
I feel for Sean Dyche, the only sane person in the hierarchy.
49 Posted 18/04/2023 at 18:43:57
Dyche has not been able to bring one single player in. We are in this mess because the board sat and waited for two seasons running.
Dyche has to hold his hands up for changing a system that had been working. Other than that, he can only go with what was already there.
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