Dele Alli back in the UK with his season likely over

Now we are just waiting on Gbamin and to see if Tarashaj manages to rise once again.

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.

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 £7.5 million total for the rest of his contract. If we let him go on a "free", £7.5 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.

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.

Well it is Easter, miracles can and do happen, but I doubt it very much in these cases ! :-)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11956403/Dele-Alli-pictured-surrounded-laughing-gas-canisters-balloon-mouth.html

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?”

“Will you pay me for 2 years if I, you know, play poorly?”

“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 £20m.”

“Sure.”

“Get in, Bill. I ll call in now and we can get this one on SSN!”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harry's dog was the brains in that family!!

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.

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.

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 £25M.

Even if we don't have a transfer ban that will be too expensive for us. If we buy, say, Gyökeres for about £18M, 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.

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.

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.

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.