Heartbreaking: Dele Alli suffers new low at Tottenham Hotspur – our view

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All eyes will be on Tottenham Hotspur throughout deadline day.

It has been a rotten January transfer window for the Lilywhites, who have failed to sign virtually all of their first and second-choice targets, like Adama Traore and Luis Diaz for instance.

However, Fabio Paratici is likely to salvage something, with Dejan Kulusevski among the players set to join Tottenham.

Spurs are also set to lose players, with Giovani lo Celso and Tanguy Ndombele among those linked with transfers to Villarreal and Lyon respectively.

But according to The Evening Standard, Tottenham are really struggling to find any takers for Dele Alli.

Decline

The 25-year-old clearly has no future under Antonio Conte in North London but despite links to Newcastle United and Everon among others, it appears as if nobody wants the England international.

And that is certainly a heartbreaking new low for the player who seemingly had it all only a few years ago.

Even this time last year, when Alli’s stock was at an all-time low, Mauricio Pochettino still wanted him at Paris Saint-Germain but chairman Daniel Levy blocked the transfer [Eurosport].

So for the former MK Dons academy player to go from being coveted by PSG, to Tottenham struggling to find anyone to take him, in the space of a year is quite a tragic decline.

Listen, Alli has been steadily going downhill for a number of years, even toward the end of Pochettino’s reign in North London, with Jose Mourinho and Nuno Espirito Santo unable to prompt a resurgence.

But considering he was easily looking like a £100 million player during Pochettino’s best years, it’s really an astonishing fall from grace that Spurs have got to a point where nobody wants to sign him.