Stan Collymore has suggested on Twitter that ‘no football team’ is going to solve the issues former Tottenham Hotspur and Everton-owned midfielder Dele Alli is facing right now at Besiktas.
The 26-year-old, who is still on Everton’s books after joining them from Spurs last January, moved to Turkey and signed for Besiktas in the summer on a season-long loan deal.
After only a few weeks in the Spurs dugout, Antonio Conte opted to part ways with the attack-minded player, who had struggled towards the back end of Mauricio Pochettino’s reign, for most parts under Jose Mourinho and then hardly featured under Conte.
That’s where the door opened for him to join then-struggling Everton, who survived relegation to the Championship by the skin of their teeth under Frank Lampard, but Alli didn’t play much of a part.
But fast to the present and there is already talk that the Turkish giants want to terminate his current loan deal – he was recently subbed off in the first half whilst Bestikas were 2-0 down to a lower league side in a cup competition.
From playing with Harry Kane and repping England at the 2018 World Cup, Alli might well be in a situation where he no longer has a club in 12 months.
The 26-year-old’s decline has been as rapid as his early rise, with that fresh-faced teenager that joined Tottenham from MK Dons, the shadow of the superstar that scored 18 goals from the middle of the park in the Premier League.
Previously, former Aston Villa and Liverpool striker Collymore suggested that Alli should retire, well, after the latest developments involving the player, he rehashed that message, which was criticised by Frank Lampard and explained what the struggling star needs to do.
DELE ALLI ONLY HAS HIMSELF TO BLAME
A now infamous conversation between Jose Mourinho and Dele Alli back in 2019 has been doing the rounds, where he tells the player that he basically needs to fix up before it’s too late.
Well, some might say it is too late now because his career has declined at a rapid rate and there are no signs that he is even now deserving of playing in top-flight football.
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