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Dele Alli

Kandi1977 said:
His hammy must be close to as bad as mine.

One time I got a call from some mates that were short of a player for a game. My wife drove me to the arena, I got out of the car, tied my shoes and ran on to the pitch. Ref started the game, I made a run. Snap.

I was back in the car before the wife had managed to put the car in reverse! She laughed the whole way home.
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My calfs and Achilles are tight. I have to stretch out every morning.
 
Yet another ineffective performance from him, and he doesnt seem to fit in to Jose's team.

If Mourinho wants to play with two quick men out wide, we need a creator in the no 10 role. That isn't Dele.

Tempting to cash in....though given his performances over the last 12 months, the price which we'd get is far lower than a couple years ago

Really frustrating player
 
Not a playmaker, not a central midfielder, not a striker...What is he again? It's been such a long time since he had a good game I cannae remember.

Gotta love doing a high risk no gain flick in an innocuous area of the pitch when we've got 32 percent possession, it's a great party trick.
 
spurspinter1 said:
Not a playmaker, not a central midfielder, not a striker...What is he again? It's been such a long time since he had a good game I cannae remember.

Gotta love doing a high risk no gain flick in an innocuous area of the pitch when we've got 32 percent possession, it's a great party trick.
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Always played as a second striker that plays off the end of chances ghosting into the box. His chance today an example

Worry for me is more that his end product was a result of Eriksens peak assists seasons, we have never replaced that
 
He was crap today, but Sissoko was worse by an order of magnitude as his replacement.

And that's why we shouldn't sell him. Anyone we buy will be worse, because Levy and his henchman Steve Hitchen have no f*cking clue.
 
Not the time IMO
He was playing a 10 today but doesn’t have the passing range for that. He kept on thing things though and I was really surprised he was subbed
I say that was one who can’t see how he fits in but I wouldn’t over react
We have loads of games too for him to play
 
Grays_1890 said:
Always played as a second striker that plays off the end of chances ghosting into the box. His chance today an example

Worry for me is more that his end product was a result of Eriksens peak assists seasons, we have never replaced that
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The Eriksen point is key. Dele works as a no 10 if you have a creator in one of the wide forward roles, but with two pacey wingers there we have zero creativity in the front 4

You can count the number of decent games which he's had in the last two years on one hand
 
AdamB said:
The Eriksen point is key. Dele works as a no 10 if you have a creator in one of the wide forward roles, but with two pacey wingers there we have zero creativity in the front 4

You can count the number of decent games which he's had in the last two years on one hand
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He has to be in the 3 up there not at 10
Today he was neither as Moura didn’t play wide right attack... he played as an extra midfielder that first half
 
Bedfordspurs said:
He has to be in the 3 up there not at 10
Today he was neither as Moura didn’t play wide right attack... he played as an extra midfielder that first half
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To be fair I think that is Jose’s system - 3-2-4-1 in possession, with Alli and Moura both playing centrally. Personally I would like to see Lo Celso play in Moura’s position - I know lots of people think he’s better at CM, but I think he’s the closest thing to a no.10 that we have.
 
elltrev said:
To be fair I think that is Jose’s system - 3-2-4-1 in possession, with Alli and Moura both playing centrally. Personally I would like to see Lo Celso play in Moura’s position - I know lots of people think he’s better at CM, but I think he’s the closest thing to a no.10 that we have.
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Moura was never a 10 today
He hugged the right side of midfield until half time and then he kind of flopped around the pitch
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Moura was never a 10 today
He hugged the right side of midfield until half time and then he kind of flopped around the pitch
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You said yourself 'Moura didn’t play wide right attack' - I was just agreeing that he played more centrally than that, and saying that it's by design in Jose's system.
 
elltrev said:
You said yourself 'Moura didn’t play wide right attack' - I was just agreeing that he played more centrally than that, and saying that it's by design in Jose's system.
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Yeah it was
It’s brick
Moura isn’t great at that and we make an attacker
People think we played 4-2-3-1 but we played 4-3-1-2 and it was actually starting to work before he took Dele off
 
Grays_1890 said:
Always played as a second striker that plays off the end of chances ghosting into the box. His chance today an example

Worry for me is more that his end product was a result of Eriksens peak assists seasons, we have never replaced that
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Alli is not the problem, we miss Eriksen and it showed just how much to day. We have no one who can create chances like he did and until we fill that hole in the team we will struggle to make the most of the players we have. Its as simple as that.
 
parklane1 said:
Alli is not the problem, we miss Eriksen and it showed just how much to day. We have no one who can create chances like he did and until we fill that hole in the team we will struggle to make the most of the players we have. Its as simple as that.
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Well he kind of is if he was only able to achieve that form off the back of Eriksen's performances. We don't have Eriksen now and we may not ever have a direct replacement in style for him. So if Dele can only hit those heights an Eriksen it is something we need to at the least consider.

Do we setup a team to get the best of Dele or does he need to adapt to what we do have?
 
Bishop said:
Well he kind of is if he was only able to achieve that form off the back of Eriksen's performances. We don't have Eriksen now and we may not ever have a direct replacement in style for him. So if Dele can only hit those heights an Eriksen it is something we need to at the least consider.

Do we setup a team to get the best of Dele or does he need to adapt to what we do have?
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My point is its not just Alli who is missing Eriksen the whole team is, your right Alli was poor so lets get rid of him but while we are at it we might as well get rid of most because they all miss him.

Alli was not the worse player on the field today IMO but the team performance was as bad as i have seen for a while.
 
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