This. A few years ago, our players were getting linked to Chelsea, Liverpool, ManU, and so on. That's just not happening now. Instead, the only realistic buyers are now the very top clubs in the football world -- Real, Barca, Bayern.
Keane and Berbatov, our two best attacking players, went to Liverpool and ManU in the same transfer window. Could you see that happening with Kane and Alli? Nope.
Still, like Bale, to be a stand-out player at Spurs, you now need to be pretty brick-hot. Not just "looks good in a mid-table side" like Ginola, but "would walk into any team in the world" brick-hot. And Levy put down a marker of €100m (or whatever it was). To be honest, if Dele keeps developing at his 2016 trajectory for the rest of this season, he's going to be truly world class come May...and I wouldn't blame him for moving to Madrid.
I'm just hoping that everyone keeps on failing to notice the excellence of Toby, Dier and Lloris. Move along, nothing to see here.
How many matches it took to score 20 league goals
52 – Dele Alli
74 – Paul Scholes
90 – David Beckham
140 – Frank Lampard
169 – Steven Gerrard
I suggest you lot have a read of the Dele thread on Redcafe where they cut down the Spurs posters for daring to say he 'may' have made a bigger impact on the league than Martial.
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Agreed mate . Lets hope we can keep him away from Madrid- they are football's equivalent of Veruca Salt from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.So 10 league goals now. That"s the same as for the whole of last season. We could have another golden boot contender on our hands if this form continues.
Regardless, we have one hell of a special player in the making here.
That'd make a good spot the ball!
Quiet game and scores two brilliant goals ... headers like that are brilliant as there so hard to do
He also had a quiet game vs Watford with our lowest touches and again two goals
He is possibly learning less is more some times and you don't have to be involved in everything
Faces in the crowd are quality!