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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7156 on: September 18, 2020, 01:58:48 PM »
I cant see Dele Alli joining a team not in CL, and I cant see us paying him anywhere near what others would.

Id rate our chances of buying him at zero.

Fingers crossed that zero is correct :-)

Personally I think he is the biggest ‘all fart no 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'’ player out there...there is obv a bit of talent in there but at no point in his career has he ever shown it in more than flashes.

Having watched the Spurs doc there is no doubt in my mind that he will want out as they painted him as a complete simpleton - think his edited highlights were starting a debate in physio room about top 3 chocolate bars / having a bit of verbals about having verbals with Dier / being called lazy in a team mtg by Mourinho / announcing that in lockdown he learnt to cook baked beans in a microwave’didnt realise it was so easy’ :-(

That whole squad came off as simpletons. Maybe its just the modern footballer, but my lord are some of those guys dense.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7157 on: September 18, 2020, 02:29:42 PM »
I worked with someone who's partner was a chef for West Brom. Although you can't tar a group of people together by the same brush, some players are spoiled, demanding children. I've heard stories of certain players refusing to do anything until they got a specific meal in their preferred manner and him having to go a player's house Christmas morning to cook a meal for them. Apparently a divide developed between the senior players and the development squad too.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7158 on: September 18, 2020, 02:56:13 PM »
I cant see Dele Alli joining a team not in CL, and I cant see us paying him anywhere near what others would.

Id rate our chances of buying him at zero.

Fingers crossed that zero is correct :-)

Personally I think he is the biggest ‘all fart no shit’ player out there...there is obv a bit of talent in there but at no point in his career has he ever shown it in more than flashes.


That is an incredibly harsh way of looking at his first three years his Spurs. I can't remember the stat but didn't he (at one point) have more premier league goals than Lampard and Gerrard at the same age?  This was an article from last year



He has been crap for the last two seasons though, and I do agree with you that I hope we steer clear. Unless he's really good mates with Jack and that Dean is certain he can turn his form around.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7159 on: September 18, 2020, 03:17:49 PM »
At 24 he is well worth getting if you could, but there is no way he would come to us now. He will go to a big club in Italy or Spain, then come back to someone like Newcastle on mad wages in 2 years time.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7160 on: September 18, 2020, 03:58:29 PM »
Personally I think he is the biggest ‘all fart no shit’ player out there...there is obv a bit of talent in there but at no point in his career has he ever shown it in more than flashes.
No, that would be Jessie Lingard, a man so ineffectual he makes Alli look like an over-achiever.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7161 on: September 18, 2020, 04:04:14 PM »
I have wondered about Deli Ali too.  Never seen in him the qualities he is supposed to posses, but there again I don't watch any football unless Villa are playing so I'm no judge!  Isn't he bessie matters with Jack?  That might go some way if we actually are interested, that and whether Spurs get Bale back.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7162 on: September 18, 2020, 04:05:30 PM »
Dele Alli would be way to much money for us at the moment

but I would have him
his form a couple of years ago was one of the best players in the prem
lately not so good

Mourinho isn’t the right man to coach anyone who has dropped in form he  deals in ‘oven ready’ players for his short term quick success cycle of football that he tries to deliver wherever he goes
and in fairness has acquired a fair few trophies in the past but I’m not sure he can do it anymore

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7164 on: September 18, 2020, 04:42:41 PM »
Deano  said in the press conference a couple more , now does that include Traore or do we class him as already here?

A left back and another winger ?

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7165 on: September 18, 2020, 04:53:45 PM »
Dele Alli would be way to much money for us at the moment

but I would have him
his form a couple of years ago was one of the best players in the prem
lately not so good

Mourinho isn’t the right man to coach anyone who has dropped in form he  deals in ‘oven ready’ players for his short term quick success cycle of football that he tries to deliver wherever he goes
and in fairness has acquired a fair few trophies in the past but I’m not sure he can do it anymore

I watched the first episode of the spurs thing and if I was top class footballer, I would not play for him. Such a caricature of the manager he thinks he used to be now.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7166 on: September 18, 2020, 04:57:45 PM »
Weren't we very close to signing Alli one January window under Lambert when he played for MK Dons? Think he was at Bodymoor for talks but Spurs came in for him.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7167 on: September 18, 2020, 05:11:39 PM »
Weren't we very close to signing Alli one January window under Lambert when he played for MK Dons? Think he was at Bodymoor for talks but Spurs came in for him.
Lambert would have ruined Alli a lot worse than the Spurs managers seemed to have recently :D

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7168 on: September 18, 2020, 05:13:32 PM »
Weren't we very close to signing Alli one January window under Lambert when he played for MK Dons? Think he was at Bodymoor for talks but Spurs came in for him.

He had the choice of us or Spurs.

He chose Spurs, so fuck him and the horse he rode in on, the gibbering fucking simpleton. You only get the chance once*

He comes across as a complete moron in that Spurs thing, too, as others have mentioned, even by footballer standards of intelligence.



* unless you are Andy Gray or Sid or Steve Hunt.

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Re: Summer transfer, gossip, speculation and the usual butter ollocks thread
« Reply #7169 on: September 18, 2020, 05:15:20 PM »
With Jota potentially off to Liverpool, Rashica to Wolves may well crank up, they were linked earlier in the window.

 


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