Dele Alli: Destined For Spurs Stardom

When Tottenham Hotspur signed MK Dons midfielder Dele Alli for £5million back in January, Spurs fans saw it as an extremely clever and shrewd piece of business. The 19-year-old then went back on loan with the League One side for the rest of this season to continue his development.

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The teenager is prodigiously talented and looks destined for the top of the game, he ended the season in top form for MK Dons, with Alli helping them seal automatic promotion to the Championship with a final day victory against Yeovil Town. He ended the campaign with 16 goals and 11 assists.

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino will be hard pressed not to include him in his first-team squad as soon as he can which leads onto this, a question on many Spurs fans minds is: ‘Will Alli be a major part of our squad next season?’ My answer to that would be, yes he will be.

He’s proven in the lower leagues that he can be a complete midfielder, a true box-to-box midfielder, someone who can defend efficiently and then make the instant transition into attack and set up a goalscoring move.

In recent seasons we’ve brought players like Paulinho and Dembele who were supposed to be that player but neither has looked anything like the player who we believed them to be. That’s where Alli comes key in our squad. He has shown to be a very good tackler, despite his young age and has speed and physical strength in an attack and when he gets to the final third he either goes for goal or lays it off for his striker, unlike Paulinho/Dembele who would pass sidewards or backwards.

On top of all that he also presses high up and wins the ball upfield which is the definition of what Poch wants from his whole team so Alli should have no difficulty in adapting to the system at Spurs. He’s a fantastic athlete, already at a young age with no limits seemingly, who’s technical ability allows him to create chances for himself and his team-mates. Spurs fans should be very excited for what Alli can bring to the Lilywhites in 2015/16.