Sean Dyche has been given the green light to help Dele Alli on a remarkable football comeback as Everton reach an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur
Everton have reached an agreement with Tottenham Hotspur over Dele Alli , giving Sean Dyche the green light to help the player work towards what would be a remarkable football comeback. Everton originally signed Dele on January 31, 2022, in a highly-incentivised move with Tottenham Hotspur that could have eventually seen them shell out up to £40million in transfer fees but that two-and-a-half year contract expired at the end of last month with the 28-year-old becoming a free agent.
Dele has not played a competitive game since he was hooked at half-time of Besiktas’ goalless draw at home to Antalyaspor on February 26, 2023, a game that saw former Everton striker Cenk Tosun miss a last-minute penalty, and the injured midfielder’s loan spell in Istanbul being cut short with him returning to Finch Farm in April that year.
While the famous CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland calculated that Dele was the most-valuable midfielder in the world back in 2018, he has not been close to reaching those levels at Everton, failing to complete 90 minutes in any of his 13 matches for the club and starting just once, in the 5-1 thrashing at Arsenal on the final day of the 2022/23 season after Frank Lampard’s side had achieved Premier League safety.
Asked last August how Everton deal with the Dele’s situation and how important the pastoral side of the care was, Dyche said: “Well he thought very well. I saw his interview and I thought he spoke very positively and fairly about what we’d tried to support him with, and I think he’s come through it well in his own grounds, not just on any support we’ve given him.
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