Dele officially leaves Everton ‘to turn new page’

Will we miss his goals? 🙂

It was a very crazy but hopeful transfer, that obviously didn’t work out for either Everton or Dele himself! Had he discovered his previous form, it would have been a coup, but that wasn’t to be.

Wish him all the best for his future, but secretly hope he doesn’t suddenly become the player he was, with someone else!

It was always a longshot, but definitely worth the effort.

Wishing him nothing but the best.

Dele Alli summed up the Moshiri years. Lots of optimism when we signed him but it turned out to be a disaster.

The club stood by him through his problems but, from the playing side, he offered us nothing.

Hopefully the final episode of the Kenwright era of dodgy transfer dealings that didn’t work out well for us. No doubt Dyche tried to make it work out but I doubted that it ever would but good luck to Dele. I hope he gets satisfaction in the end. It was a nice try but always doomed to failure.

The old days hopefully have gone forever now we have new owners.

Craig (5),

I think you will find that Kenwright did all the negotiating in bringing Dele Alli to Everton.

The streets will never forget his second-half performance in the 3-2 Palace win when Dom scored the diving header…

Frank brought him on at half-time and the rest is history, I’m sure he was involved in the knockdown for our second goal if my memory is correct.

Even just for that performance alone, thanks lad.

I wish the boy well.

I hope he makes the most of his talent over the next 4 to 6 years.

Como seem to be really doing anything for publicity. They had Varane there briefly then termed him when he wasn’t fit enough. Now they are toying with Alli.

At this point, it is almost 2 years since he played at all and about 4 or 5 since he was playing at the level that saw him branded as world class.

Unfortunately I think his career (at any meaningful level) is over. Even at lower levels it is hard to get to the fitness required – as Jack Wilshere showed when he tried his luck in Sweden.

All the best, lad.

Hope you get your life and career back on track.

On a personal level, that was a very moving interview in which Dele came across very well, not quite the person you would imagine.

From an EFC perspective, he was a disaster, vast sums expended for basically nothing back. At least he is honest enough to acknowledge how amazingly he did out of us.

I think Levy knew full well he was severely damaged goods and Kenwright way too stupid to sense that.

Sean,

I believe he blocked a Palace player off for Calvert-Lewin to score the 3rd goal from the free kick.

He’s probably been watching Dychosaurs tactics and thought “That’s me done!”

Disaster of a signing, cost the club a fortune, but hopefully that’s the last daft signing ever.

If he restarts his career, good luck.

Signing him, with hindsight, was a risk the club shouldn’t have taken and a mistake.

Helping a person who had suffered such extreme trauma, and letting him train (unpaid) after his contract was finished was a humane and compassionate act that shouldn’t, IMHO, be disparaged.

Bill @13… that I was unaware of.

He deffo also was involved around the 6-yard box for the second as well. What a night!

I applaud the club giving him all we could but I think in the future we should avoid these kind of signings. It was dodgy from the start.

I’ve suffered with mental health down the years myself. I think the club must be praised but, at the same time, I hope TFG will change Sentimental FC into Ruthless FC.

His quote reads like he’s leaving Everton. He was just using our facilities wasn’t he?

Good luck to the lad.

If Daniel Amokachi was Joe Royle’s greatest substitution he never made, then surely Dele Alli will go down as probably the greatest signing we never had.

It comes today as he leaves Everton but it never ever felt like he even played for us really, did it?

Such a shame because, if he could have even been 50 or 60% of the player he was between 2015 and 2019, then we’d have had some player.

I hope he gets something like his mojo back but, to be honest, I don’t see it ever happening now.

If Dele should get the chance to read this thread, he will realise that he spent time with a great club supported by the best people around.

Our club did him proud.

Good luck, amigo.

As some posters on here have already mentioned, we will always have that 2nd 45 minutes of the Palace game.

For that I will always be eternally grateful.

The lad has deeper issues than football, I think, some of which he’s been brave enough to speak about.

I wish him good luck with his life and hope he can at least find a modicum of contentment.

I hope his mental and physical recovery is complete…

But I wonder if the timing of his sudden departure has anything to do with the takeover of the new regime?

Lots of negatively here, unjustified imo.

We took a chance on him and it didn’t pay off. At least there was logic you could follow. We’ve had far more costly signings that yielded nothing on the pitch; Niasse and Tosun each cost us far more than Dele did and each of these was hugely questionable before they were even signed. Many other examples.

Good luck to the lad, and if he never plays again he at least made it to the top for a few seasons.

That second half contribution against palace cannot be overestimated.

Football is the weirdest sport: I can imagine when Dele comes back, he’ll be applauded by all 4 sides of the Everton Stadium whilst when Calvert-Lewin comes back, it’ll be to a mixed reception and muted praise at best.

One has contributed next to nothing by way of goals and assists and the other is nearly our top goalscorer in the Premier League (plus he actually scored the winner in the Palace match that so many overstate Dele’s contribution to).

Football’s a funny old game, eh?

Good luck to Dele. He deserves a chance to get back to playing again.

Perhaps playing in Serie A at a less fashionable club and possibly less challenging league will afford him the time to get his act together.

I look forward to Everton signing him for £20M in a year’s time.

Good luck, Dele.

Try an easier league better than the cut and thrust of the Premier League is definitely the best way after so long out.
A place with warm sunshine and a great lifestyle to help minimise the stresses of life.

Thanks for the cross that got the winner versus Palace. That was a cracking 2nd-half performance where you had the bit between your teeth and were the best player on the park.

I hope you can reach those heights again and achieve your dream of winning the World Cup, score the winning goal in the final, and say you identify as an Evertonian while lifting the trophy!

Dream big and all that.

We’ll always have the Palace game to thank him for.

Good luck to him.

Everton took a gamble and it didn’t work out – sadly for both the club and for Dele himself. The romantic in me wanted this to end in a fairy tale ending, so in that sense I am disappointed to see him leave.

I wish him all the best for his future and hope he finds a second career that gives him purpose and fulfilment.

Not able to look after his own business Dele Alli got caught up in a deal between Kenwright and Levy that never was in his best interests and certainly ignored his well being.In fact the deal actually inhibited any chance of recovery.Both parties knew of his problems , but normal procedures where bypassed in the interests of a deal and not the interests of the player or Club.

Good luck to him Italy won’t be as warm as Dubai. but he will aleast get a bit of heat, as he has done at this time most years.

Jerome – 31

Como at this time of the year is very similar in temp to Liverpool. About 8 degrees.

He could always fly to work from the Amalfi coast where it is a little warmer.

Good luck to Deli, not that he will be reading this… 🙂

Andrew #32

The illusion of better weather abroad is a thing of past.Talking to my daughter in Sydney, though 36° there was torrential rain, extreme thunder and lighting and tree blown down.

Maybe Delli Alli is facing really at last.As long as he doesn’t turn up in a White Rolls.

When you think of it, it really was very funny.