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Alli was born in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, to a Yoruba Nigerian father Kehinde and English mother Denise. Kehinde moved to the United States a week after Alli's birth. Alli was initially brought up by his mother, who suffered from alcohol problems. At the age of nine, he moved to Nigeria with his father, where he spent two years in an international school before returning to Milton Keynes to live with his mother.
At the age of 13, he moved into the family home of Alan and Sally Hickford, parents of another young footballer with MK Dons and whom he refers to as his "adoptive parents" although he was never legally adopted by them. In the summer of 2016, Alli elected to stop wearing his surname on his match shirts because he felt no connection with the Alli family name, instead opting for "Dele".
On 13 May 2020, Alli was held at knifepoint during a burglary by two men who broke into his house in north London. He was punched and suffered minor facial injuries. The burglars stole jewellery including watches.
His dad f*cked off when he was born, and left him with his alcoholic mother until he was nine, then suddenly shows up in his life and takes him off to another country and culture for two years at the key ages of 9-11.
He made a decent career for himself and things were looking up, but judging by his own comments was clearly carrying that trauma his whole life. He then gets robbed in his home at knife point and cut up on his face, and seemingly straight after his career plummets and managers keep talking about attitude problems…
Anybody going through that would struggle after. When Mou dropped him he wasn’t playing terribly, but it was his attitude according to Mou, who has himself been known for attitude problems and falling out with numerous players.
He left for Everton to get back on track and continued to wobble there, surrounded by other players all wobbling at the club for various reasons. He then went to another country to redeem himself, and for the first half of that loan spell it was working out for him. He was putting in good performances. A new manager came in and it seemed to fall apart for him again.
I’m sure he probably does have attitude problems and various managers aren’t wrong what they’re saying, but I can’t help feel like he’s carrying a lot of things with him, has been delt many bad hands both personally and professionally, and really if someone had came along and helped him with the mental side it might be very different.
At the age of 13, he moved into the family home of Alan and Sally Hickford, parents of another young footballer with MK Dons and whom he refers to as his "adoptive parents" although he was never legally adopted by them. In the summer of 2016, Alli elected to stop wearing his surname on his match shirts because he felt no connection with the Alli family name, instead opting for "Dele".
On 13 May 2020, Alli was held at knifepoint during a burglary by two men who broke into his house in north London. He was punched and suffered minor facial injuries. The burglars stole jewellery including watches.
His dad f*cked off when he was born, and left him with his alcoholic mother until he was nine, then suddenly shows up in his life and takes him off to another country and culture for two years at the key ages of 9-11.
He made a decent career for himself and things were looking up, but judging by his own comments was clearly carrying that trauma his whole life. He then gets robbed in his home at knife point and cut up on his face, and seemingly straight after his career plummets and managers keep talking about attitude problems…
Anybody going through that would struggle after. When Mou dropped him he wasn’t playing terribly, but it was his attitude according to Mou, who has himself been known for attitude problems and falling out with numerous players.
He left for Everton to get back on track and continued to wobble there, surrounded by other players all wobbling at the club for various reasons. He then went to another country to redeem himself, and for the first half of that loan spell it was working out for him. He was putting in good performances. A new manager came in and it seemed to fall apart for him again.
I’m sure he probably does have attitude problems and various managers aren’t wrong what they’re saying, but I can’t help feel like he’s carrying a lot of things with him, has been delt many bad hands both personally and professionally, and really if someone had came along and helped him with the mental side it might be very different.