The Curious Case of Dele Alli | Emotional Overlap interview (p 19)

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Very harsh of the OP to compare Michael Johnson with this waste of space.
A more comparable pairing would be Ravel Morrison

 

[SebastianBlue]

Very harsh of the OP to compare Michael Johnson with this waste of space.
A more comparable pairing would be Ravel Morrison

Not comparing the person (or personal affairs), just the situation, MES. And in that regard, they are somewhat comparable, unfortunately.

And now that you have brought up Ravel Morrison (who I think we can agree is much worse than Dele Alli in the personal affairs category), I hope we’ll be able to put Mason Greenwood on this list.

Also, anyone know what Jordan Ibe is up to these days?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Very harsh of the OP to compare Michael Johnson with this waste of space.
A more comparable pairing would be Ravel Morrison

Ravel never really made it. All hype from his youth career at the rags.

Nile Ranger did more as a player and possibly more of a tawt!

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ravel never really made it. All hype from his youth career at the rags.

Nile Ranger did more as a player and possibly more of a tawt!

You’ve just reminded of a few more:

Adnan Januzaj
Paddy McNair

…and one Jesse Lingard (likely).

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Dele has obviously pissed his career away, he looks a lot older than his age, It's sad but I think we all know what he's been up to.

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

You’ve just reminded of a few more:

Adnan Januzaj
Paddy McNair

…and one Jesse Lingard (likely).

The media hype for Januzaj was ridiculously OTT. Even for a United player

Dele has obviously pissed his career away, he looks a lot older than his age, It's sad but I think we all know what he's been up to.

Sniff head?

 

[TinFoilHat]

English young player syndrome. Get the money and forget to work on developing their talents.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Kleberson, Babel, Joe Cole, Robinho, Walcott, Bentley, Bendtner and our own Mangala all flattered to deceive and all of them fell way short of what might have been predicted.

 

[ysmsa]

A bit older but Alexis Sanchez

What a disastrous move to the Swamp

 

[LongsightM13]

David Bentley retired very young, said he just grew to hate football despite being a very decent premier league player
Similar in some respects to Stephen Ireland
Hasn’t Danny Rose gone from the England team to second tier of non league in about four seasons?