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

[FightLikeAGirl]

Horrible though he is, Mourinho has a point.

 

[AlgarveBlu]

How prophetic was Mourinho?

I’m sure he said the same thing to KDB, Salah, Gudhunson and a fair few more.

 

[Sir peace frog]

maybe he thought he had made it, and thought he didn't need to keep grafting and got too comfy, or he might not of liked the football world got the money and just couldn't be arsed with a job he didn't enjoy, whatever the reason he may come to regret it one day,

people think that footballers have got it easy , but i'm sure both mentally and physically it must be very demanding

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

There have been quite a few 'new George Bests' over the years, and it seems to be fatal to their careers to be so overhyped. It's like a writer being called the 'new Tolstoy'. Set up to fail, and for people to laugh at you.

I recall Phil Jones was the 'new Duncan Edwards'. What a joke.

That literally made me laugh!

I distinctly remember Walcott being hailed as a major new talent, one of the brightest seen for years. He's had, let's say, a middling to minor career.

 

[LongsightM13]

How prophetic was Mourinho?

Alli was already gone as a player by then. Not exactly Nostradamus

 

[hilts]

How pathetic was Mourinho?

Aye he was a proper ****.

 

[MadchesterCity]

Jizzijuz Macheda

 

[aguero93:20]

Alli was already gone as a player by then. Not exactly Nostradamus

You'd never see Nostradamus doing a press conference looking like he'd slept in a wheelie bin.

 

[Kazzydeyna]

I don't get this. Marcus Rashford is 25 years old and has 75 PL goals. Unless his career is derailed by injury or he leaves the country he'll finish in the top 10 goalscorers in Premier League history. Already won a few trophies, good scoring record for England.

And yes, he used his public platform to bully the government into feeding school kids, which is about the best thing a United player has done for 50 years.

Not comparable in the slightest to Dele Alli.

Here here.
I despise United as much as the next guy, but Marcus Rashford is a genuine, decent, hard-working, inspirational young man who has used his good fortune to try and ensure a better life for people less fortunate are than himself.
I can easily look past who he plays for, the lad is a treasure. A magnificent human being.

 

[aguero93:20]

I despise United as much as the next guy, but Marcus Rashford is a ****.

Fixed

 

[domalino]

Horrible though he is, Mourinho has a point.

Shame he just decided to make a big point in front of the TV cameras and not actually fix anything.

Compare that to ten Hag's treatment of Sancho. Realised he was really struggling on and off the pitch, in a bad environment. So he took him out of it, sent him to train 1 on 1 under a coach he knew in the Netherlands for 3 months, told the press he was out indefinitely and wasn't talking about it further, and since he's brought him back he's been one of their better players and looks a lot more like the Sancho from Dortmund.

Why would you invite the Amazon cameras to a really important heart to heart conversation about someone's future, an intervention?

 

[LongsightM13]

Here here.
I despise United as much as the next guy, but Marcus Rashford is a genuine, decent, hard-working, inspirational young man who has used his good fortune to try and ensure a better life for people less fortunate are than himself.
I can easily look past who he plays for, the lad is a treasure. A magnificent human being.

He seems a decent if limited working class lad but has a huge global PR machine behind him. Massive US management agency
Pretending he was starving and had no access to books, having been rehoused from Old Moat estate and moved to a new school by united from an early age, is insulting people’s intelligence.
As was telling people the graffiti on his mural in Withington was racist when it wasn’t, and turned out to be a student repeating an online meme about travellers
He is a decent lad but some of the people around him probably aren’t. They have used him for financial gain.
Still loved the fact he gave Johnson a kick in the balls though.

 

[Saxmundham Blue]

Dele Alli is and always has been a horrible snide shithouse, spent most of his time in matches trying to injure opponents.

Massively overrated and made to look way better than he actually was by that quality midfield Spurs had at the time

MK Dons was his level

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

Leeds and Chelsea may have expected more for the fees they paid for Seth Johnson and Danny Drinkwater.
For us Terry Cooke never seemed to kick on after the Gillingham promotion game and Jeff Whitley may have had a better career if he didnt have off field issues.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Why would you invite the Amazon cameras to a really important heart to heart conversation about someone's future, an intervention?

I'm assuming Ali could have refused to have the meeting filmed or refused to allow it to be included after filming but maybe the lure of the Big Screen got the better of him?

If I was his agent I wouldn't have advised him to do that scene.

 

[domalino]

I'm assuming Ali could have refused to have the meeting filmed or refused to allow it to be included after filming but maybe the lure of the Big Screen got the better of him?

If I was his agent I wouldn't have advised him to do that scene.

I don’t think he knew where it was going when he walked in the room.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I don’t think he knew where it was going when he walked in the room.

Maybe - but he could have refused to allow it to be shown surely?

 

[FightLikeAGirl]

Shame he just decided to make a big point in front of the TV cameras and not actually fix anything.

Compare that to ten Hag's treatment of Sancho. Realised he was really struggling on and off the pitch, in a bad environment. So he took him out of it, sent him to train 1 on 1 under a coach he knew in the Netherlands for 3 months, told the press he was out indefinitely and wasn't talking about it further, and since he's brought him back he's been one of their better players and looks a lot more like the Sancho from Dortmund.

Why would you invite the Amazon cameras to a really important heart to heart conversation about someone's future, an intervention?

Because it's Mourinho and he's a giant attention whore. Didn't Poch refuse to do the documentary?

Ten Hag handled Rashford's disciplinary well too, even though it was just for lateness.

 

[The First Earl]

Good shout. Although I only saw him at the end of his career at Colne and Radcliffe, he was head and shoulders above everyone else at that level. I don’t know how true it is, but he was a very slight guy who certainly didn’t tackle much and I was told that he didn’t make it at the rags because he wouldn’t get stuck in to the physical side of the game.

Played against him once (cannot remember who he was playing for), it was at TorKington park in Hazel Grove, so he’d obviously dropped down the ladder a bit. I remember walking off the pitch thinking there‘s a massive difference between those that think they can play football, and those that actually can!
He had so much time on the ball and was mesmerising, different mustard.

 

[RayCTID]

That was in the season where Mourinho got sacked before the League Cup final?