UPDATE: Manchester City Manager Pep Guardiola has refuted the claims that his club is trying to sign Dele Alli.
“Mauricio Pochettino has to stay calm. Dele Alli will be his player next season, I am pretty sure about that. We don’t want him,” Guardiola said.
“He is a fantastic player, [a] good, new, English footballer. He’s a fighter. He’s good. He’s someone who attacks the box and is one of the most fantastic players I have ever seen in my life. But Manchester City doesn’t want Dele Alli.”
We’re all “day to day.” Because “nothing in life is guaranteed.” Pick your tired cliche, but essentially it’s the truth and Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino knows as such and espoused it today regarding his star midfielder Dele Alli.
Platitudes are platitudes because they’re true. Alli was the breakout star of the 2015-16 season; not just at White Hart Lane but in the English Premier League in general.
That sensational ’15-’16 campaign saw his overall monetary value skyrocket, and his rapid ascension is even all the more amazing when you consider that he was playing for MK Dons in League One just two years ago and didn’t receive his first international cap until this past October of 2015.
He followed up that campaign with a season that just saw him named PFA Young Player of the Year this past Sunday.
The Englishman is in very high demand, as former Tottenham star an current Real Madrid winger Gareth Bale recently saying that Dele Alli can play for any team in the world that he wants.
Pochettino today admitted that he may not be able to Alli at White Hart Lane beyond the summer.
He was quoted by the Daily Star, saying:
“I cannot guarantee anything in life. The most important is to try and enjoy the present. Don’t think too much about the future.”
“In the future we will make the best decision for the club. The team is improving every season so our decisions every year so far are good.
“The fans should trust the club takes the best decision to improve. We care a lot about the club. Now we must focus on the present.”
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