GIVE DELE A £200M TAG
Spurs must price out rivals
TOTTENHAM should stick a £200m price tag on Dele Alli in a bid to stop him quitting next summer.
That is the view of former Spurs star Jermaine Jenas, who fears another good season could put Alli at the top of the shopping lists of Barcelona and Real Madrid.
Jenas believes Alli is already world class and that chairman Daniel Levy should insert a hefty buyout clause to protect the club’s prized player.
Performs
He said: “From Tottenham’s point of view, it may be a bit scary as I don’t see how they can keep him if he has another fine season and then performs well for England.
“You can pretty much say he’ll go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, just like that.
“If he can get 15 to 20 goals this season and performs as he has been doing, you won’t talk about him as a young player at the end of the season, he will be world class. He isn’t frightened by that challenge, he is ready for it. The beauty about Dele is that he has the right mentality.
“I felt he had that last year. People were asking if he was the real deal or not and he answered every one of those questions.
“If I was Daniel Levy, I would be putting £200m on him right now and I know he won’t take a penny less. He’s that valuable to the club.”
Alli, 21, has yet to replicate his club form on the international stage, scoring twice in 19 Three Lions appearances.
But Jenas, a BT Sport pundit, believes Alli will come good for England with next year’s World Cup in Russia on the horizon.
He said: “He has the type of character that I feel our country can get behind. So it is a big year in terms of Dele putting himself on the global scale.
“Turning up to a World Cup in good form and putting in a really good performance in the tournament, from
Dele’s point of view, is huge.”