PSG LIKE A BIT OF POCH

Alli has been sensational for the club since arriving at White Hart Lane from MK Dons at the age of just 18, in February 2015.

Since then, he has made nearly 100 appearances for the Londoners and has shone both at home and in Europe.

His performance against Real at Wembley was one of the standout displays in the competition’s group stages.

That did not simply deliver Real’s first loss in the group stages since October 2012, it also handed Spurs the belief that they can go on and make further progress in Europe in the new year.

It also demonstrated that Alli could cut it against the very best, despite his recent dip in form in the Premier League. And Jenas, who won 21 caps in England’s midfield, is in no doubt that Alli will bounce back – for both club and country in the knockout stages of the Champions League and next summer’s World Cup in Russia.

“He’s a special talent,” added Jenas. “What I really like about him is that he hasn’t taken away that rogue spirit that makes him who he is.

“In England, we’re too quick to rip that out of people some of the time, telling players to ‘calm down and don’t get above your station’.

“I hate that. I absolutely hate it. I heard it numerous times as a kid and I had a lot of stuff knocked out of me coming through the ranks.

“You get told to keep your feet on the ground, but, as a player, you don’t want to think that – you need to be reaching for the stars.

“Watching Dele, you can see that he has that attitude – the kind of attitude that the best players in the world have.

“He’s on the right path and, hopefully, he’ll be performing at the top level transformed Tottenham into a team that are challenging for honours on both the domestic and European fronts and that has impressed the PSG owners.

The Spurs boss played for PSG for two years before moving to Bordeaux and then Espanyol in Spain.