Dele Alli joined Everton from Tottenham in January 2022 and is currently back on Merseyside having spending last season on loan at Besiktas. Everton manager Sean Dyche has stated that the club has considered renegotiating their contract with Dele Alli due to financial difficulties, as conversations over the club’s future ownership continue.
Dele signed from Tottenham in a cut-price transaction with a variety of add-ons midway through the 2021-22 season. One of these would compel Everton to pay Spurs £10 million following his first 20 appearances for the club.
The midfielder played 13 times for Everton before joining Besiktas on loan for the 2022-23 season, but is back at Goodison Park and working his way back to full fitness after suffering a setback in training. Dyche has now suggested director of football Kevin Thelwell may need to speak with Tottenham with a view to reaching a resolution.
Dele Alli joined Everton from Tottenham in January 2022 and is currently back on Merseyside having spending last season on loan at Besiktas. Everton manager Sean Dyche has stated that the club has considered renegotiating their contract with Dele Alli due to financial difficulties, as conversations over the club’s future ownership continue.
Dele signed from Tottenham in a cut-price transaction with a variety of add-ons midway through the 2021-22 season. One of these would compel Everton to pay Spurs £10 million following his first 20 appearances for the club. “He was training with us, warming up and doing the drills, and he strikes the ball and is knocked back to square one. It was a real blow to him. He’d had an operation on his groin, they internally stitched it like an anchor inside his body, and one of them popped out having a shot and that was it.
“It was incredibly frustrating because he was feeling great. He is still a bit away yet, nowhere near training with us but is beginning to work with the sports science people.”
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Dele Alli has only appeared in 13 competitive games for Everton. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images)
Dyche made his remarks after Everton owner Farhad Moshiri decided to sell the club to 777 Partners. The American financial business already has shares in a number of teams in Europe, South America, and Australia, but Dyche stated the takeover is still some time away and that his future as manager has not been discussed.
“No, nothing like that,” the former Burnley manager stated after visiting Goodison Park with 777 managing partner Josh Wander. “At this point, it’s really casual. They made it apparent to all of us present at the meeting that the deal has a long way to go before it is finalized.
“Most of it was very casual to be honest. It was just a feel of what I’ve learned in my time here – and others were involved in the chat of course – but on the football side of things, a feel of what I’ve learned here, the challenges ahead and stuff like that but it was a very casual meeting.
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“At this early stage they were very honest and promoted the thought that it’s still not done and it’s going to take time to get the deal done in the sense of all the fit and proper tests and all that sort of stuff. I think they were more getting a feel of what our thoughts were and what my thoughts were since coming into the club rather than giving us any directives on what they’re planning, it was more absorbing some of the feel of the club and getting a feel of it.
“It was a broad brush approach; it wasn’t about the details.” We were discussing the feel of it, how the past meets the present and the future, and how to bring it all together and forwards, as well as the issue that we had, the market, financing, and everything that has happened since I arrived.”
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