Dele Alli is a £50million player – Pochettino

Tottenham Hotspur manager, Mauricio Pochettino, has insisted that Dele Alli is worth £50million and can go on to become one of the best players in the world.

Alli won the PFA Young Player of the Year award last season, after he arrived from League One side, MK Dons, in January 2015.

This season, the 20-year-old England international has scored six goals.

“Yes [he is a £50m player], why not? Today Dele Alli is showing a quality, a talent that it’s difficult to find in Europe at 20 years old,” Pochettino said ahead their game at Watford on Sunday.

“There’s no doubt he is and will be one of the best players in England in the next 10, 12 years. And England represents Europe, and maybe the world too.



“The Premier League is the toughest and best competition in the world, and if you are one of the best in England you are one of the best in Europe.

“In one year and a half we’ve talked a lot, and we can see how he is as a person, and that’s important; how he’s growing up, not only in football. For different reasons that crossed different problems, but he’s improved a lot in his behaviour, in his game, in football.

“Now it’s a big challenge for all the opponents to stop Dele Alli. He’s said he wants success here, he’s very happy here, and there’s no doubt that he wants to win titles here.”

Alli is under contract until 2022 and Pochettino added: “I am very honest in that situation. Sometimes he will joke in the dressing room or on the pitch, but he’s very serious.

“Always I hear him say many times ‘I want to succeed here, I want to win trophies here’.”