IAN LADYMAN: Once England's rising 星／主役にする, Dele Alli has 耐えるd several lows with struggles off the pitch - the hippy 割れ目 and alcohol 出来事/事件s were 調印するs of his problems behind the scenes

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Everton midfielder Dele Alli has 明らかにする／漏らすd that he had checked himself into rehab in a 企て，努力，提案 to 戦う／戦い his 中毒 to sleeping tablets.

In an emotional interview talking to Gary Neville on The Overlap in 共同 with Sky Bet, the 27-year-old has spoken 率直に about his difficulties in 最近の years 同様に as the harrowing しつけ he 耐えるd before he was a 十代の少年少女.

Alli （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that he was （性的に）いたずらするd by one his 'mum's friends' at the age of six, started smoking at seven and was 取引，協定ing 麻薬s at eight?in a tell-all interview.

事前の to Thursday's 公表／放送, Mail Sport's IAN LADYMAN had taken a look at the England international's career in April and how it had gone downhill - transpiring in a 著名な hippy 割れ目 shame 出来事/事件 earlier that month.

In Skopje, the 資本／首都 of North Macedonia, Sir?Alex Ferguson sat with a group of coaches the night before Manchester 部隊d played Real Madrid in the 2017 UEFA 最高の Cup.

Ferguson was no longer 経営者／支配人 of his club but that doesn’t mean he didn’t feel the pang of lost 適切な時期s. ‘I don’t know how we 行方不明になるd the boy Alli,’ he mused. ‘He was 権利 there in 前線 of us. What a mistake.’

Ferguson was talking of the night in August 2014 when Dele Alli, then 18, played in an MK Dons team that （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Louis 先頭 Gaal’s 部隊d 4-0 in the League Cup.

Three years on and Alli was an 設立するd Tottenham player, an England international and a two-time PFA Young Player of the Year. He was still only 21 but he was already on his way to 存在 a superstar. No wonder Ferguson felt rueful.

But Tottenham, and in particular their scout and former 経営者／支配人 David Pleat, had been in to the Alli 現象 for years. Even if 部隊d had been quick out of the 封鎖するs after that 4-0 大打撃を与えるing, they would have been too late.

A story published by Sportsmail earlier in the week showed Dele Alli surrounded by laughing gas canisters with a balloon in his mouth and さまざまな alcohol

The 27-year-old recently returned from a 悲惨な 貸付金 （一定の）期間 with Besiktas in Turkey

Tottenham knew Alli had 示すd his first 上級の 外見 for MK Dons with a first-touch backheel against Cambridge City in the FA Cup first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する in November 2012. They knew about the 30-yard goal he 得点する／非難する／２０d in the replay. They knew all there was to know about this talented but occasionally wayward kid from a 会議 広い地所 broken home in Buckinghamshire.

‘I did six 報告（する）／憶測s on him but only really needed one,’ Pleat told Mail Sport. ‘In my first one I wrote that he was 16 but appeared older. He had all the 信任状, an 絶対の natural.’

Alli turned 27 on Tuesday. Part of his birthday 祝賀s appear to have 伴う／関わるd a flat in Salford, a balloon, some laughing gas and a very expensive 瓶／封じ込める of tequila.

In a photograph on social マスコミ, Alli is wearing a vest and baseball cap and looks anything but the 祝日，祝うd 競技者 he once was. And that’s 大部分は because he isn’t.

Alli ― once labelled the 未来 of English football by his favourite Tottenham 経営者／支配人 Mauricio Pochettino ― had not been a meaningful 影響（力） for more than two years when he left the club for Everton in January 2022.

On Merseyside, a team-mate 述べるd him 個人として as ‘a nice lad who looks 全く lost’. Alli started one game at Everton before 存在 貸付金d out to Turkish 味方する Besiktas in Istanbul last August.

Alli has been a 失敗 there, too, and is now 支援する in the North West waiting to discover if he needs 外科 on a hip problem.

Everton are locked in a relegation 戦う／戦い and have not 公然と 宣言するd their 意向s regarding a fringe player who has another year left on his 契約. But what is known is that they will 借りがある Tottenham £10million once Alli plays 20 times for them. Tottenham are not 推定する／予想するing to ever see that money.

Everton do not seem to want the midfielder 支援する にもかかわらず 直面するing a relegation 戦う／戦い

Dele's model girlfriend?Cindy Kimberly has uploaded Instagram pics of her with him this week

In Turkey, they have been moving the Dele Alli shirts to the 支援する of the Besiktas club shop. They say that, after an 初期の 殺到する of excitement, there was never much 需要・要求する anyway.

Alli arrived to popping flash bulbs but after 得点する／非難する／２０ing in his second game managed only one more in 12 その後の matches. He has not played since February with 長，率いる coach Senol Gunes 述べるing him as ‘below 期待s ーに関して／ーの点でs of efficiency’.

Where Alli is 関心d, it has become a familiar tale and Besiktas, it can be 明らかにする／漏らすd, had been 警告するd.

‘Besiktas want famous 指名するs,’ former club director Ibrahim Altinsay told Mail Sport. ‘They say, “Bring the jets” because these players always come in 私的な 計画（する）s. And Dele Alli did.

‘But I still speak to Besiktas as an 助言者 and said I knew Dele from Tottenham. My 結論 was he was very talented but I had 保留（地）／予約s about his mentality. That is what I was 存在 told. I told them he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to live his life his way and that he had people around him.

‘But they took him and for Besiktas it was a lost 原因（となる） very quickly. He is a talent but it takes more than that.

‘I compare him to Wout Weghorst who left Besiktas for Manchester 部隊d. He has 非，不，無 of Dele’s ability but he has so much 願望（する） and かかわり合い. Dele? I just didn’t see that fight and I think he has lost it. It’s really sad.’

Alli once had that fight. Once, he had all the fight he could ever need. But there are those who saw it disappear before their very 注目する，もくろむs.

‘When he arrived at Tottenham he was a rough diamond, a street kid with something to 証明する,’ a 刺激（する）s source told Mail Sport. ‘He 手配中の，お尋ね者 to show all those big superstar プロの／賛成のs he was as good as them. And he did.

‘But then he woke up one day and realised he was one of them. And then it changed.’

It's been a 劇の 落ちる for a player who won 連続した PFA Young Player of the Year awards

Alli’s 早期に impressio ns for Tottenham and for England were startling. He 得点する／非難する／２０d more goals in his first 50 首相 League games than Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard. His stats at 21 were better than Cristiano Ronaldo’s.

He made his first start for England against フラン 老年の 19 and 得点する／非難する／２０d from 25 yards. Two-and-a-half years later, he 得点する／非難する／２０d in England’s World Cup ４半期/4分の1-final 勝利，勝つ against Sweden in Russia.

Pochettino loved him. During a 2-0 勝利，勝つ over 兵器庫 in 2017, the 刺激（する）s 経営者／支配人 turned to his assistant Jesus Perez and smiled: ‘Just let Dele do what he wants’.

Underneath it all, though, Pochettino had always been 関心d. Much has been made of a scene in the アマゾン 文書の All or Nothing in which Pochettino’s 後継者 Jose Mourinho sits with Alli and 警告するs him he needs to give more and that his career is in danger of slipping away.

What is いっそう少なく known is that Pochettino had a 類似の conversation with the player within a fortnight of him joining for £5m from MK Dons and several times subsequently.

‘The danger is he will forget what got him to this point,’ Pochettino wrote in his 調書をとる／予約する 勇敢に立ち向かう New World. Both 経営者／支配人s recognised the same 欠陥 in Alli. Both did what they could. Mourinho even went to his house. But both also noticed how bemused and almost baffled he seemed by the 批評.

That chimes with our Tottenham source, who said: ‘I love Dele but he won’t listen, not to anybody outside his circle. He is on his own 旅行.’

Mauricio Pochettino was Alli's favourite boss, but the Argentinian worried about his 態度?

Jose Mourinho tried 猛烈に to refresh Dele Alli's old form while Tottenham 経営者／支配人??

Some pin the start of Alli’s 落ちる to a new 契約 he 調印するd at the end of 2018. It was for six years and for north of £100,000 per week. If he were still at Tottenham, it would still have a year to run.

It often feels too 平易な pin a footballer’s 拒絶する／低下する in form and 使用／適用 to money and status but in Alli’s 事例／患者 it is said so often and by so many people. There is talk of an over-fondness of late night ビデオ games.

An Everton player said 個人として a year ago: ‘It’s weird but he doesn’t always seem with it, almost a bit dozy’.

In Turkey, TV reporter and Besiktas specialist Safak Malatya said: ‘Dele just seemed to be mentally absent on the field. He 手配中の，お尋ね者 it, he was trying, but it was like someone was 軍隊ing him to play but he had forgotten how.’

It is this 減少（する） in 動機づけ and 使用／適用 that people keep coming 支援する to. They saw it at Tottenham, where Pochettino had almost given up by the time he left, and certainly at Besiktas.

‘He was not a problem for the coach but I don’t say that as a 肯定的な thing,’ said Altinsay. ‘When he wasn’t 選ぶd he seemed 承認する about it, やめる relaxed. That’s not normal.’

Delve deeper and some people will talk about a change in Alli’s playing position at Tottenham. He was undoubtedly at his best playing high up the field with Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen as 刺激（する）s 脅すd to 勝利，勝つ the 首相 League in 2016.

A その後の move in to midfield did not help him. But he has been played all over the field by a succession of coaches trying to relight the 誘発する. Nothing has worked.

一方／合間, another 支配する that also comes up やめる often is the 役割 of a friend called Harry Hickford.

He made his first start for England against フラン 老年の 19 and 得点する／非難する／２０d from 25 yards in 2015

Dele then went on to 得点する／非難する／２０ for England in a World Cup ４半期/4分の1-final 勝利，勝つ over Sweden in 2018

It is impossible to look at the way Dele Alli’s life has played out without considering how it started.

With an absent father and アル中患者 mother, Alli was on the レーダ of the police. His three closest school friends subsequently spent time in 刑務所，拘置所 and Alli might have 同様に, had it not been for Sally and Allan Hickford of the more 豊富な nearby borough of Cosgrove.

Alli met their son Harry at a football tournament 老年の nine. ‘It was love at first sight,’ Alli subsequently joked.

Later to be team-mates at MK Dons, the two boys were living together at the Hickford family home by the time Alli was 13. Alli 言及するs to Hickford as his brother and Sally and Allan have long since been his de facto parents.

‘Dele walked 一連の会議、交渉／完成する like a cockerel but he wasn’t,’ Sally told the Phenoms 文書の 情愛深く in 2018. ‘He was just a normal little boy. He felt 安全な with us. People thought he would turn Harry in to a naughty boy but he did not.’

Alli’s 慣習に捕らわれない しつけ is why he wears ‘Dele’ on the 支援する of his shirt rather than his own family 指名する. ‘I lived two lives when I was a kid,’ he told Phenoms. ‘Harry was this posh country boy and with him I would behave. Then I would go home to my mum and get in to trouble with the police.’

Alli’s 関係 with the Hickfords 耐えるs to the extent that for six years Harry has been his スパイ／執行官. Hickford Jnr now 作品 for the CAA/BASE 機関 but Alli is by far his most recognisable （弁護士の）依頼人.

Alli's de facto brother Harry Hickford is his スパイ／執行官, but some 恐れる he 欠如（する）s the experience to manage such a high profile 星／主役にする

The two men have lived together at Alli’s mansion in Hertfordshire at times. Alli 断言するs by the 関係 but others do not.

‘Dele was with 略奪する Segal when he （機の）カム to Tottenham and that worked for him as he was experienced,’ a 刺激（する）s source told Mail Sport.

‘Harry is a lovely lad from a 広大な／多数の／重要な family but 絶対 not equipped to 扱う a superstar footballer. You don’t learn on the 職業 with Dele Alli.’

Nobody 疑問s the 肯定的な 影響（力） of the Hickfords on Alli’s life. But there is a belief that when he has needed someone to advise him to 統治する in his more immature 超過s, his 現在の スパイ／執行官 has not managed it.

雑談（する） at Everton is of a group of hangers-on (not Hickford) who ‘were rinsing Alli every 選び出す／独身 day of his life’, and even at 刺激（する）s there was talk of too many late nights and secret runs to McDonald’s.

支援する then Alli was still at the 前線 in Pochettino’s running 演習s. His natural fitness was always high. There was almost a move to PSG, and there is a rumour that the Hickford family were given a 小旅行する of Real Madrid’s training ground.

But that was then and this is now. The Hickfords were there with Alli on the jet to Istanbul last August, taking pictures on the pitch on the day their ‘son’ started his 最新の 一時期／支部. They will always be there for him but whether football will is another 事柄. His 評判 now goes before him.

At 刺激（する）s, Mourinho 公式文書，認めるd 憶測 that Pochettino was in contenton for the 職業 at 部隊d. ‘Maybe he will take Alli,’ the Portuguese messaged to a friend. ‘He is not a fit for my team.’ Last season, a source advised Dav id Moyes at West Ham to take a chance on Alli. Moyes never called 支援する.

In Istanbul, they don’t speak 不正に of Alli. This week’s social マスコミ snap from Salford may paint a hedonistic picture but in Turkey there was no 証拠 of that. 地元の マスコミ 公式文書，認めるd the 時折の presence of Alli’s celebrity girlfriend Cindy Kimberly and his fondness for 慣習に捕らわれない 着せる／賦与するs and painted nails, but there was no （激しい）反発 once his 業績／成果s on the field failed.

‘There is no sadness about his 出発,’ 追加するd Malatya.

The footballer that burst の上に the scene at 刺激（する）s? and formed a lethal combination with club talisman Harry Kane (権利) now seems a distant memory

In England ― 特に at Tottenham ― they remember a different Alli. They remember a young lad who tried to learn Spanish ーするために talk with Pochettino and who 記録，記録的な／記録するd a ビデオ message for his 経営者／支配人’s 50th birthday. ‘It was really moving,’ said a source.

They remember a young man who would 支払う／賃金 for team dinners and organise the dressing-room music. But above all they remember the talent.

Pochettino に例えるd Alli to the 広大な／多数の／重要な Brazilian Ronaldinho once yet had given up on him by the end. Others have not.

‘Yes, I think of Dele,’ Pleat 解任するd this week. ‘There is so much talent in there but I don’t know what has happened. I cannot think of something that makes me sadder in football.’