Dele officially leaves Everton 'to turn new page'

It was a very crazy but hopeful transfer, that obviously didn't work out for either Everton or Dele himself! Had he discovered his previous form, it would have been a coup, but that wasn't to be.

Wish him all the best for his future, but secretly hope he doesn't suddenly become the player he was, with someone else!

Wishing him nothing but the best.

The club stood by him through his problems but, from the playing side, he offered us nothing.

The old days hopefully have gone forever now we have new owners.

I think you will find that Kenwright did all the negotiating in bringing Dele Alli to Everton.

Frank brought him on at half-time and the rest is history, I'm sure he was involved in the knockdown for our second goal if my memory is correct.

Even just for that performance alone, thanks lad.

I hope he makes the most of his talent over the next 4 to 6 years.

At this point, it is almost 2 years since he played at all and about 4 or 5 since he was playing at the level that saw him branded as world class.

Unfortunately I think his career (at any meaningful level) is over. Even at lower levels it is hard to get to the fitness required – as Jack Wilshere showed when he tried his luck in Sweden.

Hope you get your life and career back on track.

From an EFC perspective, he was a disaster, vast sums expended for basically nothing back. At least he is honest enough to acknowledge how amazingly he did out of us.

I think Levy knew full well he was severely damaged goods and Kenwright way too stupid to sense that.

Disaster of a signing, cost the club a fortune, but hopefully that's the last daft signing ever.

If he restarts his career, good luck.

Helping a person who had suffered such extreme trauma, and letting him train (unpaid) after his contract was finished was a humane and compassionate act that shouldn't, IMHO, be disparaged.

He deffo also was involved around the 6-yard box for the second as well. What a night!

I've suffered with mental health down the years myself. I think the club must be praised but, at the same time, I hope TFG will change Sentimental FC into Ruthless FC.

Good luck to the lad.

It comes today as he leaves Everton but it never ever felt like he even played for us really, did it?

Such a shame because, if he could have even been 50 or 60% of the player he was between 2015 and 2019, then we'd have had some player.

I hope he gets something like his mojo back but, to be honest, I don't see it ever happening now.

Our club did him proud.

As some posters on here have already mentioned, we will always have that 2nd 45 minutes of the Palace game.

For that I will always be eternally grateful.

I wish him good luck with his life and hope he can at least find a modicum of contentment.

But I wonder if the timing of his sudden departure has anything to do with the takeover of the new regime?

We took a chance on him and it didn’t pay off. At least there was logic you could follow. We’ve had far more costly signings that yielded nothing on the pitch; Niasse and Tosun each cost us far more than Dele did and each of these was hugely questionable before they were even signed. Many other examples.

Good luck to the lad, and if he never plays again he at least made it to the top for a few seasons.

That second half contribution against palace cannot be overestimated.

One has contributed next to nothing by way of goals and assists and the other is nearly our top goalscorer in the Premier League (plus he actually scored the winner in the Palace match that so many overstate Dele's contribution to).

Football's a funny old game, eh?

Perhaps playing in Serie A at a less fashionable club and possibly less challenging league will afford him the time to get his act together.

I look forward to Everton signing him for £20M in a year's time.

Try an easier league better than the cut and thrust of the Premier League is definitely the best way after so long out.
A place with warm sunshine and a great lifestyle to help minimise the stresses of life.

Thanks for the cross that got the winner versus Palace. That was a cracking 2nd-half performance where you had the bit between your teeth and were the best player on the park.

I hope you can reach those heights again and achieve your dream of winning the World Cup, score the winning goal in the final, and say you identify as an Evertonian while lifting the trophy!

Dream big and all that.

Good luck to him.

I wish him all the best for his future and hope he finds a second career that gives him purpose and fulfilment.

Good luck to him Italy won't be as warm as Dubai. but he will aleast get a bit of heat, as he has done at this time most years.

Como at this time of the year is very similar in temp to Liverpool. About 8 degrees.

He could always fly to work from the Amalfi coast where it is a little warmer.

Good luck to Deli, not that he will be reading this... :)

The illusion of better weather abroad is a thing of the past. Talking to my daughter in Sydney, though 36°C there was torrential rain, extreme thunder and lightning, and a tree blown down.

Maybe Deli Alli is facing reality at last. As long as he doesn't turn up in a white Rolls-Royce.

When you think of it, it really was very funny.

Yet they both had serious weaknesses nobody seemed to know anything about. Barkley didn't have the football brain to supplement his obvious individual skill and Dele had, as he has now told us, his brittle mental health.

Both have now effectively disappeared at a time when it would have been reasonably expected for them to have been in the golden years of their careers.

Levi had Kenwright over a barrel. It was never on that Dele would play again.

Does that mean that Spurs got Richarlison for £12M less than the fee reported for him because of Kenwright's negotiations with Levei?

"It was never on that Dele would play again."

Why did Spurs insist on the £40 million clause then?

No one, especially a child, should ever have to suffer abuse like what Dele Alli had so I feel sorry for him for that and for anyone that does. As a footballer, he's already had a successful career.

As for Everton, the risk was worth taking but it didn't turn out as we had hoped. I would not be surprised to see him playing again but neither would I if he retired. Once again the charity we show as a club is tremendous; the form on the pitch remains substandard.

When will our luck change?

Levy insisted on the clause knowing what a gullible fool Kenwright was; that's how he's got on, being ruthless.

A lot of us on here thought we'd be getting a half-decent player when fit; alas, it was not to be… but still, like many others have said, you can only wish the lad well.

He only had good things to say about the club and us – and for that, thanks, kid, and good luck.

He was never going to recover from either ailment. As much was clear from the outset. In short, the lad's head was gone.

Everton's medical team were clearly lacking in their initial assessment. Dele's problems were far more complex than mere physical injury. Recovery being so much harder to diagnose and subsequently treat. Either that, or our managerial conglomerate overlooked medical advice and took an irrational improbable gamble, doomed to failure from the beginning.

Spurs must've exhausted all avenues and been relieved to offload, to the first gullible sucker willing to take on what was left of this once great player, a sad pathetic shell of his former self.

Enter, stage left, Mr Kenwright.

"A lot of us on here thought we'd be getting a half-decent player when fit;"

Pat #38 & Phil #41 obviously didn't think so but perhaps that's the benefit of hindsight.

But if you thought we were getting "a half-decent player when fit"... where does the "gullibility" come in given that we didn't end up paying for it?

I doubt for one second that Redknapp believed it was. He cared little that it reflected badly on his nephew's managerial status.

Gullible Cesc?