After signing a new deal, might Mo Salah be the next Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, David De Gea or… Jon Flanagan?
Under Mauricio Pochettino, Tottenham didn’t sign many players but rarely did it seem a week went by without the manager having his arm around a current Spurs star as they inked new terms.
At that time, Alli was an England regular and it was expected that he would go on to have a long international career. With Spurs, he had just helped them to their best Premier League start, but the remainder of the 2018/19 season was blighted by injuries. Under Mourinho, Ryan Mason and Nuno, Alli started only 15 Premier League games in 2020-21 and 2021-22. Antonio Conte didn’t fancy him much either and shipped him off to Everton. Under Frank Lampard at Goodison, Alli started only once inWest Ham have had their fingers burned a few times. Marko Arnautovic signed lucrative new terms in 2019 only to sod off to China the next chance he got, scoring only three goals in the intervening six months.