{"id":516618,"date":"2026-03-05T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:06:08","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-why-is-dele-alli-training-at-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/516618\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur: Why is Dele Alli training at Spurs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midfielder Dele Alli has returned to Tottenham Hotspur to train independently.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old has been allowed to use the club’s facilities while he improves his fitness and looks to join a new club.<\/p>\n

Dele has posted clips of him training at the club’s academy grounds on his social media platforms.<\/p>\n

He has been without a club since September 2025, when he left Serie A club Como<\/a> after his contract was terminated.<\/p>\n

Dele recently returned to Spurs as a special guest at the north London derby against Arsenal in February.<\/p>\n

He scored 67 goals over 269 appearances over seven years for Spurs, before leaving in 2022.<\/p>\n

Dele has played most of his career game time at Spurs, at a total of 19,150 minutes, having previously played a total of 6,514 minutes at MK Dons.<\/p>\n

Since leaving north London, fitness and form struggles prevented the midfielder from fully establishing himself at Everton or Besiktas.<\/p>\n

Dele made 13 appearances for the Merseyside team between 2022-2024. playing a total of 369 minutes.<\/p>\n

He went on loan to Turkish side Besiktas, where he scored three goals in 15 appearances between 2022 and 2023, playing 830 minutes.<\/p>\n

At Como, he made just one appearance, as an 81st-minute substitute against AC Milan, but was sent off for a challenge <\/a>on midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midfielder Dele Alli has returned to Tottenham Hotspur to train independently. The 29-year-old has been allowed to use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-516618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}