Dele Alli has revealed what Jose Mourinho did a week after the Portuguese coach labelled him lazy in front of his teammates during a training session at Tottenham.
The 27-year-old took part in a brave interview with Gary Neville on The Overlap, which was released on Thursday, where the Everton star admitted to battling addiction, mental health issues and shocking trauma from his childhood. Alli’s football career has never reached its full potential as a result of some of his past issues and it is easily understandable as to why, now that the midfielder has opened up about his past.
One point of discussion was Alli’s exchange with Jose Mourinho during his time at Tottenham where the Roma boss labelled him lazy in front of the Amazon cameras as they filmed All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur.
The former Spurs star revealed that he considered retiring from football aged just 24 when Mourinho was his manager at Tottenham – but unveiled the truth about the famous lazy remark.
Dele Alli tells the truth about Jose Mourinho’s lazy comment
The infamous training ground exchange with Mourinho was featured in the Amazon All or Nothing documentary about Tottenham’s 2019-20 season, which Alli claims was edited selectively after his manager’s subsequent apology was left out.
“I’m glad you asked me about that [Jose Mourinho calling me lazy],” Alli told Neville when asked about the Mourinho saga.
“So that lazy comment people all love to bring that up, that interview obviously that was on Amazon. He called me lazy – that was the day after recovery day. A week later, he apologised to me for calling me lazy because he’d seen me actually train and play. But that wasn’t in the documentary, and no one spoke up about that because it was only me and him.
“In the team meeting, he called me lazy but then one on one, I think it was on the pitch he apologised for it. And I didn’t think anything of it at the time because I know myself – I’m not lazy.”
He is lazy n his training n on pitch attidue showed that same at Everton n Besiktas just like that creep at bbc using the mental health excuses to get away with what’s he’s been doing or not doing in dele case 120grsnd a week n couldn’t put a shift in for his team mates
The level of ignorance displayed by people responding to this article is breathtaking… AllI spoke openly about being RAPED at 6 ( SIX ) years old which is by itself life changing / shaping… factor in foster homes/ sent to live with his father in Africa and quickly returned – numbing. Despite these revelations the big takeaway is that Alli is lazy.. 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
Embarrassing comment.
Embarrassing comment.
Shut up you muppet …. Says it all coming from a Scottish spurs fan
I agree with Scottish Spurs comments. They all play the mental health card. They should be privileged and think themselves lucky for what they do for a living. And the money is their downfall. They think they’re more important than they really are. You get a player like Harry Kane, total professional. You don’t hear shite about him. He gets on with things quietly with no bullshit. I don’t want him to leave Spurs but don’t blame him for wanting to move on. He’s given everything to Tottenham week in week out and England. It’s all about working hard and that’s where you get respect from the most important people, the fans. They pay your bloody wages, just remember that. So think yourselves very very lucky you’ve got a job that you supposed to love.
Kane had the perfect upbringing, 2 loving parents, everything bought for him to help him get on with life and Deli was pushed from puller to post, raped when he was 6 then when he gets money those people who didn’t want him come back and blame everyone else for the way Deli was brought up, if you have never suffered from mental health problems then you shouldn’t be commenting
Perhaps Dele should take mourinho to court for bullying him when he was the spurs manager, isn’t that what everyone who doesn’t like hearing the truth about their performance do these days, poor thing. If he had put a bit more effort into his football and less into partying he could have had a wonderful career, but his head was turned by fame, and he thought he knew better than everyone around him.
On there comments, people who have been fortunate enough to not suffer severe mental health problems, villifying people who have.
I absolutely agree with you.
You are one brave man for telling the world of your troubled life , my utter respect for your honesty deli. Good luck going forward
So easy to judge with what you read in the tabloids . Dele will be better for opening up and has time on his side to go again . I wish him well whatever he decides to do .
Dele. Treat people with dignity and respect. Hope u learn from your mistakes and grow from this. I have made many. U still so young and u can make a difference. Make the difference in yours first before anyone else. I will be your biggest supporter. 🙏🏼
Im proud that he was able to talk about his abuse and mental health issues. Sadly men normally find this harder than women to open up about. Jose had no right in calling him lazy infront of his team mates, he should have pulled him to one side and told him to work harder.