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title: "Tottenham Hotspur: Jose Mourinho can get the best out of Dele Alli, suggests Adrian Durham"
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author: "Stephan Georgiou"
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published: "2019-11-23T07:55:56Z"
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# Tottenham Hotspur: Jose Mourinho can get the best out of Dele Alli, suggests Adrian Durham

**TalkSPORT host Adrian Durham has backed new Spurs manager Jose Mourinho to get the best out of Dele Alli – arguing that the midfielder went ‘backwards’ under the leadership of Mauricio Pochettino.**

Durham believes that Mourinho can have a similar impact on Alli as he did with Frank Lampard at Chelsea and improve Alli’s goalscoring rate by giving him the right guidance.

Speaking on [TalkSPORT](https://twitter.com/talkSPORT/status/1197613151505854465), Durham feels that Mourinho can return Alli to the top of his game.

He said: “There’s a big opportunity for Jose Mourinho to prove a lot of people wrong, here. I’m keen to see what happens to Dele Alli’s game now.

“I’d like to see Mourinho work with Dele Alli because I think it could be sensational.

“\[Frank Lampard\] didn’t become a regular goalscorer every single season for England until after 2004 – after Jose Mourinho had turned up at Chelsea.

“Jose turns up \[and\] the goalscoring just goes through the roof. Something changed for the better. Clearly, there’s something there. Can he do that with Dele Alli? Because there’s clearly a very good player there, he just needs the right coaching.

“There’s a lot of things \[Pochettino\] did wrong, and one of them, on his watch – Dele Alli’s gone backwards, massively – and Jose Mourinho can sort that out.”

There is certainly an argument to suggest that Alli’s performances have been on the wane in recent years – with the Englishman backing up his breakthrough campaign in the Spurs first-team with an [18-goal haul](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dele-alli/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/207929) in the Premier League a year later, and a career-high of 11 league assists in the following season.

But last season saw Alli score just [seven times](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dele-alli/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/207929) in all competitions, with only two so far in the current campaign.

Whether that is down to coaching as Durham suggests remains to be seen with [Mourinho replacing Pochettino](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50483023) in midweek, but with a track record such as his, perhaps an upturn in form from Alli is to be expected.

Lampard was arguably the star of Mourinho’s Chelsea midfield, with [40 league goals](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/frank-lampard/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/3163) in three full seasons in the Portuguese’s first Stamford Bridge spell.

Meanwhile, Mesut Ozil flourished under the new Spurs boss at Real Madrid, with [54 assists](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/mesut-ozil/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/35664) in three La Liga campaigns.

So whether or not Alli could be the latest player to be positively influenced by the 56-year-old, it should be clearer as to whether his recent woes have been down to him or his previous manager.

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