Tottenham defender Ben Davies has recalled working with a young Dele Alli.
Davies was at Spurs when Alli was signed from MK Dons.
Dele was incredible when he turned up, he was a young kid from Milton Keynes and he got thrown into first-team training and he would just do stuff for fun," Davies told Julien Laurens of the Everton midfielder.
"I think to start with, the management, the staff were like 'What's this kid doing?'
[They would say] like play properly, get the ball and play here. He would just get the ball to feet, step over it, and try to go through other people's legs, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Trying to flick the ball and at this time I remember he was playing as a six. He was a CDM, he would fly into tackles and you'd get some boys be like 'relax'.
Then it would come to pre-season and we played against Real Madrid and it would be like the Dele Show. From that he was just a kid who there was no level of competition, that was the best way to describe him. What he did in League One he would try against [Luka] Modric, against [Toni] Kroos, It was so irrelevant to who he was playing against."
