Ally McCoist wants Rangers to sign Everton outcast Dele Alli after Besiktas links in last 24 hours
Rangers legend Ally McCoist has admitted he’d love to have Dele Alli at Ibrox after it emerged he was close to a move to Besiktas.
Dele joined Everton on a free transfer from Tottenham in January but has made just 13 appearances for the club since, with one start, and now looks set to join the Turkish giants on loan with an option to buy.
But speaking on the talkSPORT breakfast show [August 17, 6:23am], McCoist said it was a “sad story” that he’s going to drop so many levels and admitted he would take the 26-year-old at Ibrox “all day”.
“They’d love him,” he said. “Correct [he’d find himself again].
“Would I take him at Rangers? All day man. All day. Yeah. I do, I really do [think he’d do a good job]. I’d take him all day man.
“He’s completely and utterly lost his way. It’s not easy, don’t think for a minute it’s easy. You look at the players that have come to Rangers beforehand, I’m not saying they’ve struggled but they’ve not been as big a success as people would have thought. And Celtic.
“It’s a difficult place to play. But if you do play there, it’s a fantastic place to play.
“I’m really sad that Dele Alli is going to the Turkish league. He just looks lost. He needs to go and not so much feel loved, but feel comfortable and go and enjoy himself.
“It’s a sad story, it really is.”
Yikes
Dele was at one point an incredibly talented young player, who scored goals for fun at the highest level and was seen as the next golden boy of English football.
However as we saw with Aaron Ramsey, there is lots of problems with regaining confidence and form once you lose it and Dele hasn’t looked the same since 2019.
It’s been a really long time coming that he would move away from the top level to get his form back, and while Rangers would represent a better level than Turkish football it’s not a deal the club need to do.
We’ve got plenty of talent in midfield right now and we have goals all over the pitch, so bringing in a player on big wages who we have no idea how he will perform once he arrives is just a headache we don’t need.
It is a sad story of how Dele’s career has gone, but the fairytale comeback and ending doesn’t need to happen at Ibrox. Not this summer anyway.
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