Throughout their careers, Dele Alli, Joe Gomez, and Jadon Sancho have played for Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Manchester United, and Liverpool.
While Jadon Sancho remains on Manchester United‘s roster but is presently on loan at Borussia Dortmund, Joe Gomez, who won the League Cup on Sunday, is one player who is still flourishing in the Liverpool colors.
Dele Alli, meantime, played for a number of years at Tottenham, where he won over many supporters. He is currently at Everton, where he hasn’t played in a full season.
But according to a former scout, things might have been different for these players before they made high-profile moves to some of the greatest teams in English football because Chelsea was looking at them as adolescents.
Ian Wright is not happy that Chris Robinson stated on Instagram that he considered signing Rising Ballers but decided they weren’t good enough.
The legend of Arsenal took issue with a man who had worked as a scout for Chelsea for many years informing him in the Rising Ballers Instagram post’s comments section that “you were wrong” and that “they all made it.”
From saying that Dele Alli, the star of MK Dons at the time, wasn’t any better than Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Lewis Baker, to saying that Watford teenager Jadon Sancho was “just okay” and that he “didn’t think Joe Gomez was a great footballer” at Charlton.
The careers of Dele Alli, Joe Gomez, and Jadon Sancho
The former Chelsea scout added, “I saw Dele Alli when he was playing first-team football for MK Dons when he was about 17.”
“I didn’t think he was any better at Chelsea than Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Lewis Baker were.” Was I correct now? I was, indeed, at the time. It wasn’t just me; many clubs and other Chelsea scouts reached the same conclusion.
Joe Gomez throughout his tenure at Charlton. I estimate that they are 16 or 17 years old. He seemed like a decent athlete to me. I never thought he was a very good football player. Hasn’t he moved on and performed satisfactorily?
Jadon Sancho, too. When Jadon was 14 years old, I watched him playing strike for Watford. I believed he was doing well. No, he’s just ok.
It’s interesting to note that Joe Gomez doesn’t play every day for Liverpool. Jadon Sancho isn’t able to get a game at United, and Dele Alli isn’t playing at his best right now. I don’t know, I might not have been as stupid as I thought I was at the time.
Then Ian Wright said, “You were wrong.” They all succeeded, performed for England, and played for prestigious clubs. attempting to defend bad choices.
Football in the academy is brutal.
Maybe the ex-Chelsea scout is speaking in the wrong way or with the incorrect tone. He must keep in mind that Gomez is a really important player to Jurgen Klopp.
However, decisions taken at that level, including in academy football, are not done so to appease the public. It is capable of extreme cruelty.
You have to be brutal in your thinking because many young children are offered dreams that 98% of them will never achieve, and they all want that professional contract.
Some people are knocked down and never get back up. However, some others, like Declan Rice at West Ham United after Chelsea let him leave, use it as motivation to succeed somewhere else.
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