Tottenham news: Ian Wright claims Heung-Min Son had impact on Dele Alli's decline

After making just 25 Premier League appearances since the start of the 2020-21 season, Dele Alli has ended his difficult spell at Tottenham after seven years at the club.

The midfielder completed a deadline day move to Everton on Monday, signing for Frank Lampard in an attempt to kickstart his career which once held so much promise.

Injuries have played a part in hampering the 25-year-old’s progress but under Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and now Antonio Conte, Alli’s career faltered as he failed to cement a starting spot in the Spurs side.

And Arsenal legend and TV pundit Ian Wright believes that the emergence of current Spurs player Heung-Min Son played a huge part in Alli’s decline.

Wright told Premier League Productions, via HITC, that Son became a better number 10 than his teammate and barely gave him the chance to regain his spot in the starting XI.

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He said: “We saw Dele’s rise. Then it kind of went stagnant for him. The problem Dele has is that, with the emergence of Son, who plays as that second striker. It kind of negates Dele.

“He’s not a ten. He’s not an out-and-out striker and he is in that place where Son has now taken and made his own.

“If we are going to be totally honest, he is better in that position. Dele has been trying to find his way back, in whatever system and whatever manager he has been under.

“But it’s not worked out. He maybe needs a move like this and under a manager like Frank.”

Alli quickly became one of Tottenham’s star players in his first few seasons at the club following his switch from MK Dons in 2015, making 146 appearances and scoring 46 goals in his first three campaigns.

But following Son’s change of