At this point, we’re sure you don’t need us to tell you that Dele Alli’s loan spell at Beşiktaş from Everton has been a disaster this season.
The midfielder joined the Turkish side in the summer until the end of the campaign when it was made clear he was not a part of Frank Lampard’s plans for this season.
He arrived in the Super Lig to much fanfare but has struggled to be anything but a flop from day one, with Beşiktaş less than happy with the situation.
Indeed, they tried to send Alli back to Everton in the January transfer window and its since been explained that he’s set to spend the rest of the season watching from the stands rather than being an active member of the first-team squad.
The whole move has been a write off for both parties and Sporx detail the cost of the operation today at least in terms of wages.
Given he has managed just 830 minutes of football in total, that means the Everton loanee has cost them 50,000 Lira per minute this season, a figure which has ‘astonished the entire community’.
It could have been ever worse for them, though, as if Beşiktaş had bought him for the £2m option to buy they have in their loan deal, he would have earned £2.6m, or 60m Lira, annually from the club.
That’s something they won’t be doing and instead the problem of Alli and his huge wages will be returning to Everton in the summer, when they’ll have to work out what to do with a footballer whose Turkish renovation has not worked out at all.
