“He Has Been Brainwashed,”: Family Sources Challenge Dele Alli’s Childhood Story

• Dele Alli is one of the raves of the moment after his emotional interview with Gary Neville
• The Everton star opened up on the struggles of his career and touched on his childhood
• His account of his childhood traumas has been challenged by sources close to his family

Dele Alli is being lauded across the football world after he opened up on the challenges of his football career in the past four years and his childhood struggles, but that may not be all.

Alli has experienced downtimes in his career since 2019 after helping Tottenham reach the 2019 UEFA Champions League final, which they lost to fellow English club Liverpool.

His decline was broadly evident during the time of former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho under whom Alli claimed to almost retire due to a bad time when the manager was not playing him.

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During the interview with Overlap, Alli did not fail to comment on a long-standing issue around his biological parents and yet again claimed he felt betrayed by them.

Alli's childhood story challenged

The story of his childhood experiences has been challenged by a source close to his family who chose to remain anonymous in an exclusive interview with OJB Sports.

“Dele was never adopted by anyone," the source said. "At age seven, Dele attended one of the best schools in Lagos, Nigeria. He was never sent to Africa for discipline. That’s a blatant lie. He had a driver that picked him daily from school.

“We have all the documents and pictures of Dele with his dad from when he was born as a kid. Dele has been brainwashed.”

The source's account disagrees with the majority of the footballer's account of his childhood and added that he returned to the UK when his father remarried and relocated to the United States and also explained how he got to his "adopted" family, the Hickford.

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Timeline of Alli's troubled childhood

Sports Brief reported that Dele Alli detailed his childhood struggles with six events that happened within six years and traumatised his childhood forever.

It began with an assault by his mother's friend when he was six and involved being sent to Africa to learn discipline, selling substances at eight up to his adoption at 12.