Dele Alli Tweet About Harry Winks Five Years Ago Was Spot On

Dele Alli might not be very good at diving or being discreet at giving his teammate the finger but the Spurs and England midfielder is good at pretty much everything else on the football field, and apparently predicting the future too.

Last season Dele Alli was pretty much untouchable as one of the Premier League's best players and now England's latest great hope. The Spurs midfielder was even being linked with a move to the likes of PSG and Real Madrid.

It's an amazing rise in such a short period of time for the 21 year-old who has only been at Tottenham for the last two years since his move from League One MK Dons.

_{Dele Alli's sweary finger of doom could have got him in a lot more trouble. Image: PA}

This season life hasn't been quite as cushty for him with more headlines about last weekend's dive against Huddersfield and the finger he gave Kyle Walker when playing for England that sees him banned for Thursday's game.

That suspension and Fabian Delph's injury has led to another Spurs central midfielder, Harry Winks, to getting his first senior international call up. And Alli's tweet from five years ago predicting Winks rise to an England cap is going viral:

It's quite the shout from Alli, who would have still been at the 'Dons' at the time of the tweet, to predict Winks, then just 16, to be a future England player especially as he was still four years from his Spurs debut.

The tweet actually went viral last year too when Winks scored on his first start for Mauricio Pochettino's side in a dramatic 3-2 win over West Ham.

_{Winks has featured in seven Spurs games so far this season. Image: PA}

Winks is clearly showing himself to be a decent performer however his England call up does show an extreme lack of talent in central midfield simply because of the small amount of football he's got before joining Gareth Southgate's team.

The 21 year-old has only started three games for his team this season with one of those in the Carabao Cup and only one in the Premier League and has only made 39 senior appearances in four season for Spurs with many coming off the bench.

Even Alli couldn't have predicted his mate's first call up being so soon.

Topics: Spurs, Harry Winks, England, Dele Alli, Twitter

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