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Daily Mirror
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Tom Victor

Dele Alli's rise and fall from England World Cup stardom to Turkey transfer aged just 26

When England fans watched Dele Alli head Raheem Sterling's cross beyond Robin Olsen to send the Three Lions into the World Cup semi-finals, few of them would have been able to predict the midfielder's subsequent fall from grace.

After a brief but largely unproductive few months at Everton, the former MK Dons starlet is on his way to Besiktas on a season-long loan. Just five years have passed since he won the second of his two PFA Young Player of the Year awards, but a return to Gareth Southgate's England squad looks further away than ever.

It represents a remarkably fast fall from grace for a player who looked at one point as though he could do anything in the game.

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