Dele Alli's estranged parents' tearful plea for England star to let them back into his life
The heartbroken parents of England footballer Dele Alli today reveal their despair at having no part in the superstar’s life.

In an extraordinary interview, Dele’s mum Denise repeatedly breaks down as she tells how she now cries herself to sleep at night over the ordeal.

And his father Kehinde, a multi-millionaire businessman, tells how the only thing missing in his life is his first-born son.

Despite splitting when Dele was a child, his parents came together this week and spoke out in a desperate bid to repair their relationship with the £60,000-a-week Spurs midfielder.

As they opened up family albums to reveal happy photos of Dele’s childhood Kehinde, 47, told the Sunday Mirror: “I just do not understand what we have done wrong.

He refuses to speak to me and it feels like he’s been taken from us. But I won’t give up on getting him back.”

Dele’s mum Denise, 53, added: “I’m a very miserable person because I get so sad that Dele is missing out on his family and we’re missing out on him.

“I want to be able to hug him and let him know we all love him to bits.

“I’m not interested in his money, I’d love him the same if he worked in McDonald’s. We just want our son back.
”Dele, 20, is considered English football’s biggest rising star.

He won the prestigious PFA Young Player of the Year award at the end of last season and is now being linked with a mega-money move to Spanish giants Real Madrid.

But while his career has rocketed since leaving home-town club Milton Keynes Dons, his relationship with his parents has completely broken down.Neither has been able to see him since he signed for Tottenham in February 2015 – an estrangement which has not only broken their hearts but left them bewildered.

Recalling him leaving, Denise said: “He was in great spirits and said, ‘I love you mum’. I had no idea that would be the last time I would see him. It still leaves me shocked.”

Last August it emerged Dele would no longer wear Alli on the back of his shirt, as he said he felt “no connection” to the name.

Mum Denise denies claims she couldn't look after Dele because she was an alcoholic
The young star – red-carded against Belgian side Gent in a Europa League tie on February 23 – has also changed his mobile number and moved home.

Both Kehinde and Denise have made a series of desperate attempts to see Dele at Tottenham games, at the training ground and even by joining stadium tours.

Dele was born in Milton Keynes, Bucks, in April 1996 just over a year after his parents first met in a nightclub.

At the time Kehinde, originally from Nigeria, was studying for a Masters at De Montfort University.

The midfielder moved to Spurs in 2015 and is now linked with a move to Real Madrid
He and Denise, then a full-time mum of two, married after a whirlwind romance. They broke up three years after Dele was born. In 2000 Kehinde moved to Canada for work, returning to the UK regularly.

Despite the distance the couple stayed close, with Kehinde supporting Denise and all her children. When Dele was eight, Kehinde moved back to his home city of Lagos.

The youngster – a prince of Nigeria’s Yoruba tribe through birth – soon moved there to join him.

They lived in a 10-room mansion where Dele led a life of luxury, being waited on by three maids and attending a private £20,000-a-year international school.


Tottenham and England star Dele Alli spotted at trendy London champagne bar with girlfriend Ruby Mae
Steve Bainbridge/Sunday Mirror
Dele Alli's parents are no longer together, but met for our interview in a bid to patch up their relationship with their son
Dele later moved with Kehinde to another mansion in Houston, Texas, and was best man at his dad’s wedding to Lola in 2006.

He returned to England aged 11 after his talent for football and obsession with the game became clear.

Kehinde says: “It was hard for me to let him go but I knew it was the best thing for him and his ambition.”

After returning to Milton Keynes to live with Denise, Dele began playing for junior side City Colts.

He was quickly spotted by youth scouts from the town’s Football League club MK Dons.


Dele Alli moves best friend into £2million mansion as thank you for childhood generosity
Steve Bainbridge/Sunday Mirror
Dele is a prince in Nigeria's Yoruba tribe through his father
Denise said: “When he was about 13 Dele began training at MK Dons five days a week. So for convenience he began staying at his best friend’s house during the week, before coming home at weekends. It was hard to let him live away from home, but we didn’t have a car and I was finding it hard to get him to training myself.

“It has been said that I was suffering from alcoholism and I gave him up because I couldn’t look after him, but that is a lie. I wanted to give him the best chance of achieving his dream, but he was still my son and I was there for him whenever he needed me.

“He was never adopted by his friend’s parents – I would not have allowed it. My kids are my world.”

Dele’s parents were saddened that they missed out on seeing him sign his first professional contract for MK Dons, aged 16, as they were not invited or told it was happening.

The footballer was sent to a £20,000 a year international school in Nigeria as a child
And as time went on he gradually began to withdraw from his family.

He stopped answering phone calls, came home less, missed family events and finally cut contact completely.

Our exclusive picture of Dele with his mum shows them together the last time he spoke to her, two years ago.

In despair, Denise went to try to talk to him outside Tottenham’s White Hart Lane stadium after a match there last year. But instead of stopping to speak to her he simply walked to his car.

Wiping away copious tears, Denise recalls: “I didn’t have a ticket for the game but I went to the ground because I wanted to try and see Dele.

“I waited outside after the match and when Dele came out I quietly said to him. ‘Dele... it’s me... your mum’.

An excited young Dele plays with a new bike in 1998
“He didn’t stop. He just looked at me, said he was busy and drove off. I was in tears, it was heartbreaking.

“Some fans who had overheard asked if I was really his mum and why he was treating me like that. I told them, ‘I just don’t know’.”

“When I got home I had a call from a man who said he represented Dele. He accused me of shouting to Dele, which I didn’t, and said if I tried to do it again I’d be banned from the ground for life. It was horrible.”

Kehinde, an oil, gas, and technology entrepreneur, thinks his son is being manipulated by others for financial gain.

He has repeatedly made the 5,000-mile journey to London from his home in Houston, trying to reunite the family. He has bought tickets for a string of Spurs games home and away just so he can see Dele in the flesh and support him, including at the club’s 1-0 win over Middlesbrough earlier this month.
He has also spent a full day standing outside Tottenham’s training ground and even paid to go on a tour of White Hart Lane in the hope he would see Dele.

Kehinde says: “Not being able to see or speak to him hurts a lot. Myself and his brothers watch all his games on TV and they ask me, ‘Why won’t he see us?’

“Dele has apparently told his sister I was never there for him growing up, but I can’t understand that. He lived with me for years and I have always been there for him both emotionally and financially
Dele at his dad's mansion in Nigeria in 2003
“Up until he was an adult I paid for every holiday he ever went on and all his costs. I bought him his first car when he passed his driving test. Now he is turning his back on the family who love him.”

Kehinde adds: “I know some people will think we just want him for his money, but it couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m very wealthy in my own right and I don’t need a penny from Dele.

“I just want to be here for him and for him to know that I love
Kehinde is a multimillionaire and says he's not interested in his £60,000-a-week son's wealth
Denise, who still cuddles Dele’s childhood Chelsea FC bedspread to feel close to him, says: “Every night I say a prayer asking for God to bring him back to us. I dream about him coming home.”

Dele Alli said he had no comment to make on his parents’ claims.

Kehinde and Denise have not been paid for this interview

https://www.google.com/amp/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dele-allis-estranged-parents-issue-9918748.amp

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I knew it... this Dele boy is a bastard...

I knew he lied and I won't be surprise if in the future he's gay... he made it seems like he had no family... like he grew up in a foster home... turns out it's all bollocks...

A £20,000 school a year...
he had the opportunity to live in Nigeria, Canada and the United kingdom...
His father is a multi millionaire...

abeg... why did he lie... why did he say that no one ever cared for him apart from his friend's family (he bought a £2 million pounds home for his gay friend/lover)

kudos to the British journal... Tottenham will forever be in Arsenal shadow for this fraud of a Nigerian...

News flash Bamidele Alli... as you've used your left hand to describe your father's house... history will remember you for something bad... bastard!!!

This is quite pathetic


Dele should let go of the past and unite with his family. There is nothing like a Family

Am a die hard Manchester United fan and if there's one player from Spurs who gives me the chills, it's Bamidele Alli. This boy is just a wonder waiting to happen, i insist he's going to be an English Thierry Henry. Super player. I can see he grew up surrounded by lots of money and privileges. But such kids also suffer from alot of emotional neglect by their obviously guilty parents. There's more to raising a child than material provisions and the like. What of his emotional needs. I suspect that both were far from perfect, they better own up.
And to Alli, please it can't go on forever, this anger in your chest. Ask a trusted person known to both you and your parents to start a conversation and take it slowly from there. If you don't take care of these family problems, they can destroy you and your career. Just ask Thierry Henry and Emmanuel Adebayor.

In this liminal space you start to grapple your identity and exactly who you are. But even more so THE NEW SOCIETY you're trying to become a part of is trying to define your identity also.

Alli would realise how silly his actions have been when a white gets to address him as a black monkey.

MtuMsuper:
Am a die hard Manchester United fan and if there's one player from Spurs who gives me the chills, it's Bamidele Alli. This boy is just a wonder waiting to happen, i insist he's going to be an English Thierry Henry. Super player. I can see he grew up surrounded by lots of money and privileges. But such kids also suffer from alot of emotional neglect by their obviously guilty parents. There's more to raising a child than material provisions and the like. What of his emotional needs. I suspect that both were far from perfect, they better own up.
And to Alli, please it can't go on forever, this anger in your chest. Ask a trusted person known to both you and your parents to start a conversation and take it slowly from there. If you don't take care of these family problems, they can destroy you and your career. Just ask Thierry Henry and Emmanuel Adebayor.

wetin do Igwe my guy ?

This dele sef? So na real omo Eko on top?

This him own beef strong oh!

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There's always 2 sides to a story. . .When Dele decides to speak, we'll know exactly what went down.

lalaboi:
There's always 2 sides to a story. . .When Dele decides to speak, we'll know exactly what went down.

Don't you read the news? Google what Dele said about his parents... He said his father abandoned him and his mother was an alcoholic... And his friend's family took him in... That's why he's grateful to his friends family and his alleigience is playing for England rather than Nigeria...

Reading that he spent 4 years in Nigeria... I won't be shocked if he understands yoruba...

Dele sold that lie to gain sympathy from the english fans and FA and when e clear for him eye say nah use them use am... It'll be too late...

SIRcumalot:
wetin do Igwe my guy ?

he has apparently forsaken his parents.

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I think this is good for the hp

if the guy really lied to gain favor and English media appeal..then he may soon end it like Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayo... families come first in whatever you do..sort out this issues and you are going places...been a Yoruba by tribe makes the matter complicated for him as cultural values and norms to showcase aren't found in Dele...he should watch it because whom the gods wanna destroy makes them mad..

Oga oo... I don't even know what to say

emmanuelpopson:
if the guy really lied to gain favor and English media appeal..then he may soon end it like Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayo... families come first in whatever you do..sort out this issues and you are going places...been a Yoruba by tribe makes the matter complicated for him as cultural values and norms to showcase aren't found in Dele...he should watch it because whom the gods wanna destroy makes them mad..

This is what he said about his mom...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/03/05/the-dele-alli-story-how-a-tough-upbringing-inspired-the-rise-of/

His sister refuted his claim in this article...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1687135/tottenham-and-england-star-dele-alli-blasted-by-sister-for-snubbing-mum-for-two-years/


abeg... does that Dele look like someone abandoned till the age of 13... God will punish this fool called Dele...

I knew this guy's rise had some story behind it.


The cost of that mansion is proving he may be gay.

Parents too can be very annoying, but not enough when they show remorse.


Now I see where his stance for repping England comes from

daveP:
I knew this guy's rise had some story behind it.


The cost of that mansion is proving he may be gay.

Parents too can be very annoying, but not enough when they show remorse.


Now I see where his stance for repping England comes from

why should he lie that his parent never cater for him..!!!