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Dele Alli stands to pocket up to £8.3million in assets by dissolving his image rights company. The former England and Tottenham Hotspur star was recently handed a bill by the taxman for £685,362 in corporation tax. He is currently without a club following his release by Serie A giants Como last year, having made just one appearance for Cesc Fabregas' outfit. It is now understood he will be winding up his company, Dele Alli Promotions, which is believed to hold assets of up to £8.3m.
A Declaration of Solvency was recently lodged following the firm's liquidation. While this may represent a setback for the former England international, who featured in the Three Lions squad that reached the 2018 World Cup semi-final, it will also offer a considerable windfall.
This is not the only financial avenue he has open to him, either. Dele, as he prefers to be known, has two further profitable companies to his name, stemming from previous investments.
He owns six rental properties, thought to be valued at more than £1.5m, which fall under his business Future Homes Investments. Furthermore, he also has another venture called Dele Investments, reportedly worth £336,267.
While his footballing fortunes have declined sharply over the past three years, it is evident that his wider financial portfolio provides more than a comfortable safety net.
In 2023, Dele discussed the abusive childhood he endured during his primary school years in a harrowing interview with Gary Neville on The Overlap.
The former midfielder disclosed he was sexually abused at just six years old, before being dispatched to Nigeria to live with his father "to learn discipline".
He also revealed other dreadful experiences from his childhood following his return to the UK, including being suspended from a bridge aged 11, as well as being forced to sell drugs at eight years old.
Balancing these traumas with an elite football career also led to him developing an addiction to sleeping tablets which continued throughout his playing days.
Reflecting on this, he said: "I got addicted to sleeping tablets and it's probably a problem that not only I have. I think it's something that's going around more than people realise in football.
"With our schedule you have a game, you have to be up early in the morning to train, you have all the adrenaline and stuff so sometimes to take a sleeping tablet and be ready for the next day is fine.
"But when your dopamine system and you're as broken as I am it can obviously have the reverse effect, because it does work for the problems you want to deal with and that is the problem – it works until it doesn't. I definitely abused them.
"I was never really dealing with the problem which was growing and the traumas I had, the feelings I was holding on to; I tried to deal with it all by myself.
"My adopted family, my brother, there were times they would take me aside crying, asking me to just speak to them about what I was feeling, but I couldn't do it.
"I lost myself for a few years, I was just turning everyone away, when I had the family that saved my life crying, asking me to tell them what's wrong, and I just didn't want to do it."
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