As Mauricio Pochettino heads towards Manchester United, his former protege Dele Alli is set to make a fortune with his latest deal

Dele Alli is set to earn up to £8.3million in assets by closing his image rights company. The former England and Tottenham Hotspur golden boy was recently told by the tax man he owes £685,362 in corporation tax.

He is currently a free agent after being released by Serie A heavyweights Como last year, after only playing one match for Cesc Fabregas' side. It's now understood he will be winding up his company, Dele Alli Promotions, which is believed to have assets of up to £8.3m.

A Declaration of Solvency was recently filed after the business was put into liquidation. While this may be a set-back for the ex-England international, who was part of the Three Lions side that reached the 2018 World Cup semi-final, it will also be an enormous payday.

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It's also not the only financial iron he has in the fire. Dele, as he prefers to be known as, has two other lucrative companies to his name which derive from previous investments.

He owns six rental properties, believed to be worth more than £1.5m, which are part of his business Future Homes Investments. In addition, he also boasts another company called Dele Investments, worth a purported £336,267.

While his football career has experienced a freefall over the last three years, it's clear his other financial interests are more than enough for him to fall back on.

In 2023, Dele opened up about the abusive childhood he experienced when he was of primary school age in a heartbreaking conversation with Gary Neville on The Overlap. The ex-midfielder revealed he was sexually abused when he was only six years old, before being sent to Nigeria to live with his father "to learn discipline".

He also opened up on other awful experiences from his childhood after returning to the UK, including being hung off a bridge when he was 11 years old, as well as being made to sell drugs aged eight.

Juggling these traumas with a high-level football career also resulted in him becoming addicted to sleeping tablets which persisted throughout his career. Looking back, 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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