Dele Alli: ‘England debut at Wembley would be dream come true’

“He’s really pushed on”, said goalkeeper Joe Hart of Alli, who signed for Spurs from Milton Keynes Dons for an initial fee of £5 million ($7.6 million, 6.8 million euros) in February and has made four Premier League starts to date this season, scoring once.

The 19-year-old has never played at the national stadium but could do so for the first time in a Three Lions shirt in tomorrow’s Euro 2016 qualifier. I’m always there for him as I obviously was in the England squad at the early age of 17.

“Everyone would like to see me up front, but if it’s on the right or the left, I can play in any of those positions”.

“When [the senior squad] was officially announced I was in the hotel in Monaco preparing for the game so didn’t want to think about it too much and didn’t want to look at my phone”.

“Looking at him, he’s the sort of player who’d be able to deal with anything”. “The next stage is to bring my Arsenal form into England”.

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dele Alli has described the possibility of making an appearance at Wembley as “surreal” after watching boyhood club MK Dons there in 2008.

But the former Southampton man is excited by the make-up of Hodgson’s current crop, chasing a ninth straight win in qualifying. “These are proper games, they’re not friendlies, and if he’s going to be in there for the next 10 years, why not put him in now?”

“We have to be proud of ourselves, every worldwide game is hard to play, so you’ve got to give credit to the guys”.

Rooney is a major doubt for Friday’s game after sitting out two training sessions with an ankle injury sustained during Manchester United’s 3-0 defeat at Arsenal last weekend.