Where Is Dele Alli Now? Twitch, Age, Girlfriend, Family and Club
Dele Alli is a 30-year-old English footballer, the former Tottenham and England midfielder who scored at the 2018 World Cup. He has been without a club since leaving Como in September 2025, is single after splitting from model Cindy Kimberly, and is now streaming on Twitch while he trains for a comeback.
Why is Dele Alli trending?
His new Twitch channel has passed 150,000 followers, and clips of him phoning old team-mates such as Harry Kane live on stream have gone viral, as clubs and former bosses talk about where he could play next.
Is Dele Alli on Twitch?
Yes. Dele started streaming on Twitch in late September 2026 and has streamed more than 20 hours in his first month, with his longest chat stream lasting almost five hours. He streams from his London home and out and about, watches back his old goals with fans, plays music and shows his gym sessions.
The streams that went viral were his cold calls to former team-mates. Jack Grealish, James Maddison and Eric Dier were among those he rang. Harry Kane picked up and said: “What’s going on? I’ve not spoken to you for a while, mate.” When Dele told him the chat was chanting about the Ballon d’Or, Kane turned the conversation back to him and asked if he was “working hard”. Earlier in October he also streamed from Tottenham’s stadium with YouTuber Danny Aarons.
Some fans have questioned whether streaming means he has given up on football. Dele’s answer: “Guys, you can do more than one thing.” He says he can finish training, recover and “be on stream by six”.
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Where is Dele Alli now?
Dele is a free agent and has not played a professional match since March 2025. He says he trains five or six times a week. In March 2026 Tottenham let him use their training ground for fitness work, he has hired the pitch at Windsor & Eton FC, and he was reported to have trained with West Ham in the summer.
Clubs have shown interest. His former MK Dons manager Karl Robinson says he offered him a move to League Two side Salford City this summer, and Barnet boss Dean Brennan says the “doors are open” after Dele trained at the club’s facilities. Reports earlier in 2026 also linked him with Spanish clubs including Sevilla, Getafe, Elche and Real Oviedo. None has led to a contract yet.
Has Dele Alli retired?
No. He has never announced his retirement and says he wants to play again. “I love football, it saved my life, I owe everything to football,” he told viewers.
What happened to Dele Alli?
Dele was one of the best young players in Europe at Tottenham, but his form dipped after 2019 and he became a fringe player under Jose Mourinho and then Antonio Conte. He joined Everton in January 2022 on a free transfer that could have risen to £40 million with appearances, but played only 13 Premier League games for them.
A season-long loan at Besiktas in Turkey in 2022/23 brought three goals before a hip injury, and a groin injury then kept him out of the whole 2023/24 season. His Everton contract ran out in June 2024.
Why was Dele Alli’s Como contract terminated?
Cesc Fabregas’s Como signed him on a free 18-month deal in January 2025. His only game came on 15 March 2025 at AC Milan, his first match in over two years, and he was sent off after nine minutes when a VAR review upgraded his yellow card for a tackle on Ruben Loftus-Cheek to a red. He was not in Como’s plans for the new season, and the contract was ended by mutual consent in September 2025.
Dele Alli’s mental health and The Overlap interview
In July 2023 Dele spoke to Gary Neville on The Overlap about his childhood and why his career had stalled. He said he was sexually abused at six by a friend of his mother, started smoking at seven and dealing drugs at eight, and was “sent to Africa to learn discipline”.
He also revealed he had become addicted to sleeping tablets, which he used to cope with his trauma, and that he had just spent six weeks in a mental health rehab clinic in the United States after his Besiktas loan.
If I help one person to come out and change their life, and potentially save their life…
Dele Alli on why he spoke out, The Overlap, July 2023
Who are Dele Alli’s parents?
His father, Kehinde, is a Yoruba Nigerian who moved to the United States a week after Dele was born. His English mother, Denise, raised him at first. At nine he went to live with his father in Nigeria for two years, attending an international school, before coming back to his mother in Milton Keynes.
As a young teenager he moved in with Alan and Sally Hickford, whose son played alongside him in the MK Dons youth team. Dele calls them his adoptive parents and has described them as “the family that saved my life”, although he was never legally adopted. His biological mother and a relative have since disputed parts of his account of his childhood.
Is Dele Alli Nigerian?
He is English, born in Milton Keynes, with Nigerian heritage through his father. He represented England at every level from under-17s up.
How old is Dele Alli?
Dele Alli is 30. He was born on 11 April 1996 in Milton Keynes and joined the MK Dons academy at 11.
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Who is Dele Alli’s girlfriend?
Dele is not in a confirmed relationship. He dated Spanish model Cindy Kimberly from 2022, and in June 2025 it was reported they had split after three years, with Kimberly removing him from her Instagram. That summer he was seen with Amsterdam-based model Parmida Shahbazy in Ibiza, but neither has said they are a couple.
Before that he was photographed kissing Maria Guardiola, daughter of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola, in Manchester in May 2021. His first public relationship was with model Ruby Mae, whom he was dating from 2016 during his early Tottenham years.
Does Dele Alli have a wife or children?
No. Dele has never been married and does not have any children.
Dele Alli’s career and clubs
Dele broke into the MK Dons first team as a 16-year-old and was named Football League Young Player of the Year in 2015. Tottenham signed him for £5 million in February 2015 and loaned him straight back to help MK Dons win promotion from League One.
At Spurs he won the PFA Young Player of the Year award in 2016 and 2017, was Premier League Player of the Month in January 2017 and scored BBC Match of the Day’s Goal of the Season in 2015/16 with his flick and volley against Crystal Palace. He scored 67 goals in 269 games for the club.
| Club | Years | Games | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| MK Dons | 2012 to 2015 | 88 | 24 |
| Tottenham Hotspur | 2015 to 2022 | 269 | 67 |
| Everton | 2022 to 2024 | 13 (league) | 0 |
| Besiktas (loan) | 2022 to 2023 | 15 | 3 |
| Como | 2025 | 1 | 0 |
How many trophies has Dele Alli won?
None of the major ones. He played in the 2019 Champions League final, which Tottenham lost 2-0 to Liverpool, and was part of the Spurs squad that finished runner-up in the 2021 League Cup. His medals are individual awards and promotion with MK Dons.
Did Dele Alli play for England?
Yes. He won 37 caps and scored three goals between 2015 and 2019. He made his debut against Estonia on 9 October 2015, scored a stunning first goal against France at Wembley the following month and played at Euro 2016.
His biggest moment came at the 2018 World Cup in Russia, where he headed England’s second goal in the 2-0 quarter-final win over Sweden. England went out to Croatia in the semi-final. He was dropped in October 2019 and has not played for his country since, so he was not part of the 2022 World Cup squad.
What is Dele Alli’s net worth?
There is no confirmed figure. The most-quoted estimates, from wage sites Salarysport and Capology, put it at around £38 million to £40 million, but these are unconfirmed and other sites give much lower numbers. His money comes from more than a decade of top-flight wages, including a three-year Everton contract that Spotrac lists at £5.2 million a year.
Where does Dele Alli live?
He lives in London and streams from his home there. In May 2020 he was held at knifepoint and punched by burglars who stole watches and jewellery from his north London house.
Dele Alli rumours, checked
Dele has not signed for West Ham. He was reported to have trained with them in the summer of 2026, but no contract followed.
Dele never married Cindy Kimberly. They dated for three years and split in 2025.
Dele has not signed for Barnet. He has trained at their facilities, but the Daily Mail reports he is holding out for the right opportunity rather than joining the League Two club.
Frequently Asked Questions
It was a viral craze from August 2018, when Dele celebrated a goal against Newcastle by making an OK sign, flipping it and putting it over his eye. Fans and athletes around the world tried to copy it. Dele said he learned the gesture from Jamie Vardy's children at the World Cup.
He is 6ft 2in, or 1.88m.
He went to Stantonbury Campus and then The Radcliffe School in Wolverton, both in Milton Keynes.
He grew up a Liverpool fan, and Steven Gerrard was his childhood idol.
In 2016 he stopped using his surname on his shirt, saying he felt no connection to his biological father's family.
Yes. In 2016 he got a three-match ban for punching West Brom's Claudio Yacob, and in 2020 he was banned for one match and fined £50,000 by the FA over a Snapchat video that mocked an Asian man in the context of coronavirus.