Dele Alli set for £8.3m payday regardless of ex-Tottenham star nonetheless being a free agent

Dele Alli is set to pocket a major windfall worth up to £8.3million to set the free agent up for life despite being a free agent for the past year

Dele Alli is poised to pocket up to £8.3million with the free agent to be set up for life. The former England and Tottenham Hotspur starlet has been without a club since leaving Como in 2025.

Alli, 30, was recently handed a whopping bill by the taxman for £685,362 in corporation tax but don’t fret for the 37-time England international’s finances – he is set for a huge payday by dissolving his image rights company.

Currently without a club after being released by Serie A side Como last year, having made just one appearance for Cesc Fabregas’ side, it is now understood that Alli will be winding up his firm, Dele Alli Promotions, which is thought to hold assets of up to £8.3m.

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A Declaration of Solvency was recently lodged after the business entered liquidation. While this may represent a blow for the former England international, as it means the company will no longer be trading, it will simultaneously allow him to pick up a considerable windfall.

Dele, as he prefers to be known, also has two additional profitable companies bearing his name, stemming from earlier investments. He holds six rental properties, believed to be valued at more than £1.5m, which fall under his business Future Homes Investments. Furthermore, he also has another company called Dele Investments, reportedly worth £336,267.

Dele featured in the Three Lions squad that reached the 2018 World Cup semi-final. While his footballing career has been in sharp decline over the past three years, it is evident that his other financial interests provide more than a comfortable safety net to fall back on.

Back in 2023, Dele bravely opened up about the harrowing abuse he suffered during his primary school years in a deeply moving chat with Gary Neville on The Overlap. The former midfielder disclosed that he had been sexually abused at just six years old, before being shipped off to Nigeria to live with his father “to learn discipline”.

He also shed light on further traumatic experiences following his return to the UK, including being dangled off a bridge at the age of 11, as well as being forced to peddle drugs at just eight years old.

Battling these deeply personal traumas while maintaining a top-flight football career ultimately led to him developing an addiction to sleeping tablets, a struggle that dogged him throughout his time in the sport. 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.”