Dele Alli has warned Tottenham’s rivals that the club believe they can beat anyone now and consider themselves unlucky not to have won the Premier League in the past two seasons.
Spurs firmly stamped their mark on the footballing map with a crushing 3-1 victory against European champions Real Madrid in front of an 83,000 crowd at Wembley on Wednesday night.
Manager Mauricio Pochettino acted as though he were completely at ease at simply any old result afterwards.
Yet he knows beating Zinedine Zidane’s successive Champions League winners will have reverberated throughout European football and that the effects will be felt strongest back in the Premier League where the Argentine has been steadily growing the Tottenham’s reputation with a third place finish two seasons ago —when they ran surprise champions Leicester City close until the end — and improved on that by coming second last year.