Six players whose talents vanished into thin air as Dele Alli faces Everton axe

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Harry Kane leading Tottenham's charge up to the table and England's crusade to Qatar to bring 56 years of hurt (God, is it really that many?) to an end.Alli took to the Premier League like a duck to water after arriving from MK Dons as a fresh-faced sprout in 2015, bagging 32 goals in his first two seasons - including a wizardly swivelled-volley against Crystal Palace in January 2016 to grab the world's attention.Sir Alex Ferguson began name-dropping him as the player he'd go after if he were still ferociously chomping gum on the Old Trafford sidelines, and who could blame him?

Alli's ceiling seemed stratospheric. But his form inexplicably fell off a cliff a couple of years later and the midfielder has looked a shell of his dynamite former self ever since.READ MORE: Frank Lampard mutters to assistant after Dele Alli horror miss in Everton friendly lossHe moved to Everton on a free transfer in January in a bid to resurrect his career, having lost both his Tottenham and England first team spots long ago, but even in a struggling Toffees team crying out for a little invention and dynamism, Alli has been almost pointlessly ineffective.And now, with rumours Everton are looking to offload him, Daily Star Sport has taken a look back at six other players whose talents vanished in similarly bizarre style.Fernando Torres arrived at Chelsea as arguably the Premier League's most fearsome striker having torn defenders apart for three seasons at Liverpool, scoring a whopping 81 goals as the golden-haired hero of the Kop.But the Spaniard could barely hit a barn door with a banjo wearing blue, infamously taking more than 900 minutes to register his first goal for the club.