I think what I hope is that people -anyone- who ignorantly slagged him off without taking a moment to think about their words will not apply the same lack of logic to other players.
We saw it with Emerson, who has shown his critics.
We saw it with Davo, which was really poor.
We're seeing with Dier and it is really, really fudging distasteful to me. Some of the bile thrown at him is appalling.
I was always too biased to see Dele's story objectively. What I had read, what I heard, what I knew, it always left me feeling he was being let down once Poch left. I remember that 2018 World Cup when Southgate played him deeper in order to get Lindgard in, and people slagged Dele's performance based NOT on the position he WAS playing, but on what they thought he always played. He suffered that at ours too. Think about it, are there two more 'anti-Dele' managers than Mourinho and Conte?
Dele was so so special, a lighting in a bottle player, alongside the likes of Glenn, Gazza, Ginola and Berba. Again, I wish him every success on his new journey...and hope that those who slagged him off so brutally will learn the lesson and perhaps be better with others...