Kyle Walker has urged Tottenham and England teammate Dele Alli to "keep it simple" and said this season could be crucial for the 20-year-old.
Midfielder Alli was named PFA Young Player of the Year after scoring 10 Premier League goals in a breakthrough season after joining Spurs from League One MK Dons.
Walker knows the award can be a mixed blessing, having won it in 2012 but struggled with the weight of expectation it brought.
"Dele is coping with it tremendously well for someone of such a young age. He deals with it and takes everything in his stride," he told The Evening Standard.
"It's like he is playing in the park and it's fantastic to see someone playing with a smile on their face, enjoying every moment.
"I remember getting the Young Player of the Year and trying to follow it up the next season. That's what makes you a very good player or an average player."
Asked what advice he had for Alli, Walker said: "I think he just needs to keep it simple sometimes, which the manager [Mauricio Pochettino] does tell him to.
"But when he looks to express himself in the final third, you can't have a go at him for doing that because, more times than not, it does come off and he does get a lot of goals."
But Walker warned that "everyone is going to do their homework on him this season," adding: "He's a threat, and as soon as you become seen as something like that teams will try to work out ways to stop you.
"But Dele is an intelligent boy. He is streetwise and seems to know how to get away from players in tight situations. He has the cleverness to go past people and if he wants to take a shot, he does."
Former England manager Sam Allardyce dropped Alli from the starting lineup for his only match in charge, a win in Slovenia, while Pochettino rested him in the victory over Crystal Palace in August.
"We are all human, you can't be 10 out of 10 every week," Walker said. "Dele does fantastically well for Tottenham and in the last game for England, I felt he changed the game after he came on.
"He was turning on the back foot and running at people. Hopefully he can continue his form for Tottenham and England and we can see big things from him."