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Player Dominic Solanke

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Tottenham Massive said:
He was a typical West Ham level signing. If they'd bought him nobody would have been the least bit surprised.
When Levy opened his mouth and said the new stadium would be a game changer he was on the button.
Harry Kane to Dominic Solanke is the fucking mother of all game changers.
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He needed a good season with Bournemouth to attract a bigger club, he did it, and we took the bait seemingly with ignoring the rest of his Premier League career.

You're right, West Ham, maybe Fulham or Forest, dare I say it, Bournemouth.

I think Liverpool got him for free, well they had to pay a tribunal-set fee of around £3 million whatever that is, but cheap anyway when his contract expired with Chelsea, then Bournemouth bought him from Liverpool for £19m, they got relegated, then got promoted for the 2022/23 season, in the 23/24 is when he had his one good season, and we needed a CF.

So in 2024/25 we spend £55m plus £10m add ons + wages. he's got a contract on what £100,000 per week? Until 2030 if he wants it, will probably score something like 8 or 10 PL goals per season if he stays fit.
 
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Someone else posted about the dearth of quality strikers in the Prem right now.

Solanke was probably the best of available strikers in summer 2024. It seems as if Thiago will work out better but look at the list of strikers brought in. Anyone wanted Matsen or Neketiah at thirty million? Zirkzee or Fullkrug?
Yeah, we might have got Vlahovic or Gyokeres for a little more but the latter is hardly setting the Prem alight in a better team.
Coming off his best season and someone who fit Ange’s scheme, Solanke seemed like a reasonable gamble. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
 
JackJones’Locker said:
Someone else posted about the dearth of quality strikers in the Prem right now.

Solanke was probably the best of available strikers in summer 2024. It seems as if Thiago will work out better but look at the list of strikers brought in. Anyone wanted Matsen or Neketiah at thirty million? Zirkzee or Fullkrug?
Yeah, we might have got Vlahovic or Gyokeres for a little more but the latter is hardly setting the Prem alight in a better team.
Coming off his best season and someone who fit Ange’s scheme, Solanke seemed like a reasonable gamble. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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It’s not as bad a miss to me as some others.

Solanke is a good footballer with a great fitness record and it went to complete shit under us. Scouting team can’t predict that without the right data. And we seem like a club that doesn’t understand fitness.
 
JackJones’Locker said:
Someone else posted about the dearth of quality strikers in the Prem right now.

Solanke was probably the best of available strikers in summer 2024. It seems as if Thiago will work out better but look at the list of strikers brought in. Anyone wanted Matsen or Neketiah at thirty million? Zirkzee or Fullkrug?
Yeah, we might have got Vlahovic or Gyokeres for a little more but the latter is hardly setting the Prem alight in a better team.
Coming off his best season and someone who fit Ange’s scheme, Solanke seemed like a reasonable gamble. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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And of all those you listed, he's by far the best presser too, which was such an important quality in a striker for Ange. Problem was he forgot to tell him not to press literally every single second he was on the pitch last season and we broke him.
 
This club is a shit show sometimes. What is the problem with coming out and telling us what they know. Nobody is going to throw shade at them if they get it slightly wrong but this pantomime around Solanke is tiresome and completely avoidable.
 
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McCOYS said:
He needed a good season with Bournemouth to attract a bigger club, he did it, and we took the bait seemingly with ignoring the rest of his Premier League career.

You're right, West Ham, maybe Fulham or Forest, dare I say it, Bournemouth.

I think Liverpool got him for free, well they had to pay a tribunal-set fee of around £3 million whatever that is, but cheap anyway when his contract expired with Chelsea, then Bournemouth bought him from Liverpool for £19m, they got relegated, then got promoted for the 2022/23 season, in the 23/24 is when he had his one good season, and we needed a CF.

So in 2024/25 we spend £55m plus £10m add ons + wages. he's got a contract on what £100,000 per week? Until 2030 if he wants it, will probably score something like 8 or 10 PL goals per season if he stays fit.
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Tells you how bad was and is the striker market is, if anything.

Bar City who managed to bag an absolute freak have a look at the sort of strikers our rivals have signed over the previous seasons.
 
Muani and Richarlison have both done alright the last few games. Muani is passing the eye test. Richarlison never passes the eye test but he's scoring nearly every game and number wise he's actually one of the best goalscorers in the league atm (Crazy i know!).

Solanke will struggle to get back in the team. He's a far better footballer than richarlison but he doesn't score as many goals as him! Is Solanke a better footballer than Muani? I'm not sure. I think its close between the 3 of them, they all have their own attributes. Solanke is the hardest working, the best at pressing and holding the ball up. Richarlison is the best goalscorer. Muani is the best dribbler and easily the most talented of the 3. Whichever one of them is on form will start so good position to be in. But this idea that we are badly missing Solanke and that he'll walk back into our first team is wrong. It felt like that a few weeks ago when Muani was injured and Richarlison was totally out of form. But not right now when both are doing ok.
 
Timberwolf said:
And of all those you listed, he's by far the best presser too, which was such an important quality in a striker for Ange. Problem was he forgot to tell him not to press literally every single second he was on the pitch last season and we broke him.
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Watch big Dom press defences last season

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Don't listen to posters on here who are talking of Solanke being a signing for a lesser club, whilst they probably thought signing an absolutely bang average Savinho would have shown intent. Rubbish.

Any such poster knows zip.
 
McCOYS said:
But there could have been someone else, don't say Solanke was the best player in the world that was gettable throughout all the football leagues in the world. He's an ordinary plater with one good season to his name.
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Like who though?

I mean ideally Victor Osimhen was the one who was being shopped around who was available but then again his wage demands were out of this world, if Utd and Chelsea stepped away from him it tells you that we wouldn't be able to get anywhere near what he wanted.

Other than that who else was there?
 
Shadydan said:
Like who though?

I mean ideally Victor Osimhen was the one who was being shopped around who was available but then again his wage demands were out of this world, if Utd and Chelsea stepped away from him it tells you that we wouldn't be able to get anywhere near what he wanted.

Other than that who else was there?
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I don't know, I'm not a scout, but I don't recall any sort of clamber by clubs from all over the world to sign Solanke. He's a mid table player, surely he wasn't the best available CF in the whole world, rather he had a good season prior and was a lazy signing IMO. If he didn't score 19 PL goals the previous season, but instead his usual 6 or 9 we'd wouldn't have signed him.
 
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McCOYS said:
I don't know, I'm not a scout, but I don't recall any sort of clamber by clubs from all over the world to sign Solanke. He's a mid table player, surely he wasn't the best available CF in the whole world, rather he had a good season prior and was a lazy signing IMO. If he didn't score 19 PL goals the previous season, but instead his usual 6 or 9 we'd wouldn't have signed him.
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Sure there wasn't and you really don't need to be a professional scout to look around Europe and realise there's a massive dearth of talent in that position nowadays. At the end of the day Solanke represented one of the better strikers on the market that Summer because of the season he had however like I have said in the past and like I keep saying it represents the state of the striker market these days, it's what it is.
 
Don Pedro said:
Muani and Richarlison have both done alright the last few games. Muani is passing the eye test. Richarlison never passes the eye test but he's scoring nearly every game and number wise he's actually one of the best goalscorers in the league atm (Crazy i know!).

Solanke will struggle to get back in the team. He's a far better footballer than richarlison but he doesn't score as many goals as him! Is Solanke a better footballer than Muani? I'm not sure. I think its close between the 3 of them, they all have their own attributes. Solanke is the hardest working, the best at pressing and holding the ball up. Richarlison is the best goalscorer. Muani is the best dribbler and easily the most talented of the 3. Whichever one of them is on form will start so good position to be in. But this idea that we are badly missing Solanke and that he'll walk back into our first team is wrong. It felt like that a few weeks ago when Muani was injured and Richarlison was totally out of form. But not right now when both are doing ok.
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Am I right in saying Richardson is 17 goals in his last 25 prem appearances ...
Edit. Just checked..17 in 24?
Just please stay fit ?
 
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