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Player Dominic Solanke
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Comments from Carragher (and others) that the price was too high..
Can't deny that the money we were willing to spend on him is more than many of us thought.. Personally, when the noise was that Bournemouth weren't going to accept less than 65 million, I wrote off any chance of it happening.
However, he's either the perfect fit or he isn't.
If the club don't believe that he's going to be the perfect fit to play centre forward for a team that wins trophies over the next 6 years. Then we shouldn't have gone for him even if he was 10 million.
However, if they do believe he is that.. Well then that was the price.. And you can't be self conscious about wether or not people think it's too high.
Can't deny that the money we were willing to spend on him is more than many of us thought.. Personally, when the noise was that Bournemouth weren't going to accept less than 65 million, I wrote off any chance of it happening.
However, he's either the perfect fit or he isn't.
If the club don't believe that he's going to be the perfect fit to play centre forward for a team that wins trophies over the next 6 years. Then we shouldn't have gone for him even if he was 10 million.
However, if they do believe he is that.. Well then that was the price.. And you can't be self conscious about wether or not people think it's too high.
It wasn't realistic to expect him for much less than we paid.......
Richy 60m
Nunez 85m
Hojlund 72m
None of which are HG or could boast the season Dom has just had.
I'm just pleased that the odd 5m extra didn't deter us from getting our primary target.
Genuinely, how often do things work out this way? The number of times a player who is central to a lesser team joins a ‘top’ side who create more and said player ends up being MORE productive .. I’d say it’s pretty low? And outnumbered by the times their productivity actually goes down.
Not saying he won’t, but football really isn’t as simple as X create more chances so Z will score more goals. Bournemouth actually did create a great amount of chances for him anyway IIRC, we will struggle to generate much more than 20 + xG for a striker.
Finished top 5 in PL goals last year. Sounds pretty big for our needs, hopefully fits!
Well, I understand your point, but I think we’ll see about that. I have no reason to think Solanke won’t be similarly productive in our side. Of course he’s not likely to get as many minutes with so much competition as compared to his last club but we’ll see…
I don't think Solanke scores more because he's going from the centre-piece at Bournemouth to a Spurs team that should create more chances. Tbh I'd expect that to even out really because he will play less games and get subbed more.
I would expect him to score more because og his own career trajectory. He had clicked at the championship level but it certainly took him an extra season to adjust that to the pace of the premier league. Now that it has I'd expect him to score more goals because of his own upward curve. Whether that's with us or Bournemouth.
Its best if we score all around. Son / Johnson / Kulu / Mads all over 10 goals this season along with Solanke scoring 40.
Jamie Vardy at 57 years of age is a better striker than Solanke
Good to see we’re writing solanke off after 64 minutes
Aren’t you the div that didn’t rate Kane? I don’t think your opinion on strikers has much credibility, in fact I can confirm it absolutely doesn’t
Ideally Solsnke should have started on the bench. Long way to go.
So now that we got our 65 million striker, why do we have the exact same issues as we did last season? Zero improvement whatsoever and unlikely we improve at all from last season with him
Got to give him more than a game. Just the same as if he had scored a hat-trick this evening, it wouldn't have suddenly made him world class.
Do you think you might be overreacting just slightly?
WTF is this? Shitting on Solanke who was one of our best players tonight
He always overreacts. He is very emotional. Kind of like my Ex
You wanted a mobile striker & shit on Kane for years .. well you got one. He moves about, he works hard, he runs channels .. but he's not top level. To get both you need to strike gold and there's basically none of them about.
He's alright .. like I said previously good for 10-15 goals this season.