Bayern also recently bought Alfonso Davies from Vancouver in MLS. Precocious young player with heaps of pace and raw talent. Bayern is really going all in on young athletic talent right now as they move on from their current aging core.
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Bayern also recently bought Alfonso Davies from Vancouver in MLS. Precocious young player with heaps of pace and raw talent. Bayern is really going all in on young athletic talent right now as they move on from their current aging core.
I'd love us to spend big on Sancho, the kid has it all and is going to be a star.
At what age do you not need games?
In your teens you can probably get away with inconsistent first team appearances like Gomez and Trent but I'd be surprised if Solanke has managed a handful a season over his career.
If running around the training field for a few years isn't getting you games it's time for something different at a lesser club.
I turned off Twitter about 3 months ago and shit like this is one of the reasons why.
nah, he can fuck off.
DISGRACEFUL BEHAVIOR. They are the favorites to win the quadruple this year and that's what he thinks? He can fuck off too.
It's thankfully a rare negative in our recent transfer dealings, but we owe him a duty of care and we've failed. We only got him because we were the club that assured him he wouldn't just face more loans and would be integrated into the squad. Now we're looking to loan him. Obviously one can say that no player can be promised games, or even places on the bench, and of course the player has to fight to improve and figure in the action, but the club is at least partly culpable. Hopefully he can show his ability now on loan, but I do feel we've messed him around a bit more than he deserved.
It seemed like a bad move from the get go. I liked the look of him when he first joined but he never looked quite ready or good enough to force himself into the first team.
He's had some opportunities in the first team and never quite looked good enough to rely upon. We're not currently in a position to develop someone like Solanke. He should have gone out on loan in the summer.
He's had some opportunities in the first team and never quite looked good enough to rely upon. We're not currently in a position to develop someone like Solanke. He should have gone out on loan in the summer.
I think it was a kind of greed on our part. Lots of clubs knew he was a hot young prospect. There was lots of competition to get him. It was known that the only reason he wanted to leave was to get a proper chance at a big club. But we got him more to stop other clubs from getting him. Most of his run-outs for us have come as a sub when we were in our injury-ridden, shattered, post big-game matches, when we'd run out of ideas, and we didn't play to his strengths. He would have been treated much more fairly and responsibly if we'd just backed off and let the likes of a Leicester or Everton get him and play him.
Great for him to join a side with Andros & Zaha - good practice for when he starts playing more with Mo & Mane. Assuming Roy doesn’t suddenly go long ball to him...
Agree with most of that... his agent and the player should’ve known better though.
Solanke’s sub or starting performance have been pretty poor though. He’s going to be a decent player but I just can’t see how he fits into our side. He simply doesn’t have the knack of getting into the incredibly quick interplay that our forwards do. He’s doesn’t seem to have the ability to think or react that quickly. Maybe it’s a confidence thing.
I've not seen enough of Solanke to judge the lad but there's obviously something there. Shame we had such an early exit from the League Cup, he'd have surely gotten minutes in that competition. Wasn't Rhian Brewster also given assurances that he would be given some first team opportunities? I've seen even less of Brewster, but with him fast approaching fitness, there's some difficult decisions to be made.
He reminds me a teensy bit of David Johnson (for young forumites: late 1970s striker, ex-Ipswich and Everton as well as us) - similar build, very much a powerful centre forward by instinct, but also mobile and clever and deceptively versatile tactically (but with more tricks). He needs to mature and progress but I like the options a fully-developed Solanke could offer.
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@LeTallecWiz - is Munas Dabour any good ? Tall striker and good youtube goals. Cheap backup ? Could he cut it in the PL ?
Gary Cahill as CB cover?
Free to leave in Jan.
Danny Drinkwater would be a great buy for teams fighting relegation
Free to leave in Jan.
Danny Drinkwater would be a great buy for teams fighting relegation
I get that I'm in the minority here, but I think Frankie (Solanke for those of you who are slow) is a wayyyy better player than he is being given chance to show.
If this lad was at a Southampton, or Wolves, we'd be saying he'd be an ideal backup for our admittedly well stocked forward line.
We've bought someone boss but haven't been able to develop them, unfortunately.
If we get him out on loan or sell him he'll develop into one helluva player. I'm sure of it.
If this lad was at a Southampton, or Wolves, we'd be saying he'd be an ideal backup for our admittedly well stocked forward line.
We've bought someone boss but haven't been able to develop them, unfortunately.
If we get him out on loan or sell him he'll develop into one helluva player. I'm sure of it.
FWIW I hope we can loan him out, cos he'll be boss.
He has never seemed mobile enough for our formation or technically good enough.
Bobby’s boots are hard to fill
I think most of the jan activity will be from the lower half clubs looking to avoid relegation
He's mobile enough, he just hadn't played with them often enough to know where to be & when, which is most important.
Sounds odd, but look at how many goals he's scored for England at every age range. Doing it at one age range is one thing. He's done it at every age he's played for them. This lad knows where & how to play as as striker.
If we can get him genuine minutes/game time he'll become a real top player at some point.
The problem is we can't offer him that right now cos everyone in front of him is better &/or more experienced.
I dunno, scoring goals at every level means very little when you see what it takes to play as a no 9 in our formation.
Klopp himself says scoring is the least important part for Bobby, it’s everything else he brings.
No doubt there is a striker there but I don’t ever see it being for us as long as Klopp is around
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