Bournemouth are set for an enormous revenue and a membership document payment for Dominic Solanke after experiences they’ve agreed phrases on a sale to Tottenham – however are stated to be annoyed by the circumstances of the transfer.
The previous Chelsea and Liverpool striker had informed Bournemouth earlier in the summertime that he could be fascinated with pursuing potential larger alternatives after 5 and a half more and more productive years on the membership.
Solanke arrived from Liverpool in January 2019 and has scored 77 occasions in 216 appearances, along with his 19-goal Premier League tally – one each different sport for the ever-present striker – comfortably his finest output within the high flight.
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Bournemouth sad at timing of Dominic Solanke departure
Now coming into his prime years along with his twenty seventh birthday only a few weeks away, there was all the time an opportunity that Solanke would appeal to curiosity from one of many Premier League’s huge boys.
But when the Day by day Mirror are to be believed, Bournemouth are relatively disgruntled that Tottenham have waited till this near the beginning of the brand new season to make their transfer for Solanke.
They write that there’s ‘some frustration’ on the timing, simply as Bournemouth have been beginning to really feel genuinely optimistic that they may be capable to maintain onto their star asset. We presume subsequently that Bournemouth is not going to themselves be looking out for any new signings of their very own regardless of Solanke’s departure, on condition that it is so near the beginning of the season and would disrupt different groups’ plans for the brand new season and the whole lot.
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Intriguingly, the Mirror add that ‘Spurs have made their transfer in mild of Richarlison’s resolution to stay in north London regardless of a profitable strategy from the Saudi Professional League’.
Maybe we’re studying an excessive amount of into that, but it surely may counsel that Tottenham have been ready to see precisely what sort of price range they’d have for his or her belated Harry Kane alternative a yr on from promoting him to Bayern Munich.
On the £55m plus £10m in add-ons that has been reported, Solanke could be Tottenham’s costliest ever signing, topping the £62.5m they paid for, erm, Tanguy Ndombele, and would crush Bournemouth’s document for a sale: the £40m they acquired from Manchester Metropolis for Nathan Ake.
Liverpool are in the meantime reportedly set to obtain a £10m minimize from Bournemouth as a part of a sell-on clause agreed within the transfer that took Solanke away from Anfield.
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