Topic: Dominic Solanke

[Rush 82]

Excellent goals from him today - especially the headers - superb

[Knight]

MOTD put up a stat saying he was at a 20% chance conversion rate, which, if true, means he's running hot at the moment I imagine. Still, if he ends up with 15+ league goals for the season that'll be very impressive. Not easy scoring goals in the PL for team like Bournemouth.

[disgraced cake]

MOTD put up a stat saying he was at a 20% chance conversion rate, which, if true, means he's running hot at the moment I imagine. Still, if he ends up with 15+ league goals for the season that'll be very impressive. Not easy scoring goals in the PL for team like Bournemouth.

He's already on 11 goals after half a season so he should be aiming for 20+

I always felt he'd be one who came good under the right conditions, and it still took him time at Bournemouth, had to go down to the Championship for a couple of years but coming into his prime now he's doing better than ever. It's ended up one of those transfers where everyone was a winner, if we have a sell-on clause we could end up getting a good few million on top of the 20 odd they paid us for him.

[Too early for flapjacks?]

Only 1 goal behind Salah and the same number as Son, and 2 more than Watkins. And 11 more than Højlund.

[Clayton Bigsby]

Not looking like we pulled their pants down any more. Good for him, hope he gets to 20+

[RyanBabel19]

Well done Solanke, scoring some class goals. Always seemed a good lad and its good to see him succeeding

[GreatEx]

. It's ended up one of those transfers where everyone was a winner,

Exactly. Donald Trump would hate it, but I love a deal where all parties benefit. I doubt many LFC fans would regret this sale, he wasn't the right fit and probably wouldn't have hit his current heights playing for us. I was bit surprised we moved him on so early, but Bournemouth were willing to stump up the cash and Dom maybe saw the warning signs of being stuck in a Big Club loan cycle, so it was smart play by everyone concerned.

[Historical Fool]

It is great to see him doing well. YNWA.

[an fear dearg]

Buy back and a 20% sell on clause. He is really doing very well and it’s great to see. Seems like a decent lad so you like to seem fellas like him succeeding. YNWA Dom

[Knight]

MOTD put up a stat saying he was at a 20% chance conversion rate, which, if true, means he's running hot at the moment I imagine. Still, if he ends up with 15+ league goals for the season that'll be very impressive. Not easy scoring goals in the PL for team like Bournemouth.

Think that's 15 now, and it was a bit of a worldie too. Lad might get 20+

[amir87]

Ridiculous goal today. He’s turning into a brilliant striker.

[FlashGordon]

You could tell from his time here he was always going to be good. He was the original xG darling if I remember correctly. Pity we couldn't keep hold of him.

[whtwht]

No buyback??

[disgraced cake]

Was always going to be hard for him to make his mark at Liverpool as a young, usually 3rd choice striker. In fact he struggled a bit at the start with Bournemouth but he looks every bit a Premier League striker now, coming into his best years too, I really like him. The move obviously looked to benefit Liverpool financially but he's turned into a bargain for Bournemouth. Excellent work from our future sporting director.

[FlashGordon]

Was always going to be hard for him to make his mark at Liverpool as a young, usually 3rd choice striker. In fact he struggled a bit at the start with Bournemouth but he looks every bit a Premier League striker now, coming into his best years too, I really like him. The move obviously looked to benefit Liverpool financially but he's turned into a bargain for Bournemouth. Excellent work from our future sporting director.

It's funny how some were trying to lump him in with Ibe and Smith as a reason to disparage Hughes 

[disgraced cake]

It's funny how some were trying to lump him in with Ibe and Smith as a reason to disparage Hughes 

Yeah, I saw some people do the same and was bewildered. If you'd said so up until about 2021 I'd have said fair enough, but since then he's taken them out of the Championship and kept them in the Premier League comfortably. God knows what he's worth to Bournemouth. Would be nice if we had a sell on clause though.

Ibe was probably in that Solanke bracket of potential, unfortunately for him it's just not worked out. Smith was only a relatively cheap buy.

[Knight]

Scores again. Best team to do it too as well Dunno if Toney should be in the England squad ahead of him at this point. Gonna be good for 20 PL goals in a pretty average team. Mightily impressive.

[buttersstotch]

Scores again. Best team to do it too as well Dunno if Toney should be in the England squad ahead of him at this point. Gonna be good for 20 PL goals in a pretty average team. Mightily impressive.

Think he's a lock for England soon, probably likely when he joins a bigger club in the summer.

Really happy for him, I thought he was good when he was here but he needed to play & we couldn't afford him the minutes, as he was very raw. Really happy he's kicked on.

[Black Bull Nova]

Good player but not our style, would have fitted Everton but they would have made him shite

[rob1966]

Good player but not our style, would have fitted Everton but they would have made him shite

Yeah, we (the club) knew he was a player, sadly just didn't suit us - glad to see him doing so well for Bournemouth.

[Keith Lard]

He’s turning into a superb striker. Well done to Bournemouth for persisting with him, and most importantly well done to Dom for getting his head down and doing his talking on the pitch. Couldn’t have been easy. Shows that development is not linear and the impact of confidence and the right setup. Some proper human lessons for us all in this one. He deserves a call up to England

[Knight]

Good player but not our style, would have fitted Everton but they would have made him shite

He wasn’t our style. He is more our style now. He’d be a great backup to Nunez. Obviously he’d be far too expensive to justify signing him to be a depth option.

[thaddeus]

Scores again. Best team to do it too as well Dunno if Toney should be in the England squad ahead of him at this point. Gonna be good for 20 PL goals in a pretty average team. Mightily impressive.

I think he's going to be like Darren Bent was in 2010.  Bent was the second highest scoring English player that season (just behind Rooney) despite playing for a mid-table Sunderland team.  He missed out on the World Cup squad even though we weren't exactly blessed with loads of options beyond Rooney - Capello took Crouch, Defoe and Heskey in the end.

Kane is a shoe-in but beyond that it should be wide open.  I'd guess Watkins will go and then it's between Toney, Wilson and Solanke.  Southgate doesn't seem to rate Solanke though as he even called up Nketiah ahead of him.