Dominic Solanke

DJ said:
Erm, it very much is in the context of what I was responding to with the Solanke and Surridge post from August 2021.

You can't just then ignore that because you're making a point on his form over the past few months to vindicate whatever angle you're on.

I was discussing his recent trajectory since August 2021 with a small look at "one of our own" Sam Surridge. Who has gone on to do very little since the recruitment team sold him for a very decent price.
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Conveniently ignoring the fact Solanke puts his goal improvement down to Iraola…

What would he know!
 
Neil Dawson said:
Conveniently ignoring the fact Solanke puts his goal improvement down to Iraola…

What would he know!
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I haven’t ignored anything. I replied the first time around…




DJ said:
Yes we’re a more attacking team, with more attacking quality players, who now create more chances in a team that attacks more, so he scores more goals.
Credit goes to the scouting and signing of Solanke, the players who support him signed by the recruitment team and the manager signed by the recruitment team.

That’s what you’re saying?

Nothing to do with the hard work of the player, who has scored across the Championship and Premier League under 3 different managers, in squads that have changed dramatically in that time. But he’s stepped up and not been replaced like the others.
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Not really sure what the big argument is. Obviously it's going to be a whole constellation of factors, including his own development as a player, coaching/tactics, the higher quality of his teammates giving him service, etc.
At the risk of sounding like Bill/Brian/NewOld: bottom line is he's putting balls in the back of the net.
 
Neil Dawson said:
100% this. Andoni said he couldn’t understand why Dom was doing some of the deep and flank work that GON made him do and told him I just want you in the box and we are reaping the benefits of that as, more importantly, is Dom.
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When did he say this? He said he was great last year and that he mens more to the team than just a goalscorer.

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Andoni Iraola reveals secret to Dominic Solanke's best season at Bournemouth

Andoni Iraola believes that there’s plenty more to Dominic Solanke’s game than just goals. The Bournemouth striker has enjoyed a brilliant season on the south coast with 15 goals alread…
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Neil Dawson said:
Well. He puts it down to the way he is being encouraged to play so i would be listening to that before anyone else’s opinion for obvious reasons.
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It’s a different topic of conversation to what was being had. But as long as you’re happy.
 
DJ said:
or strikers run back to the half way line more often so they cover more distance…
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I think the point is that Dom's heat map is highly-concentrated in/near the opponent's box. I think this means that he not only runs a lot, but he runs a lot in the final third in and around the box.
If it were running back to the halfway line, the heat map would be more dispersed, as it is for virtually all the other players shown.
 
canadiancherry said:
I think the point is that Dom's heat map is highly-concentrated in/near the opponent's box. I think this means that he not only runs a lot, but he runs a lot in the final third in and around the box.
If it were running back to the halfway line, the heat map would be more dispersed, as it is for virtually all the other players shown.
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It’s dispersed over a greater area for all the other players as he’s on the only striker on the list.
 
DJ said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1761040486180258129
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He’s right. Solanke always had the raw ingredients, many managers have said that. It’s interesting it’s only been one manager that has got him scoring at the top level of football and I think that he identified the reason in his quote

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All that energy he expended playing deep away from goal has been refocused into being in the box. Something Iraola said at the start of the season he wanted to get Dom to do. A great success story all round.
 
Is that really the epiphany moment you think it is?

He primarily played as a 10 under Howe, this was the best way to get him in the team and get the best for the team, same as King playing wide. You couldn’t play either of those as a 9 at that stage instead of Callum Wilson, it just wouldn’t have made any sense leaving one out.

So the only like for like comparison is briefly Scott Parker and then Gary O’Neil who both played him as a 9 in the Harry Kane “roam around” mould.
 
DJ said:
Is that really the epiphany moment you think it is?

He primarily played as a 10 under Howe, this was the best way to get him in the team and get the best for the team, same as King playing wide. You couldn’t play either of those as a 9 at that stage instead of Callum Wilson, it just wouldn’t have made any sense leaving one out.

So the only like for like comparison is briefly Scott Parker and then Gary O’Neil who both played him as a 9 in the Harry Kane “roam around” mould.
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I wasn’t seeking an epiphany moment. Great man managers make players more effective and credit the players. We saw that for years with Eddie too. Poor man managers go on sky sports to take personal credit for a keeper error and have players sack it off when it comes to keeping them their job
 
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