Dominic Solanke

[the wes 7,212]

50 minutes ago, Leif said:

 

Can anyone name 1 forward player from our last 5 or 6 youth teams worse than Solanke? 

Carlton Cole

[Fernando 6,585]

He might come good for them. 

Klopp gives youth a chance. 

What a loss from us. 

[Leif 6,006]

Did people just not pay attention to the fact he scored 3 open goals in 30 appearances in all competitions on loan at Vitesse? He's a striker. Lewis Baker is more prolific.

Even Lucas Piazon is superior.

Yes, Solanke will be better there than he would have been here. No, he won't be any better than Jermaine Beckford. He was the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of the youth teams he played in. Every player around him was dynamic, with so much to offer. Solanke doesn't have one refined trait. Not one. All he'll develop is a decent strike & the movement of Costa if he's lucky.

This is how annoyed I am at us losing a bad player to a rival; I can't even remember or imagine what I was like over Mata. I swore a lot regarding Cech. I'll be annoyed if any player from any of our youth teams ends up at a rival. WE fed you. OUR club was the one who turned you from an average person living with an average family in an average area into millionaires.

[manpe 10,861]

I'm inclined to agree with Leif here. How do you score so little as a striker in a league that fooled the world into thinking that Afonso Alves was world class?

[Spike 12,049]

14 minutes ago, manpe said:

I'm inclined to agree with Leif here. How do you score so little as a striker in a league that fooled the world into thinking that Afonso Alves was world class?

That was also about a decade and a half ago, don't forget.

[Leif 6,006]

That time in the league there was Davids, Huntelaar, Vertonghen, Sneijder, Stam, Heitinga, Suarez, plus handfulls of defensive walls & great midfielders who controlled the game.

There's not even 3 players in the league now who'll be half of any of those players, maybe 1, and Solanke was still basically the worst forward in the league. He had nobodies to score against. And Baker has taken full advantage of that. Piazon took full advantage of that. This guy couldn't.

[-Kaplan- 410]

4 hours ago, Pizy said:

So he's going from one big club that he'll never get a game for to another where he'll be very lucky to get any? Good luck, mate...

Liverpool isn't a big club. 

[Special Juan 28,088]

More dead stock gone and good money, the clear is out is happening for real which is good to see.

[lucio 5,418]

tammy is 100x better, and even he probably isnt good enough. no loss

[Clockwork 1,794]

Smart decision on his part, the fact Terry is still the only youth player to make it at Chelsea says more then enough.

I believe this will become continuing trend for Acadamy graduates.

[Fernando 6,585]

Disappointing because I liked him a lot. 

I think he's going to be a hit in Liverpool. 

And then we will blame the club for not doing enough to keep him. 

[Jenks6 3]

Chelsea give these lads a fantastic education up until the point that they need competitive football but then get no chances. Solanke letting his contract run out so that he can leave is a shrewd decision to make, and one that more lads in the academy will make if they know what's good for them. Also there's a lot of revisionism going on in this thread, Solanke has excelled as he's progressed through the age groups and was ahead of Abraham until their loans took them in different directions.