Bournemouth supervisor Andoni Iraola has described the battle of feelings he felt when promoting Dominic Solanke in the summertime to Tottenham for £65m, after such a profitable season on the Vitality Stadium.
Having completed with 48 factors within the 2023/24 season, Bournemouth recorded their best-ever tally within the English high flight. Solanke proved an enormous half in that success, although, scoring 19 Premier League targets, so dropping him definitely made issues tougher in the beginning of this marketing campaign.
Regardless, the membership had been anticipating fascinating of their star striker.
Bournemouth boss Iraola pleased for Solanke to problem himself
“It was at all times a robust chance that he’d depart,” Iraola concedes to FourFourTwo. “Not after simply the targets that he scored, however the performances he had final season. He was so constant.”
The actual fact the transfer went by on August 10, only a week earlier than the beginning of the season, did make issues more durable to take care of. However regardless of dropping such an entire striker, Iraola virtually welcomed the transfer – for Solanke, as a lot as something.
“He wasn’t known as up for the Euros, and that didn’t actually assist us – it made it laborious to persuade Dom to remain,” Iraola provides.
“There’s a part of you as a coach the place clearly you don’t wish to lose him as a result of your job turns into more durable. However there’s part of you that wishes him to go to a better stage, to do nicely and get the popularity he deserves. Though he performs for Spurs, we’re all nonetheless cheering for him and we’re glad he’s again within the nationwide workforce.
“It’s a problem for us all. We’ve got to interchange not simply his targets however every thing he gave to us with completely different sorts of gamers. Everybody has to contribute.”
Bournemouth have changed Solanke nicely, with Evanilson arriving for a club-record £40m. With the Brazilian up entrance and different gamers enhancing, the Cherries are undoubtedly preventing for Europe and are nicely heading in the right direction for a good bigger factors haul than their best-ever final time period – breaking the 50-point barrier is definitely close by.