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What Dominic Solanke has previously said about Arsenal after claims he’s close to joining Tottenham

This summer, Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke is said to be on the shortlist of a number of clubs including north London rivals Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur.

Although, as Mikel Arteta ponders whether to sign a forward before the end of August, Tottenham are pushing to sign Solanke, believing he’🅷s the perfect fit for A🎐nge Postecoglou.

To that end, Solanke has said yes to joining Tottenham, presumably also concluding that thiဣs is the perfect next step for his career.

Solanke is often celebrated f💜or his excellenꦜt pressing as well as his goalscoring, traits that should make him very popular in N17.

Of course, the English🌠man’s £65m buy-out cl🦂ause could still be an issue – would Spurs be willing to pay such a figure?

Photo by Robin Jones - AFC Bournemouth/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images
Photo by Robin Jones – AFC Bournemouth/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images

Solanke scored 19 Premier League goals last season, sig🐭nalling a clear improvement, but a deal at that price wo♊uld still be something of a risk.

That being said, Solanke’s previous comments on g🐭rowing up as aꦦn Arsenal fan may prove to be a bigger sticking point for some Tottenham supporters, who are less concerned about any price tag. 

Tottenham target Dominic Solanke admits he used to attend Arsenal matches as fan

Solank🐲e was speaking to in May of th⛦is year, before facing Arsenal in the Premier League.

And although the stri𒉰ker admitted that the club meant li🅘ttle to him today, Solanke did say he often went to the Emirates Cup with his father.

Hꦺe was asked: “First football shirt you ever got?”

Solanke replied: “Would have probably been A꧟rsenal. Yeah my Dad was an Ar🌳senal fan so I used to follow them.

“I went to a few Emirates Cups back in the day.”

Intﷺerviewer: “Do you think about that when you play Arsenal?”

Solanke: “Not anymore. Back in the day when you’re young you love watching football and stuff but 🦹when you actually grow up an𒅌d start playing against those teams I think it’s a bit hard to support a team, you know?”

Of course, when reading those comments, Tottenham fans will focus on the fact that Solanke isn’t an Arsenal fan today.

And should the striker make the move to north London this summer, he would und♛oubtedly be fully committed to Spurs, perhaps hoping to kickstart his England career under Postecog🎐lou.


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