Tottenham are finalising a deal for striker Dominic Solanke as Bournemouth agree to his club-record departure.
Solanke scored 19 Premier League goals last term to help Bournemouth to secure a 12th-placed finish in the top flight and has been heavily linked with a move away from the Cherries this summer with a number of top clubs interested.
, who has agreed personal terms and is desperate to secure a move to the north London club.
Solanke is under contract with Bournemouth until 2029 but has a £65m release clause in his contract which can be triggered by certain clubs.
It s not clear whether Tottenham have triggered that release clause, though the report does confirm that his departure would represent a club-record sale for Bournemouth, surpassing the £45m Manchester City paid for Nathan Ale in the summer of 2020.
Spurs have been without a senior striker since Harry Kane left for Bayern Munich a year ago and manager Ange Postecoglou said their focus was on a No.9 who would suit his style of play.
“What’s important is the type of striker we get,” Postecoglou said during Tottenham’s pre-season tour of Japan. “You know we play a certain way. We demand certain things from a physical perspective from the technical aspects of it that it’s going be a striker that fits that mould.
“It’s still the area of the park we’re really probably the thinnest when I talk about squad-wise at the moment, so obviously that’s a focus for us.”
Solanke began his career at Chelsea before moving to Liverpool in 2017 on a free transfer.
Limited game time at Anfield saw him move to Bournemouth in January 2019 for £19m – a fee deemed to be quite high at the time.
But the Cherries now look set to recoup that fee and more, though Liverpool reportedly inserted a clause in that deal that would see the Reds land 20 per cent of a future sale, so they could receive as much as £9m if Spurs pay the full release clause.
Solanke would be Tottenham s third signing of the summer so far after 18-year-old midfielders Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall joined from Leeds and Djugarden respectively, while Postecoglou s side have also agreed a deal for South Korean winger Yang Min-hyuk, who will arrive in January.
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While on pre-season tour, Postecoglou explained how he decides in a first meeting with a potential signing whether a player is right for the club.
Some of it is just maturity it’s how the conversation goes. Really, I’m a big one on players who are really excited to join the club. You might think that that should be a given, but it’s not always the case, said the 58-year-old.
Sometimes, rightly so, players go, ‘Oh, I’ve got other options,’ and they do, the kind of players we’re looking at, they’ve got other options. It might be better financial conditions or a different competition, or a bigger club in their mind, whatever it is.
