Pundit thinks Tottenham overpaid for one player this season, but it might still work out

Tottenham have added four senior players to their squad this summer with the headline addition being Dominic Solanke for a club-record deal of £65 million, a price that former Lilywhite, Paul Robinson believes may be too high.

Tottenham sign Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth

Ange Postecoglou has overseen a major squad shift in the summer prior to his second season as Spurs manager, with seven senior players making permanent exits from the club to make way for four shiny new additions in Archie Gray, Dominic Solanke, Wilson Odobert and Timo Werner.

The landmark signing for Ange Postecoglou was former Bournemouth striker, Dominic Solanke. Richarlison did an apt job of leading the Spurs line when fit last season, recording eleven Premier League goals, but those periods of fitness were few and far between.

Postecoglou himself made his tactical intentions for a striker clear too, stating to Football.London in pre-season: “I think for us what’s more important is the type of striker we get. 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”.

Robinson believes Tottenham overpaid for Solanke

Despite Solanke seemingly appeasing Postecoglou’s striker demands, ex-Tottenham goalkeeper, Paul Robinson, believes the reported £65 million that his former side have paid is too high.

He said (BBC Sport): “Solanke is the number nine they have been missing, but at £65m they have overpaid for someone who has had one good season in the Premier League.

“He got 19 goals last season, but his best total in the top flight before then was six. Still, he has got a good engine and can press from the front and I think he will fit into the way that Ange wants to play.”

Robinson, despite his concerns over Solanke’s price, did predict Tottenham to finish fourth this season. Making the ex-goalkeeper one of only 11 BBC Sport pundits, out of 29, to back Spurs to make the top four this season.

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I believe it’s quite surprising that just over a third of the BBC’s pundits reckon that Tottenham will make the top four this season following Postecoglou’s summer of clearing out a lot of the unwanted members of his squad to make way for new signings or young talent.

As for Solanke’s price, there is a wider issue with the lack of top strikers within football at the moment, which means that Spurs may well have paid what is the going rate for a striker who has proven he can score almost twenty goals in one or, if not, the hardest league in the world.

Strikers are always a gamble, but now more than ever will come at a premium. We’ve seen an unprecedented switch in the Premier League of teams effectively not fielding a striker.

Arsenal did it with Havertz last season, West Ham did it at times and Manchester City even had to win the league without a striker prior to Haaland’s arrival.

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