Catching up with transfer outs from 2019 Janurary window

Dominic Solanke

To: Bournemouth FC
Fee: £19 million

It cost them a small tribunal-set fee of £3 million in order to bring in the young striker from Chelsea. Finding playing time hard to come by with the London outfit, Solanke took the chance to push up the ranks at Liverpool.

But after his first season with five starts and 21 sub appearances, Solanke found his chances for getting a starting role were about as slim as they were back in London. So in January of 2019, Liverpool found a club willing to take him on in Bournemouth. For £19 million.

That’s a £16 million profit on a player they just didn’t have room for.

Since leaving Solanke has started 12 games and come on as a sub 16 times for Bournemouth. Unfortunately, for him, he has scored just one goal for his new club. For a forward, that’s not a good stat line (I’m sure you already knew that.)

He’s averaging 1.2 shots per game and 0.6 key passes. He has a 2.0 expected goals for and 0.7 expected assists for. Clearly he just isn’t doing enough with the opportunities he’s being given with his new club

It’s clear that Liverpool was wise to move Solanke on when they did, while his value was still high. According to Trasnfermarkt.com, Solanke’s value has gone down since the move.

Excluding any loan fees, Liverpool took in a cool £16 million profit (they didn’t bring anyone in) from the 2019 January transfer window. More importantly, they moved two players who were factors in the squad and continue to be non-factors for their new squads.