Want some super sloppy transfer rumor glop? You know you want it and I am here for you, fam. There’s a new, super specious report that Tottenham Hotspur winger Manor Solomon is likely to be loaned out for the season, with unnamed clubs from “England, Germany, and Spain” interested in his services this season.
The source? Well, it’s not great! But it potentially gets Manor out the door and therefore I choose to believe it.
Shay Lugassi is the head of BarcaTimes, which seems to have been at one point a blog but the website is currently throwing a 403 error so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But they have a substantial twitter presence so I’m going to basically assume he’s my Barcelona blog equivalent. So maybe think of this rumor as if I were breaking news (which I rarely do) and consider the veracity of this rumor thusly. (Or maybe don’t, because the transitive property might make me look bad?)
Anyway, it’s a rumor and there’s nobody who’d rather see Manor Solomon out the door than me, so let’s go with it! Interestingly, the unnamed Spanish clubs interested in Solomon do NOT include Barcelona and there’s no further detail. I told you it’s sloppy! But it’s the end of the transfer window, so what else is there to do but dive head-first into the trough and get messy?
Manor didn’t feature at all vs. the K-League All-Stars or Bayern Munich in Korea, which made us at Carty Free Towers wonder if he’s going to be in Ange Postecoglou’s plans. We might get a better sense of that in the upcoming second friendly against Bayern this Saturday, but if he’s already being linked to loans that suggests to me that he isn’t going to be much of a factor in the Premier League coming up.
And that’s okay by me. I was a Solomon skeptic from the very beginning and thought the way the club acquired him from a Shakhtar Donetsk club dealing with the war in Ukraine was pretty skeezy. The long-term injury he had last season didn’t give us much of a chance to evaluate him, but his cameos in preseason didn’t do much to convince me he’s worth keeping around, so I’m all for a loan here.
Slop, slop, slop, but let’s see if this goes anywhere.