sadly you seem to be the one that is wrong on this one, what was the true reason for the transfer to breakdown?, clearly not a fitness issue as some suggest, otherwise why would Bournemouth pay £19 mill for his services? this is another cock-up by SP et-al, clearly Liverpool wanted to sell and he did not want to buy, Roy said it all at Wolves on Tuesday when he suggested it was their (the Clubs decision), suggesting he was not 100% behind it. Bournemouth and Eddie Howe, seem to upstage us a lot these days and so much for those who think having a bigger ground will make us more competitive, what we really need is a good chairman who invests in the team and leaves the manager to manager the playing side, just see how quickly Bournemouth have quickly closed this deal and others since the window opened!

It’s been pointed out by a previous poster. Bournemouth have excess strikers which mean they can wait the 5/6 weeks it will take for Solanke to be match fit. We might as well give Wickham the opportunity to do this rather than spend 19mil on a striker that’s played no premier league football.

Who knows if Solanke will be a success, he has no pedigree to speak of other than age group football. He may well be a fantastic but he isn’t what we need right now.

I think it is more to do with skill factors in identifying targets, if he did have a minor injury, then that was obvious before we started talking to Liverpool, so then why waste time, we signed Sakho when he was injured and Tomkins come to that, even though we were in urgent need of defenders at the time. Apart from Spurs we have invested nothing over the last two transfer windows have made the lowest investment in our team in the whole of PL and frankly most of those that have come in on the cheap has been a waste of space, we seem incapable of handling transfer or getting them over the line why?, SP seem to be the problem every-time!

Reports said his injury was sorted - doesn’t mean he was ready to play which is what we need (having two strikers not match fit already). I, for one, am glad we walked away and admit I’d have been highly critical of SP if we’d got Solanke & couldn’t use him properly for a month or so - we all know how cautious Roy is introducing players.

Incessant SP bashing seems both without foundation and pointless in this instance.

As an aside, I hope the FA impose proper FFP sanctions against Bournemouth this time too - transfer embargo or points deduction - instead of a tiny fine.

Will this be five? It's gonna be five! It IS five!

Seem to remember this has occurred with another player in the past with a medical raising concerns and us pulling away. Was it Bendtner ? Nothing wrong with this. Interesting to know whether the medical details were divulged by the Solanke team to the Cherries.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Good points.Have to believe that he is injured at the moment so may well not see him for a while, which is not ideal for us as others mentioned. Our concerns are more needy than Bournemouth. He could easily turn out to be Jordon Ibe Mk 2 for them.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld