Tottenham transfer: Postecoglou confirms Spurs 'did look' at alternative striker but he 'wanted' Solanke

Ange Postecoglou authenticates Tottenham “did thorough visual impresses” at Ivan Toney as a potential signing before they ordered Dominic Solanke from AFC Bournemouth.

Energizes invested £65million to lug in Solanke from Premier League rivals Bournemouth last month, yet his prelude to spiritedness at the nightclub possesses been hampered by an ankle injury picked upward on his debut at Leicester City elbowroom.

Toney was an additional high-profile English forward on the sector, yet he at some point accepted upward wearing Saudi Pro League side Al-Ahli in a stagger move. This methodologies Energizes will clearly not confront him on Saturday when Brentford administer the pilgrimage to play their London rivals.

Postecoglou briefly touched upon Toney’s summertime access before unleashing a staunch protection of Solanke, who elicited nice minutes versus Leicester as well as Arsenal yet is without a ambition after 3 appearances.

“We did thorough visual impresses at him (Toney) yet I have asserted, Dom was the one I longed as well as it took instead much the entirety summertime to recover him in since he was the one who fitted the profile of what we were sifting for at the time,” Postecoglou discussed.

“Individual are purely so quickly to courtroom, accomplice. It’s a little sample. The guy possesses tinkered much less than two arcades for us.

“If he possesses gone 15 arcades without a ambition after that I can rebuttal that stress or 15 arcades wherein he hasn’t added, yet I purely assume thieve a breath. Implement a little information of yoga. Hearken the earth for a second as well as administer an examination after that.

“We wear’t have to journey to administer distrusting unanimously the time since the unanimously natural is he can have obtained off to a nice prelude, he is accommodate, racked upward in unanimously four arcades, is flying as well as after that he goes wearing a place prefer unanimously demonstrators wherein he doesn’t score.

“What I thorough visual impresses at is he possesses come in, fitted sincerely well as well as instead realistically possesses picked upward an injury that possesses interrupted the way he longed to prelude his profession, yet he’s still obtained plenty of time for that.

“I place’t sensed (tension). I wear’t sense that. In his subconscious, I assume he purely wants to be in a nice physical holding up against so he can contribute. That is wherein he is at as well as the elbowroom we want him in.

“Ideally he acquires a little information of self-tenacity out of the gallery time he obtained throughout the week as well as builds on that tomorrow. I’m sure as the season goes on he will clearly be a real made complex aspect for us.”

Solanke will clearly prelude once again versus Brentford after Postecoglou ceded a coupled upgrade on injuries.

Wilson Odobert (hamstring) is surely out, yet Yves Bissouma (groin) as well as Timo Werner are supplied.

Richarlison remains “a exchange way off” wearing a calf aggravation.

Postecoglou encompassed: “Wilson doesn’t thorough visual impresses nice, we are still waiting for it to complete down as well as recover unanimously the information yet he will clearly surely be out for the next period.

“Bissouma educated today so he must be supplied for tomorrow. Timo is alright.

“(Richarlison) possesses still not educated wearing the first crew so he is still a little information off.”