Think Ramazani is right footed Tad. He’s another one of these fashionable ‘inverted’ wingers. That means we have James, Gnonto, Ramazani and Solomon all right footers playing out wide, with three of them playing mostly on their “wrong” side. Like I said, I think it’s poor recruitment and kills momentum and the shape of the team with players constantly checking back to try and work the ball onto their stronger foot when they should be getting outside of defences and crossing the ball. Yes we want quality players like Ramazani, and we want strength in depth, but to not have a genuine left footed wide player is negligent and pretty strange at this level. I don’t know if it’s Farke’s preference to play with inverted wingers, or the players telling Farke where they prefer to play, but I think it kills us at times. The likes of Saka at Arsenal prefer to play that way, and he had a pet lip on when he was asked to fill in wide left for England in the World Cup. He then went on to play as an inverted right winger in the final and got marked out of the game by a player that couldn’t even get a game with his Premiership team. There’s a lesson right there.

Summerville was a better version of an inverted winger but the wheels came off for him when teams sussed him out and he failed badly in the final part of the season. Summerville was part of an impotent forward line that couldn’t trouble teams in the important run in and 4 points from the last 18 killed us last season. He ran down so many blind alleys that last 7 or 8 games he didn’t look the same player that won Championship Player of The Year.

a lot of the issue was we never went down the right so we were predictable

Yeah easy to view Summerville and Rutter with rose tinted glasses but both fell to bits when it really counted at the back end of the season..

From what i've seen of Solomon so far is that he struggles to move the ball quickly too, he tends to slow it down too much. Some of that is just the way he's been coached before and he should get better. BUT, he needs to improve fast otherwise i'd send him back in Jan and get an upgrade in there

I think a lot of that was down to how teams defended against Summerville in particular.
Rutter on the other hand tried to do too much and frequently took the wrong option.
When it worked it looked good but that was rare.
I agree on Solomon who has the ability but doesn`t have the pace.
I would be giving him an ultimatum that he needs to shift up a gear or he goes back to Spurs and as long as we have a better replacement.