The Don’t Go to Bed Just Yet panel were full of praise for Manor Solomon who marked his Leeds debut with the assist for the opening goal in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Hull.
Solomon, 25, joined Leeds on a season-long loan from Tottenham last week but had not played competitively since September 2023 because of a knee injury.
“The second half they really got things under control and the second goal killed things off,” Said BBC Radio Leeds’ Adam Pope.
“It became the ideal scenario to display a few new signings and the perfect performance and result to just calm everybody down.
“But, I still stand by that the window was a little bit underwhelming because we just don’t know the quality of the players and what they are going to do.
“However, on first sight, hopefully the recruitment team have gone out and got players who adapt very quickly to this level.
“To get that synergy so quickly with Solomon is brilliant. He was the standout for me. Neal Redfearn gave him man of the match, he was so good. He felt like exactly the player we saw help Fulham take Leeds apart. From minute one he was superb.
“I thought he was going to burn out after an hour but he dropped the shoulder twice and got the perfect cross in and I thought ‘this is a guy who is different level’. I thought he was brilliant on the day, fantastic.”
“I felt like Solomon was interesting,” Kaiser Chiefs bassist Simon Rix added.
“[Daniel] Farke must have had so much confidence in him to stick him in from the start just like that. He’s not played any football recently and before that was injured for a long time.
“He’s skilful and quick and made a great assist. With the assist as well, it came just when you thought he was drifting out of things and you’re thinking ‘maybe his fitness is not quite there and he needs to come off’.
“It was one of those times where Solomon just decided ‘I’m bored of messing about with this guy, I’m just going to do an excellent cross and we can score’. It felt like he could just do that at anytime and he’d just been messing about up until then.”
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