Manor Solomon interview – My fiancee pushed me to join Leeds. Later, I told her: ‘Thank you’

Manor Solomon interview – My fiancee pushed me to join Leeds. Later, I told her: ‘Thank you’

I can say something here I’ve never said before in interviews.”

 

Thank you, Manor Solomon, and thank you, Dana Voshina. Leeds United’s loan star serves up every interviewer’s dream sentence at the midway point of our sit-down.

 

Dana, Solomon’s fiancee, might also be getting thanks from the wider Leeds fanbase by the end of May. At this current trajectory, the Tottenham Hotspur loanee might be toying with the Championship by the time the run-in revs up.

Four months have passed since Solomon joined Leeds on loan. His rebuild, from virtually a year lost to injury, through the fire of the Championship and intense competition for places, has taken time, but things are coming together.

 

Four starts in the past five matches over the busy festive period, with Wilfried Gnonto and Largie Ramazani breathing down his neck, underlines Daniel Farke’s growing faith in the 25-year-old. Four goal contributions in as many starts have not hurt either.

 

But he would not be at Elland Road, having this impact, if it were not for his partner.

 

“She’s been amazing,” he tells The Athletic. “We’re getting married in the summer. We’ve been together for six and a half years, so it’s quite a long journey. She’s been with me in Ukraine, in Fulham, in Tottenham, and especially here.

 

“I can say something here I’ve never said before in interviews: she pushed me to come to Leeds. In the beginning, when I heard Leeds, I knew it was a big club but I said, ‘It’s second division, I don’t know. After a long injury, to go to the Championship, it can be risky; it can be hard because everyone knows the Championship is a really tough league’.

She pushed me, because our goal is to stay in England, to get back to the Premier League.

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