The Tottenham and England striker is back up front for the club after a frustrating season with a troublesome ankle problem
Dominic Solanke has declared to football.london that "all of my injuries have gone away" after bringing an end to a difficult five months at Tottenham.
The 28-year-old has missed much of Spurs' season with ankle injury and faced a setback when he first returned earlier this season from the problem which has dogged him for months. The England international had injections to try to stop the pain he was feeling in training and a minor procedure to fix the problem which flared up again just when he hoped it was fixed.
Now finally Solanke is pain free and has started back-to-back matches for Tottenham under Thomas Frank, the first games he has started since May and the final match of last season against Brighton.
There is still a way to go for the forward as his game is based on a strong work ethic up front with his running and pressing of opponents and football.london asked him how close he was to being that player again.
"Hopefully soon. I feel good, I feel fit. All of my injuries have gone away. I was out for quite a long time. So I'm obviously not going to get straight up to fitness and start straight away," he said. "I've been training with the team for a bit now and have a few games under my belt. So I'm feeling good.
"It’s always difficult being injured. It’s hard to watch the team knowing you can’t really help or do anything to change that but I’m fit now and feel good and want to do everything I can to help the team.
"We’re only just past the halfway mark and we’ve still got a lot of games to play and still believe we can go on to have a good season. I’m hoping to play a big role in that and we’re all looking for positives."
Tottenham are in Germany to face Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday night and after a tough time in the Premier League with only two wins from 14 matches, the north London club can take their place in the last 16 of the Champions League if they can beat their managerless hosts who have conceded three goals in each of their past five matches.
"We’re seeing this game as a positive. Obviously last year we came here and got a great result. We’re looking to do that again. It’s a great opportunity for us to finish in the top eight. We’re looking forward to the game more than anything," said Solanke.
The striker netted the winning goal in the away leg in Frankfurt back in April to send Tottenham into the Europa League semi-finals.
"Last year we weren’t as good as we wanted to be in the league and we had the European competition to look forward to and that was a huge game in our season," he said.
"We obviously want to win cups at this club and that was a huge part of winning that. We’ve got fond memories of it. It was a close game and we managed to win the game and went on to win the whole trophy so we’ve nothing but good things to say about that game."