Tottenham Hotspur have a number of brilliant players in their squad.
Spurs, collectively, have had a shocking season. They are 16th in the Premier League table and are out of the two domestic cups as well.
The Europa League can still save their campaign, but questions need to be asked about why they have been so poor in the league this term with all the quality players they have.
Rio Ferdinand has watched a lot of Tottenham this season, but he never realised one thing about one of their players until he met him.
Rio Ferdinand shocked by Tottenham star Dominic Solanke’s size
Tottenham signed Dominic Solanke in a £65 million deal from Bournemouth last summer.
The Englishman had an amazing season with the Cherries, and he was linked with multiple clubs during last year’s transfer window.
Tottenham wrapped up the deal to sign Solanke fairly quickly, and the striker has shown flashes of his brilliance since.
The 27-year-old has all the attributes to become a top number nine. He can hold the ball up really well, can link up with the players around him and is clinical more often than not too.
Ferdinand was aware of all of the above before, but what shocked the Manchester United legend when he met him recently was his size.
After greeting Solanke and Chelsea star Tosin Adarabioyo, Ferdinand claimed that he never thought the two players were so big.
He told them in a video on his YouTube channel: “You man are big, you know? I didn’t realise you lot are that big!
“Wow!”
How tall is Dominic Solanke and is he Tottenham’s tallest player?
Solanke definitely looks like a big striker.
The Englishman can go toe-to-toe with any centre-half in the country and is capable of coming out on top in physical battles.
Solanke is 1.86m tall, which is 6 feet 2 inches. That, however, only makes him Spurs’ 13th-tallest player.
Fraser Forster is the tallest, standing at 2.01m, while Guglielmo Vicario, Micky van de Ven, Radu Dragusin, Kevin Danso, Antonin Kinsky, Alfie Whiteman, Brandon Austin, Destiny Udogie, Rodrigo Bentancur, Lucas Bergvall and even Archie Gray are all taller than Solanke, as per Transfermarkt.
For those wondering, Ferdinand is 6 feet 2 inches tall too.