Bournemouth have agreed a deal for Liverpool winger Ben Doak for an preliminary £20m with an extra £5m in add-ons.
The 19-year-old is predicted to finish his switch to the south coast within the subsequent 24 hours in a transfer that continues to be topic to paperwork and passing a medical.
Doak was neglected of Liverpool’s 4-2 win over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday evening, amid ongoing talks between the 2 Premier League golf equipment.
However Bournemouth have since secured a deal for the ahead, who has six caps for Scotland, and spent final season on mortgage at Middlesbrough, scoring 3 times and recording seven assists in 24 matches.
They’re understood to have crushed curiosity from different Premier League golf equipment, together with Leeds, in addition to Portuguese membership Porto.
Doak’s transfer will give him a greater probability of taking part in first workforce soccer having performed simply 10 occasions for Liverpool since becoming a member of from Celtic in 2022.
Bournemouth have had a busy summer time having bought Dango Ouattara to Brentford for £42.5m final week.
They already misplaced defenders Illia Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen and Milos Kerkez for a mixed complete of about £150m to Paris St-Germain, Actual Madrid and Liverpool respectively.
Bournemouth supervisor Andoni Iraola stated his aspect are “not the place they wish to be” earlier than defeat at Anfield and added “necessary actions” shall be made earlier than the switch window closes on 1 September.
Goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic, left-back Adrien Truffert and centre-back Bafode Diakite have joined the membership this summer time, with January signing Eli Junior Kroupi additionally coming into the squad after ending final season on mortgage at Lorient.
Sources say the Cherries are out there for an extra central defender and a striker to compete with Evanilson, with various possibility Enes Unal anticipated to be out with a significant knee harm till November or December.
