Bournemouth Close To Signing Ben Doak From Liverpool In £25m Deal

Bournemouth are closing successful connected a woody to motion nan Liverpool guardant Ben Doak for £25m. The 19-year-old is poised to present a immense profit for Liverpool connected nan £600,000 they paid Celtic successful training compensation successful 2022.

The Scotland world has been linked pinch umpteen Premier League clubs and Porto and nan projected move comes pinch Bournemouth’s Dango Ouattara poised to subordinate Brentford for up to £42.5m.

Doak’s Liverpool early primitively looked agleam nether Jürgen Klopp but a operation of nan German’s departure, wounded and nan shape of Mohamed Salah meant it felt progressively inevitable he would request to kickstart his profession elsewhere. Doak spent past play connected indebtedness successful nan Championship astatine Middlesbrough but did not characteristic aft precocious January having sustained a thigh wounded which required surgery. Arne Slot has supplemented his Liverpool squad pinch dense spending this summer.

Doak was an unused substitute for past weekend’s Community Shield astatine Wembley. Coincidentally, Liverpool and Bournemouth meet to unfastened nan Premier League play connected Friday evening.

After Bournemouth completed nan signing of nan French centre backmost Bafode Diakité from Lille for £34.5m this week, Andoni Iraola has turned attraction to attacking positions. Doak’s presence comes pinch Luis Sinisterra expected to move connected indebtedness to Cruzeiro.

Bayern Munich person opened talks pinch Chelsea complete a woody for Christopher Nkunku. The France guardant has fallen retired of favour and is 1 of respective attackers expected to time off Stamford Bridge earlier nan transportation model shuts.

Chelsea request to move players retired earlier pressing up pinch moves for Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho and RB Leipzig’s Xavi Simons. They dream to discuss a little interest for Garnacho, who is weighted astatine £50m by United. The Argentina winger wants to move to Stamford Bridge.