Bournemouth have signed Liverpool winger Ben Doak for an preliminary £20m with an extra £5m in add-ons.
The 19-year-old has signed a five-year contract and turns into Bournemouth’s fourth summer season acquisition.
Doak was neglected of Liverpool’s 4-2 win over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday night time.
“I am buzzing to be right here,” Doak mentioned.
“I really feel prefer it’s the appropriate time for me and it is an excellent alternative to play common soccer on the highest stage. It appears like the proper match.
“The staff play very good soccer. It is quick and it actually fits my recreation, so I felt like I could not say no to the prospect to play right here.”
Doak has gained six caps for Scotland and spent final season on mortgage at Middlesbrough within the Championship, scoring 3 times and recording seven assists in 24 matches.
Bournemouth are understood to have crushed curiosity from different Premier League golf equipment, together with Leeds, in addition to Portuguese facet Porto.
Doak’s transfer will give him a greater likelihood of taking part in first-team soccer having featured simply 10 instances for Liverpool since becoming a member of from Celtic in 2022.
It takes Liverpool’s gross sales to about £200m this summer season, having spent greater than £270m on new signings and a £110m bid for Alexander Isak rejected by Newcastle.
Liverpool’s main gross sales have included Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich in a £65.5m deal, Darwin Nunez to Al-Hilal for £46.3m and academy participant Jarrell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen for £35m.
Caoimhin Kelleher, Tyler Morton and Nat Phillips have additionally been offered, whereas the membership acquired £8.4m from Actual Madrid to launch Trent Alexander-Arnold early from his contract, although the Spanish membership dispute this determine.
The sale of Doak means Liverpool have introduced in about £85m in preliminary charges for the winger, Phillips, Alexander-Arnold, Kelleher, Quansah and Morton. The six gamers arrived as both youth gamers or growth initiatives and price the Reds an preliminary £600,000. The next revenue for gamers classed as ‘homegrown’ offers the Reds a direct enhance when it comes to present revenue and sustainability rule (PSR) calculations.
Bournemouth have additionally had a busy summer season having offered 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 mentioned his facet are “not the place they need to be” earlier than the 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 season, 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 different choice Enes Unal anticipated to be out with a serious knee damage till November or December.
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