{"id":263815,"date":"2026-01-02T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:22:08","slug":"fraser-forster-former-spurs-keeper-couldnt-say-no-to-joining-bournemouth-on-six-month-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263815\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraser Forster: Former Spurs keeper ‘couldn’t say no’ to joining Bournemouth on six-month deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth have signed former Tottenham and Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster on a six-month deal. <\/b><\/p>\n

The 37-year-old arrives at Vitality Stadium as back-up to first-choice stopper Djordje Petrovic after an injury to Will Dennis. <\/p>\n

Forster, who won the last of his six caps for England in 2016, has been a free agent since leaving Spurs last summer when his contract expired. <\/p>\n

“The opportunity arose and, for me, it was one that I couldn’t say no to,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I am absolutely delighted. It’s happened pretty quickly but I am delighted to be here and be a part of it.<\/p>\n

“I am looking forward to helping the team and the squad, and contributing however I can for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

“You can really see the trajectory and the ambition of the club, and I think that was a very attractive thing for me.”<\/p>\n

Bournemouth, who are on a winless run stretching 10 top-flight matches back to 26 October, host Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday, with Forster expected to be among the substitutes.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Friday, the Cherries confirmed Mexico right-back Julian Araujo, 24, had completed a loan move to Celtic.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth have signed former Tottenham and Celtic goalkeeper Fraser Forster on a six-month deal. The 37-year-old arrives at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-263815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}