{"id":22585,"date":"2026-05-13T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22585\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:34:25","slug":"bournemouth-chief-sends-117m-transfer-message-as-liverpool-and-barcelona-referenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/22585\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth chief sends $117M transfer message as Liverpool and Barcelona referenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth managing director Tiago Pinto has mentioned Liverpool and Barcelona as potential suitors for Eli Junior Kroupi, who has been a revelation on the south coast this season\"Bournemouth<\/p>\n

Bournemouth forward Eli Junior Kroupi.(Image: David Horton – CameraSport via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Bournemouth managing director Tiago Pinto has emphatically ruled out the sale of Eli Junior Kroupi this summer, even if a massive offer comes in for the teenager.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the media in Spain, he suggested that even a bid as big as \u20ac100 million ($117 million\/\u00a385 million) from a club like Liverpool<\/a> or Barcelona<\/a> would not be enough to convince the Cherries to cash in when the season ends.<\/p>\n

Junior Kroupi, 19, has scored 12 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions this year. He moved to Bournemouth<\/a> from FC Lorient for a fee of around $17 million (\u00a312 million) last summer.<\/p>\n

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“Junior Kroupi will not leave Bournemouth,” Pinto is quoted as saying by Mundo Deportivo<\/a>. “His contract still has more than four years remaining, there is no release clause, and he is not going anywhere.<\/p>\n

“We will not sell Kroupi even if Barcelona or Liverpool offer \u20ac100 million. That is completely out of the question.”<\/p>\n

With doubts over Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres heading into the summer, Barcelona has been touted as a possible destination for Junior Kroupi.<\/p>\n

\"Eli<\/p>\n

Eli Junior Kroupi has enjoyed an impressive season with Bournemouth(Image: Robin Jones – AFC Bournemouth\/AFC Bournemouth via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

There have been links with Premier League clubs including Arsenal and Chelsea, too, though having spent big on Alexander Isak<\/a> and Hugo Ekitike<\/a> a year ago, a big-money switch to Liverpool seems unlikely.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, the French forward became the first teenager to register 12 goals in his debut Premier League<\/a> season since Robbie Fowler did so for Liverpool back in 1993\/94.<\/p>\n

Junior Kroupi has averaged a goal every 121 minutes \u2014 only Manchester City and Norway superstar Erling Haaland<\/a> has a better ratio in England’s top flight.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, of the 43 shots that he has taken in the Premier League this season, 20 have been on target.<\/p>\n

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That is all the more impressive when you consider that he plays more as a number 10 than a striker. Junior Kroupi is normally behind Evanilson, who is the first line of Andoni Iraola’s attack.<\/p>\n

Liverpool.com says: Kroupi is a brilliant player and a really good example of why Bournemouth is where it is in the standings. Its recruitment is very clever, though he came from another team in the same multi-club model.<\/p>\n

Alongside Kroupi, Alex Scott and Rayan are likely to be targeted by bigger clubs in the near future. If the Cherries can get into the Champions League<\/a>, though, that will be a big reason to stick around for another 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth managing director Tiago Pinto has mentioned Liverpool and Barcelona as potential suitors for Eli Junior Kroupi, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8157,92,2991,100,265],"class_list":["post-22585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-afc-bournemouth","tag-barcelona","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-premier-league","tag-transfers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}