Adli usually plays as a left winger, but can also play as an attacking midfielder.
He joined Bayer Leverkusen in 2021, a bit before Xabi Alonso arrived as manager… but never managed to establish himself as a clear starter.
He was always on the fringes – coming in as a super-sub [with] players like Florian Wirtz and Nathan Tella ahead of him.
Before the championship-winning season in 2023-24 Adli played many more games because Wirtz was injured.
Adli has played mostly on the left wing or inside as a left-sided number 10, or as an attacking midfielder a little more centrally.
Usually he features on the left one way or another – and in Andoni Iraola’s 4-1-4-1 system right now he would probably be the man on the left wing.
When we look at Bournemouth’s starting XI for their first Premier League match against Liverpool, David Brooks played off the left wing but from what I know, he is more of a right winger. Then there is Luis Sinisterra, who is injured, so I think there is an opening for a left winger.
I think it’s a fair deal in terms of price. At 25 he is still a young player, not quite at his peak in terms of athleticism.
He still has a few years until he peaks but he played 140 games for Leverkusen and was part of the Bundesliga-winning squad so is not just a nobody from the bench.