{"id":346564,"date":"2025-08-15T12:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346564\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:51:14","slug":"bournemouth-close-to-signing-ben-doak-from-liverpool-in-25m-deal-transfer-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346564\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth close to signing Ben Doak from Liverpool in \u00a325m deal | Transfer window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bournemouth<\/strong> are closing in on a deal to sign the Liverpool forward Ben Doak for \u00a325m. The 19-year-old is poised to deliver a huge profit for Liverpool on the \u00a3600,000 they paid Celtic in training compensation in 2022.<\/p>\n

The Scotland international has been linked with plenty of Premier League clubs and Porto and the proposed switch comes with Bournemouth\u2019s Dango Ouattara poised to join Brentford for up to \u00a342.5m.<\/p>\n

Doak\u2019s Liverpool<\/a> future originally looked bright under J\u00fcrgen Klopp but a combination of the German\u2019s departure, injury and the form of Mohamed Salah meant it felt increasingly inevitable he would need to kickstart his career elsewhere. Doak spent last season on loan in the Championship at Middlesbrough but did not feature after late January having sustained a thigh injury that required surgery. Arne Slot has supplemented his Liverpool squad with heavy spending this summer.<\/p>\n

Doak was an unused substitute for last weekend\u2019s Community Shield at Wembley. Coincidentally, Liverpool and Bournemouth meet to open the Premier League season on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

After Bournemouth completed the signing of the French centre-back Bafode Diakit\u00e9 from Lille for \u00a334.5m this week, Andoni Iraola has turned attention to attacking positions. Doak\u2019s arrival comes with Luis Sinisterra expected to move on loan to Cruzeiro.<\/p>\n

Bayern Munich<\/strong> have opened talks with Chelsea<\/strong> over a deal for Christopher Nkunku. The France forward has fallen out of favour and is one of several attackers expected to leave Stamford Bridge before the transfer window shuts.<\/p>\n

Chelsea need to move players out before pressing ahead with moves for Manchester United\u2019s Alejandro Garnacho and RB Leipzig\u2019s Xavi Simons<\/a>. They hope to negotiate a lower fee for Garnacho, who is valued at \u00a350m by United. The Argentina winger wants to move to Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n

Christopher Nkunku has fallen out of favour at Chelsea after struggling for form and fitness. Photograph: Justin Setterfield\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Maresca has rejigged his attack this summer, signing Liam Delap, Jo\u00e3o Pedro, Est\u00eav\u00e3o Willian and Jamie Gittens. Noni Madueke has left for Arsenal. Nkunku has struggled for form and fitness since joining from Leipzig for \u00a352m two years ago and Bayern are pushing for a loan deal with an option to buy. It remains to be seen whether Chelsea will press for a permanent deal, even if that means taking a loss.<\/p>\n

Bayern are looking to strengthen their attack after releasing Thomas M\u00fcller, selling Kingsley Coman and being hit by Jamal Musiala sustaining a long-term injury<\/a> during the Club World Cup. They looked at Nkunku in January but were put off by his \u00a360m valuation. The Bundesliga champions have revived their interest after having a bid rejected for Stuttgart\u2019s Nick Woltemade.<\/p>\n

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Chelsea are also open to offers for Nicolas Jackson, who has interest from Newcastle, and Tyrique George. They are waiting for buyers to emerge for Raheem Sterling and Carney Chukwuemeka.<\/p>\n

Maresca wants a centre-back after losing Levi Colwill to a knee injury. The recruitment team are yet to activate any emergency plans and will move for defensive reinforcements only if a suitable player becomes available. Maresca, though, has made it clear he feels his squad does not contain a suitable replacement for Colwill.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know how important Levi has been for us last season, for the way we want to play,\u201d the head coach said before Sunday\u2019s opening game at home to Crystal Palace. \u201cWe said many times that we are able to create chances and to attack in the right way if we are able to build in the right way. Levi was a huge part of our buildup and now he\u2019s out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to find a solution internally but the club know exactly what I think and we\u2019ll see what happens. I think we need a central defender. We are looking for an internal solution but as I said, the club know exactly what I think.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bournemouth are closing in on a deal to sign the Liverpool forward Ben Doak for \u00a325m. The 19-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032875591690039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}