Doak to join Bournemouth for £25m as Liverpool sales near £200m

Liverpool winger Ben Doak will receive an initial sum of £20 million and additional sums of £5 million in additions from Bournemouth.

The 19-year-old is expected to finish moving to the south coast in the next 24 hours, though this move will still require paperwork and a medical clearance.

Due to ongoing discussions between the two Premier League clubs, Doak was excluded from Liverpool’s 4-2 victory over Bournemouth at Anfield on Friday night.

The forward has six caps for Scotland and played for Middlesbrough on loan last season, scoring three goals and adding seven assists in 24 games. Bournemouth have since signed him, though.

They are said to have beaten interest from Portuguese club Porto and other Premier League clubs, including Leeds.

Since he has only played for Liverpool ten times since joining from Celtic in 2022, Doak’s move will increase his chances of playing first team football.

After spending more than a billion dollars on new signings and having had Newcastle reject a £110 million bid for Alexander Isak, it will increase Liverpool’s sales to around £200 million this summer.

Major acquisitions in the Premier League include Jarrell Quansah, academy player, and £65 million signings of Luis Diaz and Al-Hilal for £46.5 million and £35 million signing of Darwin Nunez to Al-Hilal.

Caoimhin Kelleher, Tyler Morton, and Nat Phillips have also been sold, and Real Madrid has agreed to pay £8 million for Trent Alexander-Arnold’s early release from his contract, despite the Spanish club disputing this figure.

Phillips, Alexander-Arnold, Kelleher, Quansah, and Morton could receive between £80 and $90 million in initial fees as a result of the sale of Doak. The Reds received six players as development projects or as youth players, for an initial sum of $600,000. In terms of profit and sustainability calculations, the subsequent profit for players who are labeled as “homegrown” can all be taken to be “pure profit” to immediately boost the Reds.

Dango Ouattara was sold to Brentford last week for £42.5 million, which was a busy summer for Bournemouth.

Illia Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen, and Milos Kerkez have already been sold to Paris St-Germain, Real Madrid, and Liverpool for a total of roughly £150 million, respectively.

Andoni Iraola, manager of Bournemouth, claimed that his side is “not where they want to be” before the defeat at Anfield and that “important moves” will be made before the transfer window closes on September 1.

Eli Junior Kroupi, Eli Junior Kroupi, and left-back Adrien Truffert, who were also signed by the club in January, have all joined the club this summer.