It’s Deadline Day for the Premier League summer transfer window, which means rumours are being reported on every single transfer…except for one. Bournemouth have managed to pull off a shock transfer for Veljko Milosavljevi\u0107 without anybody knowing. The signing matches their recruitment strategy of exciting young prospects.<\/p>\n
Be sure to keep up with all of our\u00a0Transfer Deadline Day<\/a>\u00a0coverage on this hectic summer window closer.<\/p>\n Bournemouth have officially announced<\/a> the signing of Milosavljevi\u0107, without any real rumours in the lead-up to it. Mark McAdam gave his praises to the Cherries, as he said they have “done the impossible”.<\/a> The journalist continued to reveal<\/a> that the fee is \u00a313 million and, unusually in modern football, there are no add-ons, despite the player being just 18-years-old.<\/p>\n This morning (September 1), with an Axel Disasi deal looking unlikely, Cherries fans may have been concerned that the club were not going to bring in another defender. Alex Crook even reported<\/a> that the hierarchy would be happy with their summer business if Alex Jimenez was their last signing.<\/p>\n This would simply not have been good enough for Bournemouth’s squad depth. Losing stars Illia Zabarnyi and Dean Huijsen over the summer not only disrupted Andoni Iraola’s starting backline, but also left him very short on back-up options. Even after Bafode Diakite’s signing, James Hill was first back-up; the player with ~500 Premier League minutes went on to make a mistake leading to goal in his only start this season against Brentford in the cup.<\/p>\n Read More: <\/strong>\u2018It\u2019s All Done\u2019: Bournemouth Agree to Pay Full \u2018Demanded\u2019 Fee for International Star<\/a><\/p>\n After Hill, Matai Akinmboni (yet to make his debut) was the next centre-back choice, with Chris Mepham departing. This would not nearly have been adequate depth for a side wanting to push for Europe. However, even with the signing of Milosavljevic\u0301, it could be argued that Iraola is still left with very inexperienced depth. The Serbian is a teenage “sensation”<\/a>, but is he good enough right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Deadline Day for the Premier League summer transfer window, which means rumours are being reported on every single transfer…except for one. Bournemouth have managed to pull off a shock transfer for Veljko Milosavljevi\u0107 without anybody knowing. The signing matches their recruitment strategy of exciting young prospects. Be sure to keep up with all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4784,"featured_media":644393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,3,7188],"tags":[1896,2604],"class_list":["post-659039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-bournemouth","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-bournemouth","tag-transfer-deadline-day"],"modified_by":"Henry Chung, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659049,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659039\/revisions\/659049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Bournemouth Pull Off Shock Transfer Without Any Rumours<\/h2>\n
No Add-Ons for Veljko Milosavljevi\u0107<\/h3>\n
A New Defender Was Crucial: But Is He Good Enough?<\/h3>\n