{"id":801531,"date":"2026-10-13T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801531\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:10:09","slug":"bournemouth-open-to-alex-scott-sale-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/801531\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth open to Alex Scott sale in January"},"content":{"rendered":"

The decision to consider Scott’s sale is a bitter-sweet one for Bournemouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club entered the season insisting none of their prized assets, including Scott, Rayan and Eli Junior Kroupi, would be sold before the summer of 2027.<\/p>\n

However, they have since reluctantly concluded they would be prepared to let Scott leave if their valuation is met.<\/p>\n

Bournemouth<\/a> can point to a market in which spending on midfielders has reached unprecedented levels across the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Three players have commanded fees of more than \u00a3100m in the position and the Cherries are seeking a similar amount for Scott.<\/p>\n

A TransferRoom report, released on Tuesday, shows spending on defensive midfielders rose by “191% to 1.38bn euros , while the average fee increased by 156% to 9.9m euros – the highest average fee of any position.”<\/p>\n

There is also frustration within the club that Scott picked up an injury while away with England. <\/p>\n

He entered the camp carrying tightness, only for the issue to worsen and leave him sidelined for about six weeks.<\/p>\n

That came after Kroupi sustained a serious injury in pre-season, causing him to miss the entire season so far, with a return not expected until November.<\/p>\n

New manager Marco Rose is yet to win a league match, with the 5-1 defeat by Chelsea<\/a> representing the lowest point of his tenure so far.<\/p>\n

There remains hope results will improve. Iraola endured an even longer winless run when he first took charge, while there is excitement surrounding Bournemouth<\/a>‘s Europa League campaign.<\/p>\n

Their European adventure began with an impressive win against Real Sociedad and continues with a home game against Sturm Graz on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision to consider Scott’s sale is a bitter-sweet one for Bournemouth. The club entered the season insisting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}