Overview

• Sky Sports and others report the fee as £20m upfront plus £5m in add-ons, with the 19-year-old signing a five-year contract.
• Liverpool negotiated a buy-back option as a condition of the sale, continuing a policy used on recent young-player departures.
• Doak made 10 senior appearances for Liverpool and impressed on loan at Middlesbrough last season with three goals and seven assists in 24 games.
• He becomes Bournemouth’s fourth summer addition and is viewed as a replacement for Dango Ouattara after his £42.5m move to Brentford.
• Liverpool’s transfer business remains active, with reported interest persisting in Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi and Newcastle striker Alexander Isak.