{"id":19760,"date":"2026-07-21T20:49:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:49:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:49:37","slug":"alex-scott-rejects-new-bournemouth-deal-as-man-utd-chelsea-arsenal-and-liverpool-circle-for-midfield-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=19760","title":{"rendered":"Alex Scott rejects new Bournemouth deal as Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool circle for midfield star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Alex Scott has turned down a new contract at Bournemouth, amid transfer interest in the midfielder.<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Bournemouth have offered Scott an improved deal as the Cherries look to secure the 22-year-old&#8217;s future at the club.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Manchester United have monitored Scott during the summer transfer window, while Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool are all understood to be watching the situation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Bournemouth had hoped the proposal of a new contract, inclusive of a release clause, could persuade Scott to sign fresh terms, but Sky Sports are reporting that the offer has been rejected.<\/div>\n<p>Scott has two years to run on the contract he signed when joining Bournemouth from Bristol City for a fee of \u00a325m in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth value the midfielder in excess of \u00a360m, though will hope to attract larger bids given the inflated midfielder market this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot Anderson has joined Manchester City from Nottingham Forest for a fee of \u00a3116m, while Morgan Rogers is set to sign for Chelsea from Aston Villa for \u00a3117m. The latter deal will eclipse Anderson&#8217;s transfer as the most expensive involving an English footballer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Scott was a key part of a Bournemouth side that secured a top-six finish in the Premier League last season and achieved European qualification for the first time.<\/div>\n<p>Though yet to debut for England, he was called into the senior squad last November and was also involved in Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s pre-World Cup training camp in Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Scott has turned down a new contract at Bournemouth, amid transfer interest in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}