Updated: 14 May 2026 10:52 BST |<\/span> Cameron Smith Accredited sports journalist covering football since 2020 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Bournemouth chief Tiago Pinto has insisted that sought-after forward Eli Junior Kroupi will not be sold during the upcoming summer transfer window.<\/p>\n Kroupi, 19, has enjoyed an excellent debut campaign at the Vitality Stadium and he has emerged as a target for several top European clubs in recent weeks, with the likes of Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain all interested in signing him.<\/p>\n However, the Frenchman\u2019s current contract runs until 2030 and rumours have suggested that a transfer fee of up to \u20ac100 million will be required to sign him this summer.<\/p>\n Antoine Semenyo, Milos Kerkez, Dean Huijsen, Ilya Zabarnyi and Dango Ouattara have all left Andoni Iraola\u2019s side over the past 12 months, but Pinto has revealed that a deal for Kroupi will not be finalised this summer as Bournemouth have no intention of sanctioning a sale.<\/p>\n The Cherries\u2019 Head of Football Operations told Saudi Arabian publication 365scores<\/b>: \u201cJunior Kroupi will not be leaving the club. His contract is for more than four years, there is no release clause in the contract, and he will not be going anywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not sell Kroupi even if we receive offers of \u20ac100m.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Bournemouth are evidently eager to avoid selling Kroupi this summer, it\u2019s easy to see why clubs such as Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd are keeping close tabs on his development.<\/p>\n The France U21 international has been one of the breakout stars of the 2025-26 Premier League season and with Arsenal keen to bolster their attacking options this summer, Kroupi makes perfect sense as a target.<\/p>\n He is a versatile attacker capable of playing across the forward line and with 12 goals in the English top flight this term, he clearly hasn\u2019t struggled to adapt to the rigours of the division at all.<\/p>\n Kroupi\u2019s positional awareness means he often finds space on the edge of the penalty area, he is capable of shooting powerfully off either foot, and when he starts deeper, his late runs into the box make him almost impossible to mark. It\u2019s why a number of his goals have come from around the penalty spot this term.<\/p>\n But, with Bournemouth potentially set to qualify for the Champions League, it\u2019s clear why a sale has been ruled out ahead of the summer window.<\/p>\n Arsenal can sign Declan Rice 2.0 on cut-price deal after ‘devastating’ World Cup snub<\/b><\/p>\n Fabrizio Romano Transfer News: Carrick to stay, operation Mourinho, Chelsea manager race<\/b><\/p>\n Transfer Rumours: Man Utd chase Bellingham as \u20ac50m Chelsea demand revealed<\/b><\/p>\n Check out FootballTransfers’ new app for all of football’s big storylines, transfer rumours and exclusive news in one convenient place directly on your mobile device.<\/p>\n The FootballTransfers app is available on Google Play and in the Apple App Store. Download here:<\/p>\n \u2022Google Play<\/b><\/p>\n \u2022App Store<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Updated: 14 May 2026 10:52 BST | 4 min read \u00a9 IMAGO Cameron Smith |…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8613","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\/8613","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=8613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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