When you get promoted back to the Premier League, there are two ways you can handle your transfer business.
You can follow the Nottingham Forest method, which is to buy a whole new team as well as an entire set of substitutes, or you can follow AFC Bournemouth’s approach, which is to carefully pick and choose your signings while minding your bank balance.
Scott Parker’s side have been rather quiet on the transfer market in general, spending just £24m on five players, with three of those being free transfers.
Marcos Senesi and Marcus Tavernier are where the money went, but Bournemouth could be about to get a new player.
That’s because L’Equipe in France are claiming the Cherries are ‘in talks’ to sign Jean-Claude Billong, currently at Clermont.
In search of a new centre-back, Bournemouth have targeted the 28-year-old, who spent the first two games of the Ligue 1 season on the bench.
In fact, Billong ‘isn’t sure to wear the Clermont shirt again’, because the French side ‘would be ready to cancel the final year of the centre-back’s contract’, as the player would have ‘started talks’ with Parker and co.
They aren’t the only club interested, however, as Greuther Fürth are also keen.
Another potential free transfer for Bournemouth, then.
