It’s all change on the winger front at Bournemouth, with the captures of Ben Doak (£5.0m) and Amine Adli (price TBC).

Meanwhile, Dango Ouattara (£6.0m) has departed for Brentford and Luis Sinisterra (£5.0m) looks set to follow him through the exit door.

It’s time to take a look at the two new Cherries in our Scout Report.

Ben Doak: Brief History

Doak joined Liverpool from Celtic as a highly rated teenager in 2022 but struggled to find a pathway into the side, making only 10 appearances for the Reds. 

The 19-year-old spent last season on loan at Middlesbrough, where he impressed, producing three goals and seven assists in 24 Championship appearances before a hamstring injury cut short his season in January. 

The winger has also broken into the senior Scotland side, making six appearances, and would have featured at the Euros but for injury.

Amide Adli: Brief History

Having made his senior debut for Toulouse in December 2019, Adli was firmly integrated into the first team the following year. He won the Ligue 2 Player of the Season award while scoring eight goals and assisting seven more.

In August 2021, Bayer Leverkusen snapped him up for a reported €7.5m. Adli featured across then-manager Gerardo Seoane’s attack in both the Bundesliga and Europa League before a ruptured tendon cut his debut season short in early April. He missed several matches at the start of the following season with a broken collarbone, too.

Adli worked his way into regular contention under Marcos Alonso, initially as a (predominantly left) winger before lining up as a centre-forward and even a central midfielder towards the end of the 2022/23 campaign.

Though his starting role was reduced following the arrival of Victor Boniface and resurgence of Patrik Schick, Adli proved to be an integral part of Leverkusen’s invincible 2023/24 team that won the Bundesliga and the DFB-Pokal as well as reaching the Europa League final. Only eight of his 23 league appearances that season came as a starter, but the versatile Moroccan – featuring everywhere from the wings to attacking midfielder and the frontline – still scored four Bundesliga goals and assisted six more.

Adli was again limited to a substitute role for much of last season, though he did also miss just over three months of action from October 2024 to February 2025 due to a broken fibula.

Ben Doak: The Stats

We’ve got just one full season to go off with Doak, who is still only 19.

A minutes-per-shot average of 66 suggests he’s not going to be a profilic scorer, although the fact that his 27 shots last season were divided almost equally between left and right foot highlights his versatility.

He was more creative, as the assists column suggests. A chance created every 40 minutes, despite a lack of set-piece duties, was the joint-best among ‘Boro players who had logged at least 1,000 minutes of game-time.

Amine Adli: The Stats

Adli’s aforementioned leg break provides some explanation for his dip in output last season, but the prior campaigns at both Leverkusen and Toulouse are evidence of his ability to both score and assist at a solid rate despite frequently coming off the bench and also occupying different areas of the pitch.

He’s not overly reliant on penalties, having taken (and scored) just one spot-kick in his career. That’s good for his FPL prospects, as he almost certainly won’t unseat Justin Kluivert (£7.0m) as Bournemouth’s first-choice taker.

As a pacey dribbler, he’s also good drawing fouls, as evidenced by his winning of two penalties that proved pivotal in a big Leverkusen victory over Bayern during their title-winning season. More good news for Kluivert.

Adli’s minutes-per-shot average has been between 30 and 40 in all four seasons at Leverkusen (Dango’s was 33.2 last season, Semenyo’s 25.6), while his minutes-per-chance-created mean has never been beneath 40. Last season, it was a poor 68.9.

So, Doak more the creator, Adli the shooter.

Where Adli + Doak fit in at Bournemouth

Above: How Bournemouth lined up in Gameweek 1

Doak has played predominantly as a right winger, which is where Antoine Semenyo (£7.1m) played to great effect against Liverpool in Gameweek 1, but Iraola likes to use a fluid system and could find room for Doak, who is two-footed and could just as easily be deployed on the left flank.

Semenyo can equally play on the left wing.

And a glance at Adli’s various roles throughout his career suggests Iraola could view the Morocco international as his new Dango Ouattara, a versatile attacker capable of occupying just about any role from the wings to attacking midfield to up front.

Long term, with Ouattara gone and David Brooks (£5.0m) a bit of a makeshift left-wing option in Gameweek 1, Adli may be likeliest to line up as a left winger or left-sided attacking midfielder. That could put him on a collision course with Doak for game-time.

In the meantime, the ongoing calf injury-enforced absence of Kluivert could also see him fielded more centrally as a No10 or second striker behind Evanilson (£7.0m).

Is Adli or Doak worth buying in FPL?

Two Premier League rookies, one whose senior career pretty much amounts to one season in the Championship and the other who has had an injury-affected few years, mostly as an impact player, in the Bundesliga. And they’re both potentially competing for one position.

It’s a classic a ‘wait and see’ for both players in FPL at the moment, although Doak being priced at a bargain £5.0m means he’s definitely one to watch.

Bournemouth’s strong upcoming fixtures warrant some level of investment in the Cherries’ attack, which asked plenty of questions of the defending league champions at Anfield last Friday.

For now, though, someone like tried-and-tested shooter Semenyo – the scorer of both his side’s goals in Gameweek 1 – is a much safer bet than either new boy.