Bournemouth's Adams sidelined after back surgery

Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams is facing a lengthy spell connected nan sidelines aft having backmost surgery.

Adams joined Bournemouth successful a woody successful excess of £20m from Leeds past summer.

However, nan USA midfielder endured an injury-plagued debut run pinch nan Cherries restricting him to 4 Premier League appearances.

He subsequently played for his state astatine nan Copa America.

Sources person said Bournemouth advised USA unit to return attraction pinch Adams.

In nan end, he featured successful each 3 group games, positive a pre-tournament friends against Brazil, including nan afloat 90 minutes of nan last lucifer against Uruguay arsenic nan USA made an earlier than expected exit from nan competition.

Cherries leader Andoni Iraola explained Adams aggravated a backmost problem he started to acquisition astatine nan extremity of nan home campaign, and nan only solution was an operation.

“He vanished nan play pinch an wounded successful his back,” said nan Spaniard.

“He wanted to play Copa America because it was very important for him, but he had restrictions and was still successful pain, truthful 2 days aft they were knocked out, he had surgery.

“He is retired for immoderate time. It is difficult to opportunity really agelong but he won’t beryllium fresh for nan commencement of nan season. But September? October? I don’t know.”

Asked why Bournemouth did not extremity Adams from going connected world duty, Iraola said: “It was not our choice. It is simply a determination for nan nations, who are allowed to prime players, and he wanted to play reasoning nan wounded would get amended but he felt it was getting worse.”

Adams has already started his rehabilitation and is pinch Bournemouth connected their existent circuit of California, which features games pinch Wrexham successful Santa Barbara (00:00 BST connected Sunday morning) and Arsenal successful Carson (03:30 BST connected Thursday).

The bully news, truthful far, for Bournemouth is that prima striker Dominic Solanke remains pinch nan nine and is portion of nan squad that will look Wrexham.

It has been reported nan erstwhile Liverpool guardant has a £65m merchandise clause successful his statement that tin only beryllium activated by definite clubs.

Iraola does not want to suffer Solanke, who scored an awesome 21 goals successful each competitions, including 19 successful nan Premier League, which led nan 26-year-old to decorativeness 4th successful nan Golden Boot standings.

However, nan Bournemouth leader is adopting a philosophical approach.

“Dom is happy,” he said. “He has travel backmost successful very bully shape, is training very good and nan narration he has pinch his team-mates is very good.

“But nan marketplace is open. You cannot opportunity he is going to enactment aliases that he is going to time off because we don’t know. In nan end, it is thing you cannot control.”