The Arsenal midfielder’s choice of the south coast club is seen as particularly surprising in some quarters given that the likes of Milan and Roma were reportedly interested.
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The surprise move is still to come though, with many clubs sniffing around the possibility of taking Jack Wilshere on a season-long loan.
Valencia also completed the season-long loan signing of Eliaquim Mangala after the Manchester City defender arrived in Spain for a medical.
Wilshere has been hampered by a series of injuries and unsavoury off-field incidents in recent seasons and was left out of Sam Allardyce’s first England squad this week.
And, after his representatives held meetings with Palace and Bournemouth on Tuesday, Wilshere made a decision to head to the south coast in order to revive his career.
Wilshere was loaned to Bolton in 2010 and made considerable progress.
“A product of our academy, Jack has been with us since the age of nine”.
“Jack is a fantastic addition to the club”, Bournemouth chief executive Neill Blake said after Wilshere was pictured holding up the club’s red and black striped shirt outside their Dean Court stadium. We’ve got other targets who we are pursuing today so we’re having a look at those just as much as we’re looking at Jack.
The Germany worldwide is the Frenchman’s fifth summer signing and joins Granit Xhaka, Takuma Asano, Rob Holding and Lucas Perez in what was a very busy summer window for the North Londoners.
The England worldwide opted for the Cherries, and he will spend this season on loan at the Vitality Stadium looking to get much-needed game time after a string of injuries. “The chairman and the board have done brilliantly”.
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“The people in charge in Bremen worked very hard to bring me here, and I am sure that this will be a successful move”. Wenger recruited Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka over the summer to bolster his options in the middle of the park, with Mesut Ozil, Santi Cazorla, Aaron Ramsey, Mohamed Elneny, Francis Coquelin and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also competing for places.
