Bournemouth called Bayer Leverkusen to inquire about the availability of Justin Kluivert, Talksport understands.
The German side is a replacement for Florian Wirtz, which Liverpool will join for a first £ 100 million with another £ 16 million add-ons.
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Kluivert had an excellent season and Leverkusen believed that he could get even better
The new Leverkusen manager and the former boss of Manchester United, Erik Ten Hag, is supposed to drive the potential step forward and cluivered as the perfect profile in order to fill the emptiness left by Wirtz.
Bournemouth has made Leverkusen clear that Kluivert is not for sale. In the past, however, the owner Bill Foley has said that he will not stand in the way of the output of the player at the right price.
The cherries have already lost Dean Huijsen against Real Madrid this summer, and Milos Kerkez will probably be in Liverpool’s next addition.
Bournemouth could also be open to offers for Illia Zabarnyi, who arouses interest from Paris Saint-Germain and has a considerable interest of the Premier League.
In contrast to Huijsen, no of these players, including Kluivert, has publication clauses.
The 26 -year -old Kluivert will be contracted by 2028.
He scored 12 goals and led six templates in the Premier League last season when Andoni Iraola’s team ended with a Premier League of Club Record Premier League with 56 points.
Bournemouth has not set a price, but if they had decided to assume that Kluivert would probably cost the fee of 9.6 million GBP, which the club paid to Roma in June 2023.
Ten HAG is playing a key role in recruitment at Leverkusen this summer, after replacing Xabi Alonso, and it is assumed that he is Kluivert as good for his system and is able to add urgently needed goals and assists due to the absence of Wirtz.
It remains to be seen whether a deal is possible or Leverkusen returns with an offer, but Bournemouth made it clear that its permanent preference is to capture the versatile Dutch attacker.
Kluivert has achieved some impressive numbers on the south coast
Kluivert is the son of the legendary Patrick and broke through in Ajax.
In search of Roma, Leipzig, Nice and Valencia, it followed, but it was under Andoni Iraola, where he really found his feet.
A target return of 13 is his career as the best and 21 target contributions in all competitions in the certificates a earlier high of 15 at Ajax in 2017/18.
The talent born in Amsterdam also secured a piece of the Premier League story during the 2024/25 campaign and was the first player to achieve a hat trick in a 4-2 win in December.
Kluivert’s form also collapsed him in Ronald Koeman’s Dutch squad, in which he reached five international upper limits in their two June games in 2025 – his best in one calendar year.
For Leverkusen, it shouldn’t be a problem after its massive sales to cough the necessary money for Kluivert.
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