"No need for a fire sale at AFCB," says Tindall

Jason Tindall has had his first major interview with SkySports and has stressed that it won't be a fire sale at AFC Bournemouth this summer, as the club isn't in the position where it needs to sell eight or nine players. It was brave words, but we don't know how much weight we can put behind them apart from the fact that Tindall says he wouldn't be the manager of the club was going to sell its best players.

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Whether AFCB will now be tested in that we will have to wait and see. If the valuations for top players are met though as we saw with Nathan Aké, there is little the club can do if the players are partial to playing in a different league. Tindall seems to think many of the players want to stay and the club and try and win promotion back to the Premier League. I can see that being an incentive for some of the older players who want to give it one more crack, but those players that have been targeted by other clubs are going to be looking at their pay packets and what a season in the Championship would mean for their lifestyles.

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True enough, Bournemouth is a lovely place to play football. But does the town and the players that have said they want to stay make it more compelling for others to stay, with Tindall now as the new manager? Do some of them feel that they owe the club nothing now that Eddie Howe has left? Jason Tindall has much work to do to convince several stars to stay, even though they are in long-term contracts.

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What we do need to see is some movement on new signings coming in. The squad has to be improved and I'm intrigued to see what level of signings Bournemouth will make. The first one will set the standard and show the level of the club's intention. Then we will see if Tindall is making a big attempt to get promoted, or whether this could be another difficult season ahead for the Cherries.

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