Tyler Adams Leeds
Adams over the weekend completed his switch to the south coast from Leeds United, for a reported £23million. The midfielder made 26 appearances for Leeds last season, but could not prevent them from suffering relegation into the Championship. However, he has quickly found himself back in the top tier, with Cherries.
Tyler Adams said: “I’m very excited to say the least. The excitement of the Premier League last year was amazing. It was a dream come true to have an opportunity to represent a team and obviously how the season ended wasn’t to my liking. Now to have the opportunity to join another amazing club like Bournemouth, I’m very excited to get started.”
Asked what he learnt about the Premier League from playing in it last season,
Tyler Adams added: “That it’s the best league in the world. It definitely doesn’t lack quality. Week in, week out you’re playing games against the highest calibre of players, highest calibre of managers and it throws something new at you every opportunity that you get. Growing up, all I watched was the Premier League. So last year, having that opportunity to fulfil that dream was amazing.”
Adams had previously been linked with a move away to Chelsea earlier this summer, but has now completed his switch to Cherries.
Tyler Adams said: “A lot of things attracted me to Bournemouth. The manager himself is one of the up and coming young managers in the world. He was actually playing for NYCFC when I was playing at New York Red Bulls and coming through the system there, so having a little bit of familiarity there. The amazing sporting director (Richard Hughes) and CEO (Neill Blake), through so many conversations about how I’ll be used in this amazing project that they’re building here was very exciting as well. The club’s ambition is something that matches mine for sure. They want to take their game to the top and they have people in and around the club now that are able to do that. When they showed that ambition through the owner, the CEO and the sporting director, now having an ambitious coach as well, attracting players, which is very important obviously to the succession of the team, it excited me a lot.”
During his time with New York Red Bulls and RB Leipzig, Adams has already racked up trophies including the MLS Supporters Shield and DFB-Pokal. Discussing those past experiences he can bring into the young squad at Cherries,
Tyler Adams said: “I’ve been extremely fortunate for some of the clubs that I’ve played in and some of the situations that I’ve been involved in. Winning a Supporters Shield in MLS at a very young age inside a very good team, going to Germany and playing in a couple of cup finals and having the opportunity to win one as well. I’ve been very fortunate I would say. The teams that I’ve been on have been very, very good. And taking those experiences and taking that hunger to want to win titles, hopefully I can bring that here and start to push the club forward.”
