Cherries take four on trial

AFC Bournemouth currently have four players training with the squad on trial, despite a transfer embargo still preventing Kevin Bond from signing new players. The Cherries were handed the embargo when they went into administration back in February, but with the Cherries Football League meeting on the 10th, there is a chance that the embargo could be lifted in the not so distant future. (assuming everything goes smoothly - which isn't likely if recent off the field activities are anything to go by.) The four players currently with the squad and hoping to impress are 32 year old Sammy Igoe, Corrin Brooks-Meade, Alex Bailey and Carl Pettefer. Igoe is a midfielder with over 400 Football League appearances for Portsmouth, Reading, Luton, Swindon, Millwall, Bristol Rovers and Hereford. He has now been released from Bristol Rovers... [read full story]