Tyler Adams, a former Leeds United player, has been doing well since leaving Elland Road.
Adams returned to the Premier League with Bournemouth after only one season at Elland Road.
Leeds United supported head coach Jesse Marsch with a slew of new players in the summer of 2022 after narrowly avoiding relegation from the Premier League that season.
Among those brought in at Elland Road were two Red Bull Salzburg players, Rasmus Kristensen and Brenden Aaronson, while the American also persuaded director of football Victor Orta to raid another ex-Marsch club, RB Leipzig, for Tyler Adams.
The defensive midfielder, who had played 24 times in the German Bundesliga in 2021-22, joined United for a cost in the region of £20 million, and he was an ever-present for Leeds under Marsch and was set to be under Javi Gracia’s successor.
However, the 24-year-old, who has 36 caps for the US national team, sustained a season-ending hamstring injury in March, meaning he missed the club’s final 12 games as they tried to avoid relegation to the Championship.
Leeds won only two of those 12 games and were relegated, but if Adams had been fit and available, the outcome may have been quite different.
It was not to be, and Adams’ final game for Leeds was a 2-2 draw with Brighton in March, when he was sold to AFC Bournemouth in a £20 million deal, with the Cherries triggering his release clause and securing a deal after he was strongly projected to join Chelsea instead.
Tyler Adams has performed well since leaving Leeds United for Bournemouth.
When arriving at the Vitality Stadium in August, Adams had not played a game for over five months having undergone surgery on his injured hamstring, and that included not getting a pre-season under his belt.
Adams did make his long-awaited debut though for Bournemouth in an EFL Cup clash against Stoke City in late September, coming off the bench for the final 20 minutes in what was supposed to be the first step of his comeback.
However, disaster struck during his cameo as his hamstring issue flared up once again, with Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola stating in early October that it was the same muscle that had previously been operated on.
“They are asking different specialists to take the best route we have.
“We still haven’t decided.
But whatever the solution he takes or we take, we don’t expect him soon on the pitch. It’s the same hamstring.”
When will Tyler Adams return to action?
Unfortunately for Bournemouth fans, they are not going to see Adams in action again until at least late January 2024.
Following Iraola’s comments on another potential operation, Adams did indeed go under the knife in October, with his recovery time being in the region of three to four months.
That is a bitter blow not just to Adams, but to Bournemouth, their supporters and owner Bill Foley as well.
Foley gave the green light to the big-money move for Adams despite the fact he had surgery earlier this year, but no-one would have seen this setback coming.
Bournemouth have needed some added midfield steel as well in the opening few months of the season, and if Adams had been fit then perhaps they wouldn’t have been dominated in so many matches.
There’s little doubt that Adams will at some point get over the nightmare hamstring troubles he’s had since March, but for now, he will have to watch from afar.
