MANAGER Jason Tindall insisted Cherries would not be held to paying “over the odds” for players in the transfer market.

The Cherries boss was speaking before the closure of this season’s domestic transfer deadline – with the window shutting at 5pm on Friday.

Cherries have already moved to bring in Spanish winger Rodrigo Riquelme on a season-long loan from Atletico Madrid - also with an option to buy the 20-year-old.

And Tindall insisted any business had to be done to the club’s valuations of players, should any further additions come through the door of the Dorset club.

Asked how difficult the market could be, also amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, Tindall told the Daily Echo: “Every transfer window is tough for so many different reasons and there are so many hurdles that need to be jumped over.

“First of all, you need to identify the players you want and their respective clubs need to agree to sell him – and the player needs to want to come.

“There’s so many things that can happen to get players to come to the football club and to get over the line. It’s not just as straight forward as ‘I want that player’ and then you go and sign him’.

“The most important thing is we do our business in the right way and we feel that whatever we spend is the right money and the players are going to add value to the football club.”

Since their relegation from the Premier League last summer, Cherries have recouped hefty transfer fees following the departures of Nathan Ake (£41million), Callum Wilson (£20million) and Aaron Ramsdale (£18.5million).

The Daily Echo also understands Cherries have rejected a £13million offer from West Ham for striker Joshua King.

Asked whether it made it more difficult to negotiate fees to sign players, with clubs knowing Cherries have received big transfer sums, Tindall replied: “Not really, because we will have a valuation in our head in terms of what we feel a respective player would be worth.

“Regardless of what (fees) we’ve brought in, that doesn’t change anything. Everybody has got a price and a value, to both clubs.

“If we’ve got one valuation and another club’s got a higher valuation – obviously the deal doesn’t happen.

“We are not going to pay over the odds for players because we have sold players for x amount of money.

“The most important thing for us is we sign the right players at the right price.

“If we can do that then great, if not, we move on.”

Quizzed on whether it was important for Cherries not to be held to ransom on inflated fees, Tindall replied: “One hundred per-cent. I don’t think we can, I don’t think we should and we won’t.

“We’ve got the valuations with what we feel is right, or what we want to spend.

“If clubs think we should spend more, their valuation is higher, then there is a lot of players out there.”