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title: "Howe makes statement on future of Chelsea-linked Ake"
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author: "Sam Brown"
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published: "2019-01-29T12:58:50Z"
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# Howe makes statement on future of Chelsea-linked Ake

Nathan Ake isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, or at least in the words of his manager.

The Bournemouth central defender has been linked with a move back to Chelsea, who are understood to have inserted a buy-back clause of £35 million into the deal which saw the Dutchman head to the Cherries on a permanent basis in 2017.

Having joined the Blues in 2011 from the Feyenoord youth system, the now 23-year-old went professional with the West Londoners a year later, making his debut in a Premier League fixture against Norwich City.

Several loan spells saw the centre-half receive a good amount of first-team football, and Chelsea bosses decided the time was right two years ago to wave farewell to yet another of their prodigies.

![Dan Mullan/Getty Images Sport](https://cdn.readeverything.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1076554526.jpg)

As is becoming common practice in these kind of transfers, Chelsea have the chance to reacquire the Netherlands international should the man himself decide its a move he wants to make.

Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe has swept aside speculation his key centre-back could be off, however.

[Quoted by the Daily Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/transfer-news-live-chelsea-arsenal-13900072), Howe said:

> The speculation, as it has been all January, has been purely that.

> We’ve had not contact from any other club so it’s business as usual.

Definitive – for now, at least…