Frustrated Christian Atsu is back to his mother club, Chelsea, ostensibly for treatment after picking a stress fracture while on international duty for Ghana last September.
Atsu, whose game-time has been limited to two League Cup appearances since he joined Bournemouth on a season-long loan from Chelsea, has been back at Stamford for almost a month and could spend four more weeks as he struggles to regain his form.
Bournemouth coach, Eddie Hower, questioned on why he was not using the Ghanaian winger, said.