BRENDAN Rodgers has tipped Bournemouth to join Liverpool in the top flight next season after navigating his team's progress past the Championship leaders in the quarter-finals of the Capital One Cup. Rodgers has seen enough of Eddie Howe's men, who came into that clash on the back of a 12-game unbeaten run, to suggest they will be heading to the likes of Anfield in the top flight come August.
"They are a wonderful team and have got an outstanding young manager," said Rodgers. "They can go on and get promoted, they thoroughly deserve it, they are a wonderful club. "So good luck to them, hopefully they can keep going. I think they can get promoted, that was 12 games unbeaten and I saw their win against Cardiff (a 5-3 victory last week) and some of their other games."