Jack Wilshere revealed a Christmas Eve phone call he made to manager Jason Tindall kick-started his return to Bournemouth.
Wilshere re-joined the south coast club this week on a short-term deal until the end of the season after leaving West Ham in October.
The former Arsenal midfielder, who spent the 2016-17 season at the Vitality Stadium, had been training alone while he weighed up his next options and said: 'I think it was Christmas Eve when I picked the phone up. I said "Jase, I've been training on my own for a while now.