ANDONI Iraola refused to guarantee Mark Travers will get game-time at Cherries, after he was recalled from a loan spell at Stoke City.

Travers was impressing for the Championship Potters, who have already expressed a desire for the Irishman to return in the January transfer window.

Cherries were granted permission under ‘exceptional circumstances’ to recall Travers, having been left with Andrei Radu as their only available senior goalkeeper.

Neto is ruled out with an ankle injury, while Darren Randolph is unavailable due to health reasons.

Radu has featured in the past two matches, against Burnley and Liverpool.

Travers was on the bench against the Clarets, just hours after the Premier League ratified his return from Stoke.

Asked how the 24-year-old felt about returning, Iraola told the Daily Echo: “Everything was very fast.

“We met just before the game the other day.

“We talked (on Monday) a little bit about his situation, because it is difficult for him also.

“One day he was playing against Leeds and then in two days you are coming here, you have to travel and settle in.

“At least he knows everyone here, we know him. He was with us in pre-season. It shouldn’t be difficult for him to settle in again.”

Speaking at the end of last season, Travers made clear his wishes for a campaign of regular first-team football, having played second fiddle to Neto for much of last season.

He was getting exactly that at Stoke, but Iraola would not confirm he will get the same opportunity back at Cherries.

Asked if the plan is for Travers to be given some game-time in the coming weeks, Iraola said: “I don’t know.

“It will depend on the performance of Andrei, of his performance, how we feel they are training and we will go with the one we think gives us more chances to win.

“But there are situations we don’t know how they are going to develop.

“We will try to put the one I think will give us more. But we don’t have plans.

“We have to see how they train, how they feel, how they perform and from there we have to take the decisions.”