Ipswich Town signing Brett Pitman says he'll always be a Bournemouth fan.

Pitman, who spent two fruitful spells at Dean Court, severed ties with the club last week when he joined Championship outfit Ipswich.

Asked if Cherries supporters had seen the last of him, Pitman told the Daily Echo: “Hopefully not, we will have to see.

“It would depend on a lot of factors. It would depend on where Bournemouth were as a club and where I was as a player, a coach or a manager.

“You just don't know. If you had a crystal ball in football, it would make things a hell of a lot easier so it is a difficult question to answer definitively.

“But I would love to come back in some role as a player or coach because I have always said I class this as my home now. I don't think you can rule out anything in football.

“When I went to Bristol, if anyone had said then that I would come back to Bournemouth, I probably wouldn't have believed them so who knows what the future holds?"