Matt Ritchie

Left Wingback - Retired
13 Nov 2027
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28 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad8 Feb 2027

Paco Alcácer breaks a bone — 86 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Đorđe Petrović stands alone

10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market8 Feb 2027

Matt Ritchie puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bournemouth, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market8 Feb 2027

Ryan Christie raises the bar for Bournemouth

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bournemouth heard it as anything else.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Paco Alcácer wants one last season at home

Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Bournemouth know now that the thought has arrived.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Michele Di Gregorio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michele Di Gregorio, and the manager let it.

Match6 Feb 2027

Pablo Felipe’s goal not enough for Bournemouth

Pablo Felipe scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sunderland, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Stephen Atkinson answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Bournemouth pick somebody else ahead of Michele Di Gregorio

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad28 Sep 2026

Evanilson wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bournemouth can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Match26 Sep 2026

Evanilson sends Bournemouth past Nottingham Forest

It finished 2‑0, and it was Evanilson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bournemouth.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

One of those days for Justin Kluivert

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Pablo Felipe gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

A satisfied Stephen Atkinson

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Stephen Atkinson could afford to be generous.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Bournemouth

Jonny Stuttle and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market28 Sep 2026

Lewis Cook linked with a move away

The name of Lewis Cook keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bournemouth say nothing, which says plenty.

Looking ahead28 Sep 2026

Matt Ritchie goes back to face Newcastle United

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Matt Ritchie’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Bournemouth needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

The chances came and went for Ryan Christie

4 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

In brief