Alex Tóth

Defensive Midfielder - Bournemouth
18 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Alex Tóth

12 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Real improvement from Alex Tóth at Bournemouth

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alex Tóth is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Bournemouth come up short against Liverpool

Liverpool left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A falling-out at Bournemouth

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

The dugout

Samuel Johnson faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Samuel Johnson after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near David Brooks

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Tyler Adams

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Bournemouth will feel it on Saturday.

Market

Alex Scott linked with a move away

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

Player ratings

The one thing Ryan Christie could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Looking ahead

Tyler Adams goes back to face Leeds United

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tyler Adams’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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Imrân Louza

Bournemouth and Watford have settled on $9.0M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market

Tyler Adams 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 The request is on a desk at Bournemouth, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Charlie Taylor says no to ADO Den Haag

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Charlie Taylor had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Welington

Bournemouth asked and Southampton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.6M for Gabriel Słonina

Bournemouth have gone to Chelsea with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Bournemouth until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Hull City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bournemouth did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Bournemouth go back to the board over Imrân Louza

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $10.0M — a club that wants Imrân Louza enough to be asked twice.

Player ratings

Amine Adli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

4 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Alex Scott leads the rout of Wolverhampton

3‑0, and Alex Scott took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Bournemouth tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Alex Scott scores twice — 8.46

Two goals and a mark of 8.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Udinese come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Bournemouth did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Bournemouth bid $2.6M for Charlie Taylor

The offer went to Southampton this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Bournemouth rebuffed over Lewis Dunk

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brighton have kept their man, and Bournemouth go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Matai Akinmboni moves on

Stockport County pay $550.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

The terraces

One of their own: Alex Scott

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Marcus Tavernier

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Bournemouth

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

In brief