The Bournemouth Sentinel
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
The scrutiny sharpens at Bournemouth
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Bournemouth is running low.
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
Tomás Di María has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bournemouth can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
The terraces3 Jan 2028
Anger at Bournemouth spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Marcus Tavernier in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bournemouth this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Nothing got past Tyler Adams
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad3 Jan 2028
A move Dimitri Colau would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dimitri Colau is living that version at Bournemouth, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Jair in the eights
A performance of 9.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
Nothing got past Alex Scott
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings3 Jan 2028
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. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Match Bournemouth see off Nottingham Forest
- Squad The manager makes an example of Lewis Cook
- Squad Bournemouth keep their word to David Brooks