The Bournemouth Sentinel
Market9 Sep 2030
Tyrese Hall agrees terms with Northampton Town
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bournemouth people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market9 Sep 2030
Jordan Storey 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 The request is on a desk at Bournemouth, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market9 Sep 2030
Only the photograph left for Idris Odutayo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Idris Odutayo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bournemouth the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Words exchanged at Bournemouth
Marcus Tavernier and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Shaun Wade is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad9 Sep 2030
Alex Scott falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match7 Sep 2030
Bournemouth see off Sheffield United
Three points for Bournemouth, 2‑1 the final word against Sheffield United in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad9 Sep 2030
A late step up for Zane Albarus
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market9 Sep 2030
Benjamin Ellis steps up from the Bournemouth academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Ellis has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Marcus Tavernier at his very best
- The dugout No hiding place for Liam Cullen
- Loan watch Diego Di Salvatore wants to come home