Benjamin Ellis

Left Wingback - Bournemouth U20
19 Oct 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Benjamin Ellis

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The Bournemouth Sentinel

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Bournemouth, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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