The Bournemouth Sentinel
Market28 Feb 2028
Evanilson asks to leave Bournemouth
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Evanilson scores twice — 9.05
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match26 Feb 2028
The run at home goes on for Bournemouth
13 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match26 Feb 2028
Whatever happens, Bournemouth do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Amine Adli was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces28 Feb 2028
The crowd has taken to Álex Jiménez
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match26 Feb 2028
Bournemouth find a way past Manchester City
Manchester City made Bournemouth work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market28 Feb 2028
Jacob Evans steps up from the Bournemouth academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jacob Evans 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
One of our own: Harry Hall joins the Bournemouth first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Harry Hall is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: David White joins the Bournemouth first team
- Player ratings A masterclass from Bafodé Diakité
- Squad Tomás Silva in a row with a teammate