Christopher King

Left Wingback - Bournemouth U18
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Christopher King

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The Bournemouth Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Bournemouth rebuffed over Reece James

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

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Raúl Rangel

Bournemouth and Guadalajara have settled on $8.2M. 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.

Transfer targets

Bournemouth bid $25.4M for Maxim Glushenkov

The offer went to Zenit 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.

Market

Business is business: Ben Gannon Doak goes

Manchester United paid $27.0M and Bournemouth took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Bournemouth say no — this time

The offer from Manchester United for Rayan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Bournemouth

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Liam Kelly joins the Bournemouth first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Kelly is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Christopher King steps up from the Bournemouth academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Christopher King 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.

Boardroom

Bournemouth sign off a bigger ground

A capacity of 15629 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.

In brief