The Bournemouth Sentinel
Squad2 Oct 2034
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.
Match30 Sep 2034
The wait goes on for Bournemouth
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market2 Oct 2034
Lewis Cook wants more than Bournemouth are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Santiago Apa signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Santiago Apa and Bournemouth agree another 2 years.
Player ratings2 Oct 2034
Cundo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom2 Oct 2034
Wages eat 136% of everything Bournemouth earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Oct 2034
Words at Bournemouth training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Patut is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad2 Oct 2034
No hiding place for Salvatore Pezzella
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salvatore Pezzella, and the manager let it.
Market2 Oct 2034
The Adrien Truffert question follows Bournemouth around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Adrien Truffert’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Match Bournemouth and Rotherham United cancel each other out
- Market Christopher Evans placed on the list