The Bournemouth Sentinel
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Pressure builds in the Bournemouth boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
the manager has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bournemouth can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Player ratings4 Jun 2035
Amine Adli runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market4 Jun 2035
Harry Lewis hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bournemouth can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Stephen Moore keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bournemouth may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad4 Jun 2035
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.
Market4 Jun 2035
Josh Coburn wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bournemouth hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Boardroom4 Jun 2035
Thomas Watson has agreed to leave Bournemouth for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Adrien Truffert 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.
In brief
- Squad Lewis Cook signs on for more
- Match The goals have deserted Bournemouth
- Market Crawley Town join the queue for Richard Thompson