The Bournemouth Sentinel
Squad18 Jun 2035
A fracture rules Santiago Apa out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bournemouth will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings18 Jun 2035
Luciano Gondou runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market18 Jun 2035
Malone Grailard 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.
Squad18 Jun 2035
Will McPartland gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Will McPartland has just signed for Bournemouth, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad18 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.
Squad18 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.
Match16 Jun 2035
Bournemouth get the job done against Birmingham
A 3‑1 win over Birmingham, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings18 Jun 2035
Ninety minutes of Cundo at his very best
Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bournemouth.
Player ratings18 Jun 2035
One of those days for Eli Junior Kroupi
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Josh Coburn
- Market A long bet from Bournemouth on Thomas Hunter
- Market Crawley Town are about to pick up the phone