Andrew Wright

Right Forward - Bournemouth
26 May 2047
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andrew Wright

1072 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

11 Feb 2047
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Angelo Negri is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bournemouth is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

6 matches without a win for Bournemouth

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Bournemouth are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Harry Gray 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Bournemouth against Hull City

0‑2 to Hull City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Jason James signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jason James commits to Bournemouth for another 2 years.

Squad

Jack Fletcher 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Steven Kelly

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andrew Wright

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

The Mark Brown talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bournemouth know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

Back issues
1068 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

14 Jan 2047
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Angelo Negri

There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Bournemouth turn down Benfica for Harry Gray

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Daniel Howard 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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Angelo Negri

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Angelo Negri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Bournemouth the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Harry Gray 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.

Boardroom

Angelo Negri signs for Sunderland while still at Bournemouth

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Angelo Negri has agreed terms with Sunderland for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Words at Bournemouth training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adam White 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.

Match

Honours even between Bournemouth and Manchester United

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Adam Wilson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief