Thomas Bailey

Striker - Free Agent
22 Sep 2038
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Thomas Bailey

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The Bournemouth Sentinel

19 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Bournemouth

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad

A fracture rules Sebastian Rodriguez out for 55 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.

Squad

Alex Scott 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.

Squad

Ben Gannon Doak has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bournemouth will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Tottenham are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Bournemouth will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

The Amine Adli story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Amine Adli signs something — a contract at Bournemouth or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

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573 Edition

The Bournemouth Sentinel

20 Jul 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

A move Thomas Bailey would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Thomas Bailey is living that version at Bournemouth, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

The Christopher Barnes conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Sheffield will make the call about Christopher Barnes this week. Bournemouth have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Bournemouth

7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Marcus Tavernier has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bournemouth will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief