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The Bournemouth Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Bournemouth say no — this time

The offer from Middlesbrough for Tyler Adams was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

A career in one shirt: Adam Smith

14 seasons and 461 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Market

Olympiacos watching Ryan Christie

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Bournemouth have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Evanilson raises the bar for Bournemouth

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bournemouth heard it as anything else.

Squad

A falling-out at Bournemouth

Michele Di Gregorio and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Ademide Solanke signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ademide Solanke and Bournemouth agree another 5 years.

Transfer targets

Ajax Cape Town tell Bournemouth: Bradley Dolly is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

A row about effort at Bournemouth

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and António Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Still no ink between Bournemouth and Ademide Solanke

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bournemouth, another week without a signature from Ademide Solanke.

In brief