Bournemouth
Today's Talking Points
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1Bournemouth have a new man in the dugout — Marco Rose replaced Andoni Iraola this summer after Iraola left to take the Liverpool job. Big shoes to fill: Iraola had the Cherries playing some of the best football outside the traditional top six.
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2Rose inherited a squad that lost several of its best players over the summer — Dean Huijsen to Real Madrid, Illia Zabarnyi to PSG — and yet Bournemouth still finished 6th last season. That's the kind of recruitment record that makes rival clubs jealous.
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3It's been a slow start under the new boss: Bournemouth are still without a Premier League win, with late goals costing them against Manchester City, Everton and Newcastle. Frustrating, but hardly a crisis given the calibre of that opposition.
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4To make life harder, Bournemouth were handed one of the toughest opening fixture runs in the league this season, starting with Manchester City. Worth mentioning if anyone questions why the results haven't come yet.
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5There was at least a first win under Rose — in the Carabao Cup, against Lincoln City. Not the competition anyone cares about most, but a start is a start.
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Top thing to say down the pub
Bournemouth sell their best players every summer and somehow keep getting better anyway — nobody's quite sure how they do it.
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Avoid saying
"Bournemouth are relegation fodder" — they finished 6th last season while selling half their back four, so that line went out of date a while ago.
