Um, I mean, was that always the plan just to bring in a few players or were there more on the radar who they didn't manage to, to get through the door?

So I think, um, I think, I think when you look at the, the net spend table for the summer, I think it was interesting that Sunderland, Bournemouth and Palace were all, I think three of the four bottom sides, um, which I think says quite a lot about the European SCR rules, um, and having to meet them.

And I think that probably was quite a big consideration.

I think they were quite comfortable with the Premier League ones, but the European ones they were tight on.

So it was quite, it was pretty much a summer of one in, one out basically.

Um, so Antonio Silva came in for, for, uh, Marcos Senesi.

He obviously left at the end of his contract to go to Spurs.

When you've seen Bournemouth on the pitch this season, have you seen subtle differences to how they've lined up from last year, or is it just like for like? Is it just try to carry on the way they were playing last season?

Is there much concern about the club's start this season?

I think if you look at certain quarters on Twitter, there is.

But I think you sort of get that with everyone.

I don't think it's...

I don't think it's...

I think it's too early to be thinking in sort of those terms.

Particularly when you look at all six results on paper in isolation, you look at them all and go, well, actually, they're not too bad, the results by themselves.

What was the experience like and how will Bournemouth fans look back on it in years to come, do you think?

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match, unbelievable.

Yeah, he was brilliant.

He had a big part in three goals and two assists.

And I think the third one, just some really good centre-forward hold-up play.

Found the right pass and it was excellent.

So it sort of seems like he's the right fit for a Marco Reyes-style team.

It's just whether there's the extra issue of the Europa League squad not being a very big one that you can submit.

I mean, I think,

And I was trying to... work out the formation I was watching on a stream and at times it looked like a sort of 4-1-4-1 and then other times a 4-2-2-2 and then it seemed that Evan Ilsen was playing remarkably deep at times Christy was deep than I expected as well do you think he's just experimenting at this point or could this be what he wants to do going forward because I noticed your story talking about maybe Evan Ilsen being a nine and a half is this new football terminology or what

Yeah, I think it was interesting.

I think Rosa has a history of playing two up front at previous clubs, so that possibly wasn't a surprise.

But yeah, I think speaking to him, that sort of quote that you mentioned there, he sort of... said that he thinks that Evan Ilsen has sort of all the attributes to be sort of that hybrid player between a striker and a 10, really, and seemed to be sort of doing that against St. Paul.

So, yeah, I think that could be something we see more of.

I think apart from anything else, I think him and Alvaro Rodriguez have already struck up a bit of a friendship off the pitch.

So sometimes those friendships can translate quite nicely onto the pitch as well.

I sort of wonder, I know he's a player this season, but do you think this is a coaching role almost waiting to happen for Fraser Forster later down the line maybe?

But is there a difference chatting to them now than what it is when you're chatting to them two weeks into a season or two months into a season, for instance?

Yeah, I mean, the most chats I have with players tend to be in mixed zones and sort of mood in mixed zones can really vary depending on the result, as you can imagine.

And sort of sometimes mixed zones can be sort of relatively negative after a bad result or something.

But yeah, Yeah, I think they're both feeling really confident.

Obviously, Ben coming off a really good World Cup and a few months where he hasn't been injured, touch wood, and he's got the feeling that he's feeling good in himself and he's looking forward to it.

And obviously, Ryan coming into it off the back of signing a new contract and I spoke to him and I mean, he's sort of saying it's chalk and cheese compared to sort of how the club was when he joined to where it is now.

And I think if he sort of stays to the end of his contract that he's just signed, he'll have been with the club for eight years.

superb stuff so there's been talk of Gareth Stewart who's obviously moved on to Blackburn Rovers I don't think the club have actually put anything out about it yet I'm sure they will at some point and then murmurings around Neil Moss as well although nothing's been confirmed the echo is going to be the first place to hear anything about that so make sure you do subscribe link is at the bottom there so what's your plan for the next couple of days because i know that obviously there's the first friendly on the friday there's going to be an open training session as well i think on the monday and then there's a match the following week as well you'll obviously be going to those will you be able to get any other access in terms of watching training sessions or is it quite heavily guarded

So it's a chance for players to almost start with a clean slate, isn't it?

Yeah, I think the club's transfer business beyond the striker and the centre-back, which were always going to be, those two were going to be the initial priorities.

Beyond those two positions, I think they've been...

The sort of first three weeks, so this week finishing and then the block in Austria, I think were going to be really, really important in terms of the transfer business for Marco Rosa to have a look at the wider squad, not just...

I mean, he'll know about Alex Scott, he'll know about Tyler Adams, he'll know about Ryan, Junior Krupe, all of these players who played lots of minutes last season.

But the players like Max Ahrens, Julian Arau, Julio Soler, for instance, as well, players like that who... who were out on loan or were sort of second choice and didn't get loads of minutes, these three weeks will be really important for Rosa to have a look at them and assess them and decide whether they're up to standard, whether they need to go out or whether they need to be sold or whether they can be sort of an important squad player.

Because I think that the goal is to have, I think, at least two...

no i think we predicted 13th 14th at the start of last season even with a couple of months to go i remember the nil nil at burnley away i was thinking oh that's probably us done but somehow we turn it around and we qualify for europe with a game to spare surely surely we've seen it before with nottingham forest with the premier league form can't stay that high can it but i i mean what would be your gauge of a successful season for bournemouth do you reckon