David Brooks

Brooks operates from the right but spends most of his time drifting inside, looking to receive between the lines where a marker has to choose whether to follow him and open space out wide. His touch lets him take the ball under pressure and turn away from a challenge that would stop most wingers dead, and his final pass regularly finds a runner that defenders had stopped tracking. It is a subtler kind of threat than pace down the line, built on timing rather than speed.

What makes his story worth following is everything he has come back from away from the pitch, setbacks that would have ended most careers outright. He returned and still produces moments of real quality when fully fit. The question Bournemouth fans keep asking is whether his body allows him a full uninterrupted season rather than another one built around comebacks.