Julián Araujo

Araujo covers ground the way a winger does, timing his overlapping run so the ball arrives just as he reaches the byline rather than a stride too early. That habit made him a Gold Cup winner with Mexico and a regular starter well before his twenty-first birthday, because coaches trust a full back who offers width without needing to be told twice. He recovers just as quickly the other way, which stops the attacking instinct turning into an open lane for the opposition winger.

The tension with a player like this is always positioning, because a full back who lives fifteen yards further forward than his centre backs occasionally gets caught upfield when the ball turns over. Mexico have persisted with him through exactly that kind of criticism. Bournemouth fans will spend the season deciding whether the attacking threat outweighs the moments defending starts a beat too late.