How Eli Junior Kroupi became Bournemouth’s next jewel … and a World Cup bolter
French teenager has racked up numbers this season that put him on a par with Erling Haaland and Lamine Yamal Bournemouth have unearthed another diamond in Eli Junior Kroupi. Staff at the club consider
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