Scott's withdrawal is a problem for two teams

The midfielder picked up the problem during England's 7-0 win over Croatia, and he's now out of Thomas Tuchel's squad for the upcoming fixtures. BBC Sport describes it as a thigh injury and reports he could be out for up to eight weeks. Sky Sports specifies a tendon injury and says he could miss "several weeks". Either way, Scott isn't playing football for a while.

For England, it's a squad depth issue rather than a crisis. Losing a midfielder mid-window is never ideal, but Tuchel has options and these are international breaks, not a run of fixtures that demands Scott specifically. The bigger concern is the calendar: whichever version of the injury is right, he's looking at missing time that overlaps with Bournemouth's next run of Premier League games.

Why Bournemouth will feel this more

Andoni Iraola's side sit 17th in the Premier League after five games, with three points from three draws and two defeats and a goal difference of minus two. That's a team that needs its midfield to work, not one with the luxury of rotating a key player out for two months. Scott has been one of Bournemouth's most reliable midfield options this season, and that's exactly the kind of player a side in this league position can't easily replace from within.

Whatever Iraola does in midfield over the next several weeks, it'll be with what's already in the building.

The uncertainty that matters

The discrepancy between eight weeks and "several" weeks isn't just a reporting quirk, it changes the planning entirely. Eight weeks takes Scott out of a meaningful chunk of the season and potentially the next England camp too. A shorter spell is an inconvenience. Until Bournemouth or the player's camp clarifies the exact nature of the injury, the club is stuck planning for the worse-case version while hoping for the better one.

Either way, a midfielder in form going missing for any length of time, at a club sitting 17th with a goal difference already in the red, is not news Iraola wanted during this international break.