Player Profile

Maturing talent is showing his ability

by
The LeaguePaper Team
7 November 2021

PLAYER PROFILE
By Chris Dunlavy

PHILIPIP BILLING
BOURNEMOUTH MIDFIELDER

INFLUENTIAL: Philip Billing has become a key man for Scott Parker’s Cherries
PICTURE: Alamy

PHILIP Billing, Bournemouth’s towering central midfielder, has always been an enigmatic footballer.
Six foot six but middling in the air. Physically imposing but unable to dominate a midfield. Gangly and awkward yet athletic, skilful and elusive.
So talented was Billing as a teenager that Huddersfield Town altered their entire scouting and academy structure to enable the discovery of more players in his mou...

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