Max Johnston

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52 Edition

The Derby County Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Derby County

Sondre Langås was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad26 Jul 2027

No hiding place for Oscar Fraulo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oscar Fraulo, and the manager let it.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Max Johnston knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Max Johnston trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

Back issues
36 Edition

The Derby County Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market5 Apr 2027

Craig Forsyth is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Derby County is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market5 Apr 2027

Jacob Widell Zetterström wants more than Derby County are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Match3 Apr 2027

4 matches without a win for Derby County

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Derby County are no longer polite ones.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Derby County

Lucas Bergvall was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Sondre Langås is carrying Derby County

9 goals and a season average of 7.54. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad5 Apr 2027

Jacob Widell Zetterström gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

Max Johnston runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings5 Apr 2027

Bogdan Popov keeps on missing

Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Match3 Apr 2027

Derby County share the spoils with Cardiff City

A 1‑1 draw with Cardiff City leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

22 Edition

The Derby County Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

A defender's afternoon for Max Johnston

Defensive actions: 259. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Nothing got past Lucas Bergvall

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 41 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Ben Brereton Díaz: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Derby County have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad28 Dec 2026

A one-man rearguard from Jacob Widell Zetterström

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Lucas Bergvall is the real thing at 20

A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Derby County know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Nothing got past Matt Clarke

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 24 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Derby County

Sam Szmodics was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match26 Dec 2026

Derby County find a way past Preston

Preston made Derby County work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

A masterclass from Patrick Agyemang

Marked 8.44 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief