The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 13 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Crewe Alexandra until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market1 Feb 2027
Josh March’s move to Wigan Athletic falls through
The deal that would have taken Josh March to Wigan Athletic has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Crewe Alexandra with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match30 Jan 2027
8 unbeaten for Crewe Alexandra
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Crewe Alexandra did not have in the autumn.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Billy Gee gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Billy Gee has just signed for Crewe Alexandra, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Darragh Lenihan in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Jan 2027
Crewe Alexandra make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Brentford tell Crewe Alexandra: Ellery Balcombe is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Valero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Mickey Demetriou 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.
In brief
- Squad Darragh Lenihan has outgrown this division
- Transfer targets A loan move for Daniel Bentley is in the works
- Transfer targets Crewe Alexandra ask about Melker Ellborg