Ryan Carr

Right Back - Free Agent
27 Dec 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ryan Carr

153 Edition

The Newport County Courier

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lewis Jamieson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Newport County can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Janoi Donacien is on his way

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

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Rúben Rodrigues

Newport County and Bolton Wanderers have settled on $1.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Newport County

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Newport County is running low.

The dugout

Charlie Parks says Newport County went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

The step up is real for Rhys Chadwick

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A falling-out at Newport County

Hayden Matthews and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Stevenage are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Newport County will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Milton Keynes Dons tell Newport County: Federico Serra 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.

In brief

Back issues
133 Edition

The Newport County Courier

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

No mercy from Newport County

Harrogate Town will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Newport County were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market

Newport County turn down Akhmat Grozny for Rhys Chadwick

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Janoi Donacien is on his way

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

Player ratings

Age has not caught Jordan Graham yet — 8.17

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.17 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Transfer targets

Milan Smit stays at Stoke City as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Newport County will try again when the window opens; Stoke City may not be selling by then.

Market

Ryan Carr puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Newport County, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

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Boardroom

Newport County to lose Janoi Donacien for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Janoi Donacien has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Words exchanged at Newport County

Hayden Matthews and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief