The Mansfield Town Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mansfield Town make their move for Sydie Peck
$4.5M on the table at Sheffield United. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Shilow Tracey arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Shilow Tracey has, at Mansfield Town, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Mansfield Town go back to the board over Matthew Litherland
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.9M — a club that wants Matthew Litherland enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
George Abbott 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 Mansfield Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Kyle Joseph
Mansfield Town asked and Middlesbrough said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Deji Oshilaja signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Deji Oshilaja and Mansfield Town agree another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mansfield Town try to borrow Alex Cochrane
Birmingham have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Mansfield Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Moriah-Welsh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Mansfield Town and Tennai Watson
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- Market No place for Jordan Bowery in the plan
- Looking ahead Michael Smith faces his old club
- Market The clock runs on Nathan Moriah-Welsh's contract