The Derby County Herald
Market14 Sep 2026
Jacob Widell Zetterström 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 Derby County can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Sep 2026
Bristol City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Derby County did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Stoke City deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Derry Murkin reports back to Derby County with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ryan Hedges runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Cardiff City tell Derby County: Alex Robertson 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Josh Dasilva falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
One of those days for Sam Szmodics
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.21, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Oscar Fraulo 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Derby County count the cost of losing Jaydan Davidson
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Match Derby County and Millwall take a point apiece
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Eiran Cashin
- The dugout Daniel Russell: “We have to be better”