Bruno Salgado

Goalkeeper - Cheltenham Town
2 May 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bruno Salgado

36 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kaide Gordon

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Andreas Weimann is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.43 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Vintage Andreas Weimann — 8.13

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.13, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad

Liam Grimshaw stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Liam Grimshaw and Cheltenham Town agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andreas Weimann 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Bruno Salgado

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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Cheltenham Town

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Cheltenham Town did not have in the autumn.

Match

The run is over for Cheltenham Town

4 matches without defeat, and then Bromley. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Market

No place for Ben Stevenson in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ben Stevenson has his answer from Cheltenham Town; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

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The Cheltenham Town Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Kristian Lonebu at 21 — 7.72

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kristian Lonebu did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Kaide Gordon

18 goals and a season average of 7.25 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

David Cornell stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” David Cornell and Cheltenham Town agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andreas Weimann 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Bruno Salgado is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

Cheltenham Town get the job done against Chesterfield

A 2‑1 win over Chesterfield, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Kaide Gordon

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

David Cornell 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 ratings

Andreas Weimann 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.

In brief