Noah Cooper

Goalkeeper - Crawley Town
5 Oct 2027
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Marked for Noah Cooper

47 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Jun 2027

The knee: Janoi Donacien out for 119 days

119 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Crawley Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market21 Jun 2027

Damián Martínez asks to leave Crawley Town

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Crawley Town make their move for Darlin Yongwa

$2.0M on the table at Norwich City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market21 Jun 2027

Paik Seung-Ho is a Crawley Town player

The fee is $1.7M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Birmingham drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad21 Jun 2027

The step up is real for Ken Aboh

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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Damián Martínez wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Crawley Town can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market21 Jun 2027

Crawley Town sign Noah Cooper for $280.0K

The paperwork is done: Noah Cooper joins from Stoke City in a deal worth $280.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad21 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Crawley Town

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

Market21 Jun 2027

Danilo Orsi moves on

Gillingham pay $240.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Stoke City Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Jun 2027

The knee: Julani Archibald out for 84 days

84 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stoke City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market21 Jun 2027

Grimsby Town come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Stoke City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Too dear: Stoke City walk away from Giorgi Chakvetadze

$2.7M was the most the club would pay and Watford were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market21 Jun 2027

Nathan Collins wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Will Mannion is a medical away from Stoke City

The deal with Charlton Athletic is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Stoke City

Jacob Chapman 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.

Market21 Jun 2027

Stoke City sell Noah Cooper for $280.0K

Noah Cooper has left for Crawley Town in a $280.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets21 Jun 2027

Stoke City rebuffed over Yahia Fofana

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leeds United have kept their man, and Stoke City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market21 Jun 2027

A long bet from Stoke City on Matthew Young

He is 20, and nobody at Stoke City signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief

46 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Janoi Donacien

126 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Crawley Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market14 Jun 2027

Terms done: Danilo Orsi is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Gillingham waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Crawley Town is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

$1.7M settles it between the clubs for Paik Seung-Ho

Birmingham have accepted the money. What Crawley Town do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market14 Jun 2027

Urartu come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Crawley Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market14 Jun 2027

Danilo Orsi asks to leave Crawley Town

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

The paperwork begins on Noah Cooper

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Crawley Town have done the hard part with Stoke City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad14 Jun 2027

The step up is real for Cruz Ibeh

At 19 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.

Boardroom14 Jun 2027

Crawley Town go back to the board over James Shea

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $70.1K — a club that wants James Shea enough to be asked twice.

Market14 Jun 2027

Crawley Town sign Ken Aboh for $150.0K

The paperwork is done: Ken Aboh joins from Norwich City in a deal worth $150.0K. Now comes the harder part.

In brief