Kamarni Ryan

Right Midfielder - Burton Albion
15 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Kamarni Ryan

7 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cruel end for Reading as Burton Albion pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Burton Albion scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market

Alex Bannon 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 Burton Albion can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

One of their own: Charlie Webster

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Connor Barratt deal

Burton Albion ran out of time with Barnsley. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Match

Charlie Webster sends Burton Albion past Reading

It finished 1‑0, and it was Charlie Webster’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Burton Albion.

Player ratings

Charlie Webster in the eights

A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

A falling-out at Burton Albion

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

Player ratings

Nothing got past Will Collar

16 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Robert Watson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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The Burton Albion Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Connor Barratt

Burton Albion and Barnsley have settled on $240.0K. 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.

Market

Kyran Lofthouse 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 Burton Albion can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Burton Albion close the window on a squad of their own making

9 in and 8 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Rhys Chadwick deal

Burton Albion ran out of time with Leeds United. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

Kamarni Ryan 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 Burton Albion this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Charlie Webster

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tom Olyott stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tom Olyott and Burton Albion agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Still no ink between Burton Albion and Liam Mandeville

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Burton Albion, another week without a signature from Liam Mandeville.

Squad

A step back for Ciaran Gilligan at Burton Albion

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

5 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Burton Albion taken apart

0‑3 to Wigan Athletic, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Charlie Webster 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 Burton Albion can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.4M for Rhys Chadwick

Burton Albion have gone to Leeds United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mark Assinor

Burton Albion asked and LNZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Burton Albion

Will Collar 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.

Squad

Kamarni Ryan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kamarni Ryan and Burton Albion agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ciaran Gilligan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ciaran Gilligan, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Inquest at Burton Albion

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Armando Shashoua

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

4 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mark O'Mahony, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

A move Kamarni Ryan would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kamarni Ryan is living that version at Burton Albion, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Bade Aluko turns down Burton Albion

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Leicester City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mohamed Touré

Burton Albion asked and Norwich City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mark O'Mahony

At 21 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.

Match

Mark O'Mahony the difference as Burton Albion beat Barnsley

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mark O'Mahony. 1‑0 against Barnsley, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Kamarni Ryan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kamarni Ryan commits to Burton Albion for another 4 years.

Market

Burton Albion sign Kamarni Ryan, one for the future

Kamarni Ryan is 20, and Burton Albion have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Robert Watson: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief