Taite Holtam

Goalkeeper - Stockport County
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149 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad4 Jun 2029

The knee: Jacob Johnson out for 22 days

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

Boardroom4 Jun 2029

Stockport County put Edward Pearson on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market4 Jun 2029

Fabrizio Cavegn 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 Stockport County can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Jun 2029

Black Aces come back empty-handed

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

Market4 Jun 2029

Chris Sze is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stockport County is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Tempers go at Stockport County

Fabrizio Cavegn was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout4 Jun 2029

Jid Okeke frozen out at Stockport County

This is not rotation. Jid Okeke has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Stockport County is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets4 Jun 2029

Door shut on Ousmane Camara

Stockport County asked and Newcastle United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Louis Page 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.

In brief

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116 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Oct 2028

Timothy Simmons damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market16 Oct 2028

Chris Sze 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 Stockport County can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Brad Hills frozen out at Stockport County

This is not rotation. Brad Hills has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Stockport County is pretending otherwise.

Market16 Oct 2028

Only the photograph left for Ben Osborn

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ben Osborn will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stockport County the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Stockport County

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

Squad16 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Stockport County

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Louis Page was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Joe White

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

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Fabrizio Cavegn knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fabrizio Cavegn trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Malik Mothersille has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Stockport County will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

97 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Stockport County agree $12.6M for Cameron Archer

The clubs have shaken hands with Southampton; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad5 Jun 2028

The knee: Ben Buckley out for 34 days

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

Market5 Jun 2028

Adama Sidibeh asks to leave Stockport County

“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 targets5 Jun 2028

Stockport County make their move for Jordan Gibson

$410.0K on the table at Northampton Town. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Taite Holtam gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Taite Holtam has just signed for Stockport County, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Adama Sidibeh 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 Stockport County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market5 Jun 2028

OFK Beograd join the queue for Enzo Faty

Add another name to the list: OFK Beograd have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Enzo Faty. The answer from Stockport County has not changed — yet.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Page 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.

The dugout5 Jun 2028

When it matters, Malik Mothersille plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief