Theo Avery

Goalkeeper - Salford City
28 Sep 2026
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Overview Personal Contract News 3 Transfers Relations Events 29 Awards 2 Matches History

Marked for Theo Avery

4 Edition

The Northampton Town Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 Aug 2026

James Dadge puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Northampton Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Cundo

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Elliott List 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 Northampton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market24 Aug 2026

Theo Avery moves on

Salford City pay $470.0K, 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A move Billy Blacker 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. Billy Blacker is living that version at Northampton Town, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Taylor Richards 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Billy Blacker stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Billy Blacker and Northampton Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market24 Aug 2026

A long bet from Northampton Town on Billy Blacker

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

Market24 Aug 2026

Northampton Town buy the years ahead of Marley Wilson

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad24 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabio Borini

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Dru Yearwood gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Dru Yearwood has just signed for Salford City, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Fabio Borini, 35, rolls back the years — 8.25

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.25 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Kadeem Harris

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market24 Aug 2026

Loick Ayina 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 Salford City can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Dru Yearwood 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Salford City come up short against Bromley

Bromley left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Alfie Dorrington 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Salford City sign Theo Avery, one for the future

Theo Avery is 20, and Salford City 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Northampton Town Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market17 Aug 2026

Lincoln City come back empty-handed

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Northampton Town

Elliott List 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Northampton Town

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Armando Shashoua runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market17 Aug 2026

Jonathan Dixon steps up from the Northampton Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Dixon has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market17 Aug 2026

Eyes on Theo Avery again

The phone has started ringing about Theo Avery again, and this time the name on the line is Salford City. Northampton Town are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match15 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Northampton Town against Mansfield Town

0‑1 to Mansfield Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad17 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Northampton Town are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Conor McCarthy

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

In brief