The Exeter City Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Tudor Mendel-Idowu 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. Tudor Mendel-Idowu is living that version at Exeter City, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Will Murdock will not be coming to Exeter City
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Manchester United is saying, and nobody at Exeter City is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Exeter City
Cristhian Medina 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Joseph Opoku
Exeter City asked and Swansea 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Exeter City and Tudor Mendel-Idowu are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 new faces, and Exeter City 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
No place for Kieran Wilson in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kieran Wilson has his answer from Exeter City; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Cristhian Medina
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Exeter City has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Jack Fitzwater's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
- The dugout Jake Doyle-Hayes knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Tudor Mendel-Idowu joins Exeter City on a free
- Looking ahead Exeter City host Rotherham United