Liam Oakes

Central Midfielder - Exeter City
28 Sep 2026
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The Exeter City Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

The numbers do not look good at Exeter City

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market31 Aug 2026

Charlie Cummins asks to leave Exeter City

“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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Frankie Phillips is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Exeter City

Ethan Brierley 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Peterborough United take the points off Exeter City

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Jack Fitzwater 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.

In brief

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The Exeter City Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Matthew Sorinola 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. Matthew Sorinola is living that version at Exeter City, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Josh Magennis, 36, rolls back the years — 7.82

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market17 Aug 2026

Johnly Yfeko attracts admirers

The name of Johnly Yfeko has come up in conversations Exeter City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Exeter City

Ethan Brierley 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Josh Magennis the difference as Exeter City beat Rotherham United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Josh Magennis. 1‑0 against Rotherham United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market17 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Exeter City and Matthew Sorinola

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Exeter City, another week without a signature from Matthew Sorinola.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Liam Oakes conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Bromley will make the call about Liam Oakes this week. Exeter City have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad17 Aug 2026

5 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

No investment in the facilities at Exeter City

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

In brief