Fraser Harper

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
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Marked for Fraser Harper

127 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 Jan 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lewis Bate

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

Match1 Jan 2029

Stockport County are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 43 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market1 Jan 2029

Stockport County say no — this time

The offer from Juventud for Benoný Breki Andrésson was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad1 Jan 2029

Nathan Baxter is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Stockport County will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Market1 Jan 2029

Fraser Harper 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.

Match30 Dec 2028

Stockport County make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Stockport County have 4 straight wins of it.

Market1 Jan 2029

Tom Cairney wants more than Stockport County are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

The dugout1 Jan 2029

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Squad1 Jan 2029

Words exchanged at Stockport County

Kyle Wootton 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.

In brief

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94 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 May 2028

Words exchanged at Stockport County

Kyle Wootton 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.

Squad15 May 2028

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tom Cairney 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.

Match13 May 2028

Stockport County find a way past Swansea City

Swansea City made Stockport County work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings15 May 2028

One of those days for Kyle Wootton

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout15 May 2028

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Mark Moore, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout15 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Corey Addai

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout15 May 2028

Malik Mothersille gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Malik Mothersille is on it.

Squad15 May 2028

The formation has left Fraser Harper behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Stockport County will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market15 May 2028

The Lewis Bate story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lewis Bate signs something — a contract at Stockport County or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

93 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market8 May 2028

Odin Bailey 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.

Squad8 May 2028

The season belongs to Ethan Pye

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Stockport County have had the benefit of it.

Market8 May 2028

Only the photograph left for Ben Hinchliffe

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

Match6 May 2028

No end in sight to Stockport County's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stockport County has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings8 May 2028

Malik Mothersille beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad8 May 2028

Words exchanged at Stockport County

Lewis Bate 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.

Match6 May 2028

Stockport County cannot find the net

4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad8 May 2028

The golden glove goes to Nathan Baxter

24 clean sheets across a season, and the one award on the pitch nobody else is eligible for. Most keepers get through a whole career without a year like it.

Squad8 May 2028

A move Fraser Harper 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. Fraser Harper is living that version at Stockport County, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ethan Pye takes the honours
  • The dugout Joe Sbarra gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict