Erick Torres

Defensive Midfielder - Barnet
13 Aug 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Erick Torres

104 Edition

The Barnet Herald

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

75 days out for Dennis Adeniran after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barnet will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Joe Rye 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 Barnet can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Freddy Bernal turns down Barnet

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Chelsea keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Barnet bid $500.0K for Malik Mothersille

The offer went to Stockport County this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Barnet rebuffed over Rhys Healey

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stoke City have kept their man, and Barnet go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barnet

Anthony Hartigan 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.

Squad

Alex Gríger 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Erick Torres

“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.

Market

The Kabongo Tshimanga question follows Barnet around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kabongo Tshimanga’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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The Barnet Herald

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Barnet

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

The dugout

Jack Barrett 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.

Squad

Erick Torres has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Player ratings

Myles Kenlock shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nathan Phillips on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Jake Eastwood

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Match

No goals between Barnet and Rotherham United

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Rotherham United will be the happier side with the point.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Kieron Morris

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Oldham Athletic in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

Kabongo Tshimanga knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barnet, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief