The Walsall Chronicle
Market1 Feb 2027
Terms done: Elicha Ahui is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Mansfield Town waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Walsall is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match30 Jan 2027
Walsall cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Walsall until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Lucas Tabó arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Lucas Tabó has, at Walsall, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Walsall
Joe Lewis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Walsall training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Charlie Crew 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.
Player ratings1 Feb 2027
Alfie Chang beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Cittadella tell Walsall: Francesco D'Alessio is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
Matteo Soncin has seen enough of Ternana
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Walsall, and 0 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- Match Walsall find a way past Cambridge United
- Squad Walsall lose Oliver Turner
- Player ratings Aaron Pressley stands above it all