Jacob Vickers

Central Defender - Barnsley
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97 Edition

The Barnsley Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market5 Jun 2028

Barnsley say no — this time

The offer from Milton Keynes Dons for Max Watters 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.

Market5 Jun 2028

Max Sanders has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Barnsley they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Barnsley make their move for Christian Walton

$3.2M on the table at Ipswich Town. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

The dugout5 Jun 2028

Jacob Vickers keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barnsley may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

Barnsley bid $1.4M for Ryan Yates

The offer went to Nottingham Forest 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.

Squad5 Jun 2028

Reyes Cleary stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Reyes Cleary and Barnsley agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets5 Jun 2028

An offer of $330.0K for T-Jay Parfitt

Barnsley have gone to Cardiff City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market5 Jun 2028

Exeter City are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Barnsley will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market5 Jun 2028

Talks stall between Barnsley and Max Watters

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
72 Edition

The Barnsley Gazette

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match7 Dec 2027

The cup run ends for Barnsley

1‑4 against Arsenal, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

The terraces13 Dec 2027

A cup hiding at Arsenal leaves Barnsley explaining themselves

1-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

Charlie Setford keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Barnsley may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Jacob Vickers pops up at the right end — 7.18

7.18, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad13 Dec 2027

The step up is real for Chrysolite Ogbu

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Words at Barnsley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Obafemi 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.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Max Watters

“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.

Match11 Dec 2027

Cauley Woodrow the difference as Barnsley beat Cambridge United

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

Boardroom13 Dec 2027

Doors closed at Barnsley

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief

66 Edition

The Barnsley Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Nov 2027

Charlie Setford stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Ajay Matthews: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Barnsley have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match30 Oct 2027

Whatever happens, Barnsley do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Words exchanged at Barnsley

Jack Robinson 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.

The terraces1 Nov 2027

One of their own: Justin Bengui Joao

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Cauley Woodrow in the eights

A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout1 Nov 2027

Layton Stewart 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.

Market1 Nov 2027

Still no ink between Barnsley and Max Watters

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

Loan watch1 Nov 2027

Jonathan Bland has seen enough of Crystal Palace

“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 Barnsley, and 4 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief