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158 Edition

The Notts County Courier

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Spencer Sutton keeps the receipts

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

Market

Only the photograph left for Pedro Blanco

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

Market

Alexandre Nkono puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Notts County, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Samir Gasanov signs for Gillingham while still at Notts County

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Samir Gasanov has agreed terms with Gillingham for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

The step up is real for Jorge Castro

At 18 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Adriel Walker

Notts County asked and Bromley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Fulham expected to open talks for Matthew Dennis

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Notts County will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad

Kaine Kesler Hayden 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.

Squad

A late step up for Artem Yamangulov

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

Back issues
140 Edition

The Notts County Courier

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

James Sanderson breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Matthew Dennis asks to leave Notts 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.

Match

8 unbeaten for Notts County

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Notts County did not have in the autumn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jesse Debrah

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

Squad

Tempers go at Notts County

Eduardo Armenta 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Notts County

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kaine Kesler Hayden was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ollie Tanner

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Doncaster Rovers snatch it back from Notts County

A goal on 90 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Nicolás Castagno

A mark of 7.94, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief