Valentino Cozza

Central Midfielder - Northampton Town
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Marked for Valentino Cozza

57 Edition

The Northampton Town Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market30 Aug 2027

Armando Shashoua 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 The request is on a desk at Northampton Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Northampton Town

Louie Bradbury 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Northampton Town

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

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Ross Fitzsimons 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.

Match28 Aug 2027

A bad afternoon for Northampton Town against Chesterfield

0‑1 to Chesterfield, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Thomas Bailey answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Josh Stokes wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Northampton Town will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Somebody else is better right now than Ross Fitzsimons

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Valentino Cozza wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Northampton Town can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

Back issues
53 Edition

The Northampton Town Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The interim tag comes off Thomas Bailey

Northampton Town interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Thomas Bailey keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Market2 Aug 2027

Armando Shashoua 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 Northampton Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Northampton Town

Louie Bradbury 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words at Northampton Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Derensili Sanches Fernandes 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.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Northampton Town rebuffed over Divine Mukasa

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

Market2 Aug 2027

Northampton Town and Luther James-Wildin are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Northampton Town ask about Lewis Koumas

A loan enquiry to Liverpool: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Elliott List 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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Valentino Cozza slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Valentino Cozza is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

In brief