The Port Vale Herald
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Port Vale bid $1.5M for Modou Faal
The offer went to Wrexham 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erik Sviatchenko stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Erik Sviatchenko and Port Vale agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Port Vale
Erik Sviatchenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Port Vale are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Port Vale ask about Pau Ferrer
A loan enquiry to Ponferradina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Ashall-Cody 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Port Vale and Onel Hernández 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.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
George Hall knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and George Hall trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Ruari Paton in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Ruari Paton has his answer from Port Vale; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Port Vale has picked up the phone to George Byers
- Market Mitch Clark leaves for nothing