Jayden Powell

Striker - Chrudim
29 Feb 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jayden Powell

80 Edition

The Chrudim Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Martin Janáček asks to leave Chrudim

“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.

Boardroom

Chrudim close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Jayden Powell gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jayden Powell has just signed for Chrudim, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Chrudim

David Pavelka 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.

Transfer targets

Chrudim bid $91.0K for Marek Havlík

The offer went to Slovacko 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Chrudim

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Aleš Mandous

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

Match

Tomáš Smejkal the difference as Chrudim beat Sparta Prague B

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tomáš Smejkal. 1‑0 against Sparta Prague B, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

One of those days for Tomáš Smejkal

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nottingham Forest lose Nikola Milenković

56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

Rotherham United watching Ola Aina

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nottingham Forest have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

Sunderland tell Nottingham Forest: Fotis Ioannidis 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.

Squad

Dilane Bakwa pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Esapa Osong 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

Jayden Powell signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jayden Powell commits to Nottingham Forest for another 3 years.

Loan watch

Aaron Bott counts the days

“I watch every Nottingham Forest game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Newport County runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

Nikola Milenković knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nottingham Forest, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Ryan Yates is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Nottingham Forest has been clear about where Ryan Yates stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

53 Edition

The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Arnaud Kalimuendo asks to leave Nottingham Forest

“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.

Market

Nottingham Forest say no — this time

The offer from Reading for Nikola Milenković 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.

Market

Murillo attracts admirers

The name of Murillo has come up in conversations Nottingham Forest were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market

Xaver Schlager wants more than Nottingham Forest are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dominic Solanke

Nottingham Forest asked and Manchester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luca Netz

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luca Netz, and the manager let it.

Squad

Nottingham Forest are still strangers to each other

14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Loan watch

Tyler Bindon has seen enough of Milton Keynes Dons

“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 Nottingham Forest, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

A step back for Lucas Gourna-Douath at Nottingham Forest

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief