Max Hudson

Goalkeeper - Sheffield
17 Sep 2028
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Marked for Max Hudson

109 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Aug 2028

Rodrigo Borges breaks a bone — 37 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 37 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market28 Aug 2028

Sheffield sign Cathal McCarthy for $5.6M

The paperwork is done: Cathal McCarthy joins from Hull City in a deal worth $5.6M. Now comes the harder part.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Max Hudson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Max Lowe in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sheffield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Max Lowe has improved at 31, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Loan watch28 Aug 2028

Will Grainger wants to come home

“I did not go to Bristol City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sheffield and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
104 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market24 Jul 2028

Only the photograph left for Mackenzie Maltby

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mackenzie Maltby will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sheffield the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Real improvement from Max Hudson at Sheffield

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Max Hudson is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad24 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Sheffield

Eli Junior Kroupi 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.

In brief

98 Edition

The Manchester City Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market12 Jun 2028

Manchester City get their man

The chase for Murillo ended with $64.2M changing hands and Nottingham Forest out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Match12 Jun 2028

Manchester City refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 68 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Murillo gets the move he always wanted

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

Squad12 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Manchester City

Phil Foden 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.

Market12 Jun 2028

Tomas Galvez has one foot out of the door

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

Market12 Jun 2028

Wolverhampton watching Savinho

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

Squad12 Jun 2028

Rúben Dias 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.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Peter Evans is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market12 Jun 2028

Max Hudson moves on

Sheffield pay $510.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

  • The terraces The spotlight tightens on Murillo
  • Boardroom The Manchester City production line keeps running
  • Boardroom The board put their hand in their pocket
98 Edition

The Sheffield Herald

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Jun 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jamal Lowe

49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sheffield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad12 Jun 2028

A fracture rules Charlie McNeill out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sheffield will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market12 Jun 2028

Sheffield say no — this time

The offer from Reading for Louie Barry 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.

Market12 Jun 2028

Illan Meslier is a Sheffield player

The fee is $9.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Everton drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market12 Jun 2028

Connal Trueman has one foot out of the door

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

Squad12 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Sheffield

Eli Junior Kroupi 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.

In brief