Filip Fredriksson

Central Defender - Harrogate Town
4 Jul 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Filip Fredriksson

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The Harrogate Town Post

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Harrogate Town boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Léo Schilliger hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Harrogate Town can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Alfie Cresswell due for a Harrogate Town medical

Everything agreed with Leeds United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Kayden Lucas will not be coming to Harrogate Town

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Newcastle United is saying, and nobody at Harrogate Town is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Aiden Marsh 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 Harrogate Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Jack Evans's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Cathal Heffernan 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 Harrogate Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

Filip Fredriksson 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.

Market

Harrogate Town and Yegor Baranov 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.

In brief

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Market

Sam Waller 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 Harrogate Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Ronaldo Herrera keeps the receipts

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tidiane Leye

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

A falling-out at Harrogate Town

Alex Stepien-Iwumene and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Aiden Marsh 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 Harrogate Town, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Looking ahead

Shawn McCoulsky faces his old club

Bromley next, and one man in the Harrogate Town dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

Tibério Cunha remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Harrogate Town would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market

The Tidiane Leye story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tidiane Leye signs something — a contract at Harrogate Town or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Market

Harrogate Town put Tidiane Leye up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Tidiane Leye may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief