Pedro Nzau

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Newport County
31 Oct 2032
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325 Edition

The Newport County Courier

18 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad18 Oct 2032

Matheus Lemos damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market18 Oct 2032

Max Thompson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Newport County is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom18 Oct 2032

The numbers do not look good at Newport County

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market18 Oct 2032

Spencer Sutton asks to leave Newport County

“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.

Squad18 Oct 2032

Steven Sessegnon 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 Newport County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match16 Oct 2032

Newport County cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad18 Oct 2032

Pedro Nzau 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.

Squad18 Oct 2032

Jack Senior 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.

Player ratings18 Oct 2032

Nobody could get near Marco Forapani

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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311 Edition

The Newport County Courier

12 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Jul 2032

Matheus Lemos damages knee ligaments — 136 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 136 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces12 Jul 2032

The mood at Newport County has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market12 Jul 2032

Only the photograph left for Anthony Glennon

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anthony Glennon will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newport County the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Pedro Nzau is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Steven Sessegnon 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 Newport County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Jul 2032

Words at Newport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Forapani 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.

In brief

306 Edition

The Newport County Courier

7 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom7 Jun 2032

Newport County go down

It is arithmetic now, and the arithmetic is done. A summer of hard questions starts early at Newport County, and next season's fixture list reads very differently.

Market7 Jun 2032

West Bromwich Albion come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Newport County did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad7 Jun 2032

A move Pedro Nzau would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Pedro Nzau is living that version at Newport County, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market7 Jun 2032

James Bolton is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Newport County is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom7 Jun 2032

Newport County to lose Anthony Glennon for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Anthony Glennon has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad7 Jun 2032

Tempers go at Newport County

Steven Sessegnon 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.

Squad7 Jun 2032

Kimarni Smith signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kimarni Smith commits to Newport County for another 2 years.

Squad7 Jun 2032

Words at Newport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Senior 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.

Boardroom7 Jun 2032

Wages eat 154% of everything Newport County earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief