The Exeter City Courier
Squad2 Jun 2031
The knee: Taye Ashby-Hammond out for 34 days
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Exeter City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom2 Jun 2031
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Exeter City can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market2 Jun 2031
Mateo Carmona 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 The request is on a desk at Exeter City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market2 Jun 2031
Zico Asare is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Exeter City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom2 Jun 2031
Zico Asare signs for Milton Keynes Dons while still at Exeter City
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Zico Asare has agreed terms with Milton Keynes Dons for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad2 Jun 2031
A falling-out at Exeter City
Duván Riascos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dino Putsén 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.
Transfer targets2 Jun 2031
Blackpool tell Exeter City: Sam Nombe 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.
Market2 Jun 2031
Oldham Athletic join the queue for Jacob Roberts
Add another name to the list: Oldham Athletic have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jacob Roberts. The answer from Exeter City has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Squad Marshall Murray out for 23 days
- Market Exeter City and Taye Ashby-Hammond are talking past each other
- Transfer targets Exeter City ask about Harry Hughes