Jacob Maher

Central Midfielder - Stockport County
24 Aug 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jacob Maher

234 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

20 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Abdoul Ouattara 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 The request is on a desk at Stockport County, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Stockport County say no — this time

The offer from Newport County for Corey Addai 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.

Transfer targets

Medical ends the Dominic James deal

Everything was agreed with Crewe Alexandra and then the doctor spoke. Stockport County have walked away from a signing on the advice of somebody who never saw him play, which is how it is supposed to work.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Patson Daka

Stockport County asked and AFC Wimbledon 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

4 matches without a win for Stockport County

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Stockport County are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom

Stockport County to lose Corey Addai for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Corey Addai 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.

Squad

Abdoul Ouattara 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 Stockport County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Stockport County come up short against Wrexham

Wrexham left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at Stockport County

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

In brief

  • The dugout Elvis Bwomono gets it from the manager
  • Player ratings Jacob Maher did the work nobody counts — 6.73
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
Back issues
195 Edition

The Stockport County Herald

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Mariano Bracamonte

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

Squad

Tempers go at Stockport County

Oliver Norwood 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.

Match

Stockport County make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

Stockport County see off Lincoln City

Three points for Stockport County, 1‑0 the final word against Lincoln City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Stockport County training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Salischiker Rucci 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.

Player ratings

Odin Bailey stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.96 on the card, and the Stockport County support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Robert Bennett, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

Louis Appéré 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.

The dugout

Oliver Norwood knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Oliver Norwood trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief