Kaion Lisbie

Right Midfielder - Colchester United
5 Jul 2029
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Marked for Kaion Lisbie

144 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match28 Apr 2029

Colchester United tear Harrogate Town apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Harrogate Town, and it could have been more.

Match30 Apr 2029

Full time on the season at Colchester United

Position 15 on 61 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Kaion Lisbie, 21, steals the show — 7.88

Marked 7.88 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad30 Apr 2029

A falling-out at Colchester United

Jack Tucker and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match28 Apr 2029

Colchester United keep winning on the road

4 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match24 Apr 2029

Fleetwood Town take the points off Colchester United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The terraces30 Apr 2029

One of their own: Nathan Dlamini

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Ninety minutes of Matty Jacob at his very best

Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Colchester United.

Player ratings30 Apr 2029

Jack Tucker in the eights

A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

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The Colchester United Herald

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad13 Nov 2028

A falling-out at Colchester United

Jack Tucker and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match11 Nov 2028

Mansfield Town take the points off Colchester United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Mofe Jemide 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.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Noah Franke is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Nathan Morris answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad13 Nov 2028

A row about effort at Colchester United

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

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Jack Tucker asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad13 Nov 2028

Bookings catch up with Mofe Jemide

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Colchester United will feel it on Saturday.

The dugout13 Nov 2028

Colchester United keep their word to Kaion Lisbie

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

In brief

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The Colchester United Herald

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrew Fisher

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

Squad14 Aug 2028

61 days out for Dionicio Escalante after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colchester United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Tottenham tell Colchester United: Kota Takai 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.

Market14 Aug 2028

Kaion Lisbie 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 Colchester United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

Colchester United go back to the board over Chinonso Chibueze

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $207.0K — a club that wants Chinonso Chibueze enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Colchester United make their move for Chinonso Chibueze

$190.0K on the table at Bromley. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Colchester United

Benji Casey 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.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Dionicio Escalante frozen out at Colchester United

This is not rotation. Dionicio Escalante has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Colchester United is pretending otherwise.

Player ratings14 Aug 2028

Owura Edwards runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

95 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad22 May 2028

Dionicio Escalante breaks a bone — 155 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 155 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market22 May 2028

Mateo Cardona 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 Colchester United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad22 May 2028

Tempers go at Colchester United

Jack Tucker 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Dionicio Escalante frozen out at Colchester United

This is not rotation. Dionicio Escalante has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Colchester United is pretending otherwise.

Squad22 May 2028

The decline has begun for Noah Franke

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Colchester United is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Squad22 May 2028

Jaden Williams 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.

Market22 May 2028

Ben Perry runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Colchester United money.

The dugout22 May 2028

Adrian Akande 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 Colchester United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout22 May 2028

Harrison Minturn gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Harrison Minturn is on it.

In brief

54 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Aug 2027

16 days out for Kaion Lisbie after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Colchester United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Colchester United rebuffed over Michael Golding

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leicester City have kept their man, and Colchester United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Colchester United

Alberto Lunghi 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.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

Colchester United bid $11.0K for Ollie Clarke

The offer went to Swindon Town this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market9 Aug 2027

Oldham Athletic watching Matt Macey

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

Squad9 Aug 2027

Colchester United lose Freddie Ingram

26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Makise Evans signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Makise Evans and Colchester United agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets9 Aug 2027

A loan move for Aaron Bott is in the works

Colchester United have made the call to Nottingham Forest. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Max Jolliffe

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Jolliffe, and the manager let it.

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