The Preston Chronicle
Squad23 Aug 2027
The knee: Marshall Longson out for 16 days
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Preston lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Thierry Small was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 41. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Rio Ngumoha keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Preston may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
No deal for Kyrell Wilson at that price
Preston offered $8.1M; Swansea City said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market23 Aug 2027
Andrew Moran is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Preston is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Lee Bonis
Preston asked and Chesterfield said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Preston
Daniel Iversen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Michael Ayodele at Preston
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Ayodele is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Daniel Iversen has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at Preston
- Market Nicholas Jones steps up from the Preston academy
- Market Preston promote Edward Green from within