Jonathan Haftom

Central Defender - Bromley U18
23 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Haftom

6 Edition

The Bromley Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 18 signed and 16 gone

That is the business done at Bromley until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bromley

Zak Sturge 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.

Squad

Zak Sturge has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Bromley know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad

A step back for Mickel Miller at Bromley

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Squad

Marcin Wodecki stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcin Wodecki and Bromley agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Still no ink between Bromley and Liam Mandeville

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bromley, another week without a signature from Liam Mandeville.

Market

Bromley bring in an old head

Marcin Wodecki is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

The dugout

Jonathan Haftom 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.

Market

Bromley bring in Zak Sturge on loan

A season-long audition: Millwall still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Bromley's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Bromley Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Jordon Ibe 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. Jordon Ibe is living that version at Bromley, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Jordon Ibe stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jordon Ibe and Bromley agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Sean Steur

Bromley asked and Newcastle United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Bromley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordon Ibe 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bromley

Jonathan Haftom 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.

Market

Bromley and Liam Mandeville are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets

Bromley ask about Remi Matthews

A loan enquiry to Crystal Palace: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Bromley try to borrow Sydie Peck

Sheffield United have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Bromley ask about Mahamadou Sangaré

A loan enquiry to Manchester City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief