Ellis Moss

Right Back - Free Agent
3 Oct 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Ellis Moss

154 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Louie Sibley due for a Cheltenham Town medical

Everything agreed with Leeds United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

The dugout

Regan Clayton: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cheltenham Town have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

The step up is real for Nathan Tinsdale

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Shaun McWilliams 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Oxford United tell Cheltenham Town: Matt Ingram 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Cheltenham Town

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

Squad

George Nurse 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 85% of the Cheltenham Town income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Market

Myles Roberts linked with a move away

The name of Myles Roberts keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cheltenham Town say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

The caretaker keeps it: Joseph Marshall confirmed

A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Cheltenham Town

Position 22 and 27 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Only the photograph left for Marcus Dinanga

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marcus Dinanga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cheltenham Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Luke Brooke-Smith at 19 — 7.97

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Luke Brooke-Smith did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Boardroom

Marcus Dinanga signs for Stockport County while still at Cheltenham Town

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Marcus Dinanga has agreed terms with Stockport County for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Myles Roberts stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Myles Roberts and Cheltenham Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Ben Gibson 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ellis Moss arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ellis Moss has, at Cheltenham Town, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Shaun McWilliams 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.

In brief