The Canterbury United Gazette
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 2 out at Canterbury United
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Joe De Vries 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Monty Barbarouses
At 22 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Canterbury United
Chris Waine 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Callum Barbarouses 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Late improvement for Michael Just
At 28 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
In brief
- The dugout Jake Lewis gets it from the manager
- Market Canterbury United put Michael Just up for sale
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Chris Waine