The Barnet Herald
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cam Bragg due for a Barnet medical
Everything agreed with Southampton, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Barnet
Danny Collinge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Joshua Simmons steps up from the Barnet academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joshua Simmons has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Liam Roberts joins the Barnet first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Roberts is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Michael Clark joins the Barnet first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Clark is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Barnet promote Simon Murray from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simon Murray has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andy Cannon needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Barnet know which stage they are at.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Junior Vargas in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Barnet are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Barnet try to borrow Luca Williams-Barnett
Tottenham 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.
In brief
- The dugout Kabongo Tshimanga gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Kabongo Tshimanga faces his old club
- Squad Junior Vargas still has not settled