Daniel Young

Defensive Midfielder - Blackpool U18
19 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Young

42 Edition

The Blackpool Sentinel

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Dan Sassi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Blackpool may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

The dugout

Estivel Moreira is still paying for one afternoon at Blackpool

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

When it matters, Noah Markmann plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Leighton Clarkson knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Blackpool, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Bailey Peacock-Farrell talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Blackpool know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Dante Cassanova has settled at Blackpool

The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.

In brief

Back issues
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The Blackpool Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Michael Ihiekwe, 33, rolls back the years — 7.89

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.89 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Transfer targets

Blackpool bid $1.1M for Joe Whitworth

The offer went to Wigan Athletic this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Freddie Woodman

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Blackpool have done the hard part with Liverpool, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Blackpool

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets

Southampton tell Blackpool: Dylan Moody 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.

Match

Blackpool get the job done against Burton Albion

A 2‑0 win over Burton Albion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Blackpool promote Paul Bell from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paul Bell 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.

Market

Timothy James steps up from the Blackpool academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timothy James 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.

Market

Blackpool promote Daniel Young from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Young 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.

In brief