The Blackpool Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2027
Hayden Coulson damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Blackpool
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Aug 2027
Blackpool say no — this time
The offer from Liepaja for Gerrard Buabo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Too dear: Blackpool walk away from Ben Davies
$720.0K was the most the club would pay and Tottenham were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 unbeaten for Blackpool
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Blackpool did not have in the autumn.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Door shut on Lewis Brunt
Blackpool asked and Leicester City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Mathis Servais
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mathis Servais, and the manager let it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Salford City join the queue for Franco Ravizzoli
Add another name to the list: Salford City have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Franco Ravizzoli. The answer from Blackpool has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Anthony Ward joins the Blackpool first team
- Market One of our own: Joshua Turner joins the Blackpool first team
- Player ratings Josh Bowler stands above it all