The Cheltenham Town Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move George Lloyd would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. George Lloyd is living that version at Cheltenham Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market10 Aug 2026
George Lloyd is a Cheltenham Town player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cheltenham Town rebuffed over Benoný Breki Andrésson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stockport County have kept their man, and Cheltenham Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Hamilton joins the Cheltenham Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Hamilton 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
Cheltenham Town promote Steven White from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Steven White 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Mark Smith joins the Cheltenham Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mark Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Steve Seddon has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Cheltenham Town know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
12 new faces, and Cheltenham Town are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad10 Aug 2026
George Lloyd is a square peg at Cheltenham Town
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
In brief
- Transfer targets Cheltenham Town ask about Kaine Kesler Hayden
- Transfer targets Cheltenham Town try to borrow Gideon Kodua
- Looking ahead A reunion for Josh Andrews