Michael Bailey

Right Midfielder - Huddersfield Town U18
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Michael Bailey

160 Edition

The Huddersfield Town Sentinel

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Huddersfield Town taken apart

1‑5 to Middlesbrough, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad

Tempers go at Huddersfield Town

Cristhian Mosquera was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Alex Paulsen stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Paulsen and Huddersfield Town agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Huddersfield Town lose Ephraim Yeboah

138 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

No hiding place for Rodrigo Bentancur

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Bentancur, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Will Alves

Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Boardroom

Huddersfield Town board go back on their word

Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Huddersfield Town dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

A long bet from Huddersfield Town on Timothy Reid

He is 17, and nobody at Huddersfield Town signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief