Nathan Murphy

Striker - Preston U18
17 Oct 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Nathan Murphy

3 Edition

The Preston Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Preston get their man

The chase for Harrison Reed ended with $4.2M changing hands and Fulham out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Squad

Daniel Iversen in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Preston this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Union Brescia watching Harrison Reed

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Preston have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Preston

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Milutin Osmajić

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

Market

Preston promote Matthew Young from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matthew 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.

Market

Nathan Murphy steps up from the Preston academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nathan Murphy 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.

Match

Preston come up short against Derby County

Derby County left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Alfie Devine falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

  • Player ratings Robbie Brady runs at them all day
  • Squad Ben Whiteman dropped after a run of poor form
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Preston