The Cheltenham Town Courier
Market23 Aug 2027
Ollie O'Neill asks to leave Cheltenham Town
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Vintage Duncan Watmore — 8.23
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.23, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market23 Aug 2027
Eyes on Callum Burton again
The phone has started ringing about Callum Burton again, and this time the name on the line is Oldham Athletic. Cheltenham Town are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Cheltenham Town make their move for George Edmundson
$1.5M on the table at Middlesbrough. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market23 Aug 2027
Académico de Viseu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Cheltenham Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Cheltenham Town lose Janoi Donacien
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Cheltenham Town
Finley McAllister and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mattia Weder is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Cheltenham Town
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Match Cheltenham Town see off Shrewsbury Town
- Market Cheltenham Town promote George Morgan from within
- The dugout No hiding place for Callum Burton