The Tranmere Rovers Gazette
Player ratings24 Oct 2033
A brace, and Brayan Alcócer takes the afternoon — 8.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Brayan Alcócer provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 Oct 2033
Cameron Wilson is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Tranmere Rovers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Oct 2033
Taylor Richards 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 Tranmere Rovers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Oct 2033
Words at Tranmere Rovers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liam Lindsay is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match22 Oct 2033
Tranmere Rovers get the job done against Northampton Town
A 2‑0 win over Northampton Town, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings24 Oct 2033
Niall McAndrew runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Oct 2033
Raúl Navarro gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Oct 2033
Liam Lindsay knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Liam Lindsay trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Oct 2033
The Giovanni Mattioli talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tranmere Rovers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Billy Cullinane runs his contract down
- Market Alexander Marshall placed on the list
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Joshua Ajala