Alexander Morgan

Left Midfielder - Blackburn Rovers U18
4 Oct 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Alexander Morgan

166 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Carlos Bianchi takes the Blackburn Rovers job

“I have watched this squad. There is more in it than the table says.” First press conference, first promise — Carlos Bianchi made the one every new manager makes, and now comes the part where it gets checked.

Squad

Sondre Tronstad damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Jayden Fevrier hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Blackburn Rovers can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Alexander Morgan out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Alexander Morgan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

A falling-out at Blackburn Rovers

Andri Guðjohnsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Jayden Fevrier has a hand in both — 7.89

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.89, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Rodrigo Fernández wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Blackburn Rovers know it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Balázs Tóth

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

Match

Blackburn Rovers refuse to lose to Ipswich Town

A point taken on 93 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

In brief

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162 Edition

The Blackburn Rovers Chronicle

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Sondre Tronstad out for 72 days

72 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Blackburn Rovers lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Harry Pickering agrees terms with Aston Villa

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Blackburn Rovers people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Bournemouth tell Blackburn Rovers: Tyler Adams is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Jayden Fevrier puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Blackburn Rovers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Oladapo Afolayan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 26 in, 27 out at Blackburn Rovers

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 26 arrived, 27 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Blackburn Rovers lose Alexander Morgan

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

Squad

A falling-out at Blackburn Rovers

Ryan Fredericks and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Sam Morsy wants more than Blackburn Rovers are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

In brief