Robert Green

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Colchester United U18
12 Feb 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Robert Green

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The Colchester United Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Dionicio Escalante 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 Colchester United can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Colchester United

The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Market

Matt Macey is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Colchester United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Colchester United walk away from Danny Rose

$28.0K was the most the club would pay and Barrow AFC were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

Colchester United rebuffed over Rodrigo Rêgo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brighton have kept their man, and Colchester United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Kyreece Lisbie beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Jack Tucker

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad

Colchester United lose Jack Baldwin

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Colchester United

Taylan Harris 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.

In brief

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The Colchester United Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Adrian Akande beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Colchester United agree $810.0K for Joe Adams

The clubs have shaken hands with Wigan Athletic; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market

Colchester United turn down Preston for Kyreece Lisbie

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Julian Geerts will not be coming to Colchester United

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Helmond Sport is saying, and nobody at Colchester United is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

An offer of $330.0K for Taylan Harris

Colchester United have gone to Luton Town with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Colchester United

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.

Market

One of our own: Andrew Fisher joins the Colchester United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrew Fisher is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Robert Green joins the Colchester United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Green is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Colchester United promote Andrew Watson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrew Watson 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.

In brief