Michael Thompson

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Crawley Town U18
4 Jan 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Michael Thompson

2 Edition

The Crawley Town Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A move Kamarni Ryan would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kamarni Ryan is living that version at Crawley Town, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets

Crawley Town bid $3.6M for Nathan Fraser

The offer went to Wolverhampton this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Crawley Town count the cost of losing James Bolton

39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Kamarni Ryan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kamarni Ryan and Crawley Town agree another 5 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Crawley Town

Taylor Richards was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

Monaco tell Crawley Town: Romaric Etonde 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

One of our own: Richard Murray joins the Crawley Town first team

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

Market

Michael Thompson steps up from the Crawley Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Thompson 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.

Market

Charles Clarke steps up from the Crawley Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Charles Clarke 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.

In brief