The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle
Market23 Aug 2027
Jack Lankester 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 The request is on a desk at Crewe Alexandra, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Yunus Emre Konak says Crewe Alexandra went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$840.0K settles it between the clubs for Elijah Briscoe
Aston Villa have accepted the money. What Crewe Alexandra do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Aaron Lewis pops up at the right end — 7.36
7.36, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Crewe Alexandra make their move for Ali Ahmed
$1.4M on the table at Norwich City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Crewe Alexandra
Yunus Emre Konak 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Crewe Alexandra
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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Crewe Alexandra rebuffed over Flynn Macnack
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Modena have kept their man, and Crewe Alexandra go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Jonathan Ross joins the Crewe Alexandra first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonathan Ross is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Paul Cooper joins the Crewe Alexandra first team
- Market One of our own: Andrew Ellis joins the Crewe Alexandra first team
- Player ratings Dion Rankine beats them one at a time