The Chesterfield Courier
Squad9 Aug 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nicholas Mitchell
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chesterfield lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market9 Aug 2032
Dilan Markanday 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 Chesterfield can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Mubarak Al-Buainain breaks a bone — 34 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Lee Bonis signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lee Bonis commits to Chesterfield for another 3 years.
Squad9 Aug 2032
Tempers go at Chesterfield
Zach Hemming 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.
Market9 Aug 2032
As if he never left: Joonas Igonen returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Joonas Igonen is a Chesterfield player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
In brief
- Boardroom Wages eat 117% of everything Chesterfield earn
- Market The Liam Kitching story refuses to die
- Market Chesterfield put Mubarak Al-Buainain up for sale