The Preston Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$6.3M settles it between the clubs for Ammar Ramadan
DAC Dunajska Streda have accepted the money. What Preston do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves: Daniel Iversen was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market17 Aug 2026
Bolton Wanderers watching Daniel Iversen
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Preston have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Preston
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Preston rebuffed over Tosin Adarabioyo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tottenham have kept their man, and Preston go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
One of their own: Andrew Moran
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Ward joins the Preston first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Ward is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andrew Wood joins the Preston first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andrew Wood is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Richard Shaw steps up from the Preston academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Shaw 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
- Squad A row about effort at Preston
- Player ratings Andrew Moran stands above it all
- Match Honours even between Preston and Middlesbrough