The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle
The dugout20 Aug 2029
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Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
Door shut on Ao Tanaka
Crewe Alexandra asked and Arsenal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market20 Aug 2029
Owen Hayden-Taylor asks to leave Crewe Alexandra
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Loui Whitehead arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Loui Whitehead has, at Crewe Alexandra, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Moussa Baradji in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Crewe Alexandra
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.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A late step up for Adam Forshaw
At 37 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Sherif was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match18 Aug 2029
Oxford United take the points off Crewe Alexandra
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jack Lankester
- Market Crewe Alexandra promote Daniel Hill from within
- Market One of our own: Matthew Watson joins the Crewe Alexandra first team