Robert King

Left Wingback - Free Agent
4 Apr 2032
Sunday
Process

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207 Edition

The Barnet Herald

15 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Barnet board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Eyes on David Abimbola again

The phone has started ringing about David Abimbola again, and this time the name on the line is Southampton. Barnet are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout

Nikoli Degtiarev: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Barnet have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barnet

Josh Hamilton 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Barnet

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nnamdi Ofoborh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Barnet rebuffed over Joe Taylor

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. West Bromwich Albion have kept their man, and Barnet go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Barnet try to borrow Lewis Miller

Sheffield United have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Barnet ask about Matthew Litherland

A loan enquiry to Sheffield United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Ronald González is a square peg at Barnet

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief