Robert Pearson

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Swindon Town U18
6 May 2029
Sunday
Process

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The Swindon Town Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Paul Glatzel

72 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Swindon Town lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The dugout

Gideon Kodua keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Swindon Town may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Rolando García Guerreño 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 The request is on a desk at Swindon Town, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Kieran Morgan turns down Swindon Town

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Queens Park Rangers keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Swindon Town

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 targets

Genoa tell Swindon Town: Cody Drameh is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Aaron Drinan sends Swindon Town past Cambridge United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Aaron Drinan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Swindon Town.

The terraces

Swindon Town supporters have found a favourite in Gideon Kodua

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Gideon Kodua has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Jonathan Edwards steps up from the Swindon Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Edwards 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