Jack Moore

Striker - Derby County U18
21 Feb 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Jack Moore

7 Edition

The Derby County Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Jack Moore damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ryan Hedges

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Lucas Bergvall falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Burnley are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Derby County will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Millwall take the points off Derby County

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Sam Szmodics has taken the shirt

At 30 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Derby County are won quietly and lost loudly.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Derby County Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Moore

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

Player ratings

Bobby Clark, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.13

A mark of 8.13 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Patrick Agyemang attracts admirers

The name of Patrick Agyemang has come up in conversations Derby County were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Tempers go at Derby County

Sam Szmodics 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.

Boardroom

Derby County counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Derby County now.

Market

Leeds United expected to open talks for Max Johnston

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Derby County will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ryan Hedges

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Derry Murkin

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Derry Murkin has come out of that comparison in the side, and Derby County have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Joe Ward

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

5 Edition

The Derby County Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A day Patrick Agyemang will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Derby County tear Preston apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Preston, and it could have been more.

Squad

Jack Moore damages knee ligaments — 33 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 33 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Derby County turn down Leeds United for Max Johnston

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Bobby Clark, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.16

A mark of 8.16 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Josh Vickers moves on

Sheffield United pay $2.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

So close: Johnson Osong’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Shrewsbury Town moved on, Johnson Osong reports back to Derby County, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Sam Szmodics 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 Derby County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Derby County and Preston in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

4 Edition

The Derby County Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Moore

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

Market

Derby County turn down Everton for Bobby Clark

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Josh Vickers 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 Derby County, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Derby County

Sam Szmodics 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Sondre Langås

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sondre Langås, and the manager let it.

Match

Sheffield United take the points off Derby County

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief