The Lincoln City Post
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$25.7M settles it between the clubs for James Hill
Bournemouth have accepted the money. What Lincoln City do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Adam Jackson breaks a bone — 76 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Jun 2027
Daniel Oyegoke hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lincoln City can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Lincoln City go back to the board over Charlie Whitaker
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.2M — a club that wants Charlie Whitaker enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Kuryu Matsuki due for a Lincoln City medical
Everything agreed with Southampton, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Lincoln City rebuffed over Charlie Whitaker
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tranmere Rovers have kept their man, and Lincoln City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at Lincoln City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andrei Coubiş is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market14 Jun 2027
One of our own: Timothy Russell joins the Lincoln City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timothy Russell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Jun 2027
Lincoln City promote Anthony Clarke from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Clarke has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Joshua Cunningham steps up from the Lincoln City academy
- The dugout Lincoln City keep their word to Deji Elerewe
- The dugout Dom Jefferies is still being punished for one mistake