The Exeter City Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Jeffrey Schlupp would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jeffrey Schlupp is living that version at Exeter City, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jeffrey Schlupp signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jeffrey Schlupp commits to Exeter City for another 2 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Exeter City rebuffed over Baylee Dipepa
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Exeter City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Exeter City promote Peter Thompson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Thompson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Exeter City promote David Mitchell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Mitchell 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Henry Robinson steps up from the Exeter City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henry Robinson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Liam Scott joins the Exeter City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Scott is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Hogg 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Exeter City
Pablo Villalba 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Exeter City try to borrow Joan Tincres
- The dugout No hiding place for Jake Doyle-Hayes
- Looking ahead Exeter City host Rotherham United