The Milton Keynes Dons Herald
Market17 Aug 2026
Bolton Wanderers come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Milton Keynes Dons did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Keehan Willows 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. Keehan Willows is living that version at Milton Keynes Dons, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Milton Keynes Dons
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Milton Keynes Dons training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jay Matete 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marvin Ekpiteta 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 Milton Keynes Dons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Charlie Setford
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
Milton Keynes Dons promote Timothy Price from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timothy Price 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Milton Keynes Dons promote Simon Young from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simon Young 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Milton Keynes Dons promote Henry Simmons from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henry Simmons 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
- Squad The manager makes an example of Gethin Jones
- Loan watch Rian Silver wants to come home
- Boardroom Milton Keynes Dons turn down the training-ground plan