The Barnsley Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Barnsley walk away from Ephron Mason-Clark
$9.9M was the most the club would pay and Coventry City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Patrick Kelly, 21, steals the show — 7.71
Marked 7.71 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Barnsley go back to the board over Calvin Ramsay
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $590.7K — a club that wants Calvin Ramsay enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Barnsley bid $550.0K for Calvin Ramsay
The offer went to Liverpool this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Barnsley make their move for Jack Shorrock
$140.0K on the table at Port Vale. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Norwich City tell Barnsley: Liam Gibbs 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Barnsley
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Georgie Gent runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Barnsley
Layton Stewart and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The terraces Barnsley supporters have found a favourite in Patrick Kelly
- Market One of our own: Jack Williams joins the Barnsley first team
- Market Barnsley promote Anthony Scott from within