The Walsall Chronicle
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Brad Collins
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Walsall lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Josh Andrews says Walsall went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Vincent Harper was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market21 Aug 2028
Jack Whatmough 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 Walsall can pretend not to have heard.
Market21 Aug 2028
Kamron Dimata-Gomis has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Walsall they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Hjalmar Ekdal will not be coming to Walsall
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Burnley is saying, and nobody at Walsall is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Walsall
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Josh Andrews 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.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Walsall rebuffed over Mads Roerslev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brighton have kept their man, and Walsall go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad James Furlong in a row with a teammate
- Match Another one collected away from home
- Market One of our own: Liam Simmons joins the Walsall first team