The Crawley Town Courier
Market5 Jul 2027
Dion Conroy asks to leave Crawley Town
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The paperwork begins on Joe Brayson
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Crawley Town have done the hard part with Newcastle United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Igor Tyjon
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Crawley Town will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Michael Bennett is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Taylor Richards 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 targets5 Jul 2027
Door shut on George Evans
Crawley Town asked and West Bromwich Albion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Crawley Town lose Matthew Johnson
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Crawley Town ask about Hugo Bueno
A loan enquiry to Wolverhampton: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Crawley Town academy
5 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
In brief
- The dugout Simon Dia gets it from the manager
- Market The Taylor Richards question follows Crawley Town around
- Market Talks stall between Crawley Town and Courtney Baker-Richardson