The Tranmere Rovers Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Lamine Cissé
Tranmere Rovers asked and Stoke City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Tranmere Rovers walk away from Modou Faal
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Wrexham 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Liam Gibbs turns down Tranmere Rovers
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Norwich City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joe Ironside signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joe Ironside and Tranmere Rovers agree another 2 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Simon Taylor joins the Tranmere Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Simon Taylor is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tranmere Rovers promote Luke Bennett from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Bennett 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
One of our own: Christopher Parker joins the Tranmere Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Parker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Charles Hawkins joins the Tranmere Rovers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Charles Hawkins is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of James Plant
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Tranmere Rovers
- Squad No place for Jason Kodor in the new shape
- Transfer targets Tranmere Rovers try to borrow Kamarl Grant