The Colchester United Herald
Player ratings31 Jan 2028
Luigi Cendales beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 33. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Joel Abraham stands alone
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match29 Jan 2028
Doncaster Rovers end the Colchester United run at 14
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 14 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Jeremías Unzurrunzaga keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Colchester United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Too dear: Colchester United walk away from Fred Heath
$1.2M was the most the club would pay and Manchester United 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Home is on Tatsuki Seko's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Colchester United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad31 Jan 2028
A row about effort at Colchester United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tatsuki Seko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Colchester United rebuffed over Prince Adu Kwabena
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crystal Palace have kept their man, and Colchester United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Colchester United
Jevan Beattie and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- Market Peter Richardson steps up from the Colchester United academy
- Market One of our own: Benjamin Spencer joins the Colchester United first team
- Market Colchester United promote Michael Davis from within