The Notts County Courier
Market20 Aug 2029
Matthew Dennis asks to leave Notts County
“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.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Notts County
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.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A row about effort at Notts County
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kaine Kesler Hayden was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets20 Aug 2029
Door shut on Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Notts County asked and AC Milan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Owen Lunt in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Notts County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market20 Aug 2029
One of our own: Samuel Wright joins the Notts County first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Wright is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Aug 2029
One of our own: George Phillips joins the Notts County first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. George Phillips is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Aug 2029
Notts County promote Jonathan Ellis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonathan Ellis 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.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
Nicolás Castagno gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad Notts County are still strangers to each other
- Squad Jorge Castro wants to go home
- Transfer targets Notts County try to borrow Braian Cuello