The Port Vale Herald
Squad23 Aug 2027
27 days out for Rico Richards after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Port Vale will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Zinho Januzaj is a medical away from Port Vale
The deal with Zulte Waregem is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Port Vale
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run at home goes on for Port Vale
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Port Vale
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Trai Hume is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Jaheim Headley runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Stoke City tell Port Vale: Marcus Edwards is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match21 Aug 2027
Port Vale come up short against Cambridge United
Cambridge United left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Market Floriana join the queue for Rhys Walters
- The dugout No hiding place for Marko Maroši
- Market Jack Murphy steps up from the Port Vale academy