The Port Vale Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Eden Witsel turns down Port Vale
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Mouscron keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy graduates step up at Port Vale
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match15 Aug 2026
Leyton Orient take the points off Port Vale
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Manchester United tell Port Vale: Ayden Heaven 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Onel Hernández 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 Port Vale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Simon Taylor steps up from the Port Vale academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simon Taylor has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
One of those days for Ben Waine
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Michael Clarke to a room that had heard them before.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Ashall-Cody 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Port Vale turn down the training-ground plan
- The dugout No hiding place for Oliver Fraser
- Squad Rui Costa finally opens his account