The Chesterfield Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Chesterfield rebuffed over Róbert Boženík
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stoke City have kept their man, and Chesterfield go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Chesterfield say no — this time
The offer from Mosta for Will Grigg was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
Grant Smith is a Chesterfield player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luke Henderson joins the Chesterfield first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luke Henderson 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
Chesterfield promote Robert Graham from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Graham 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Jordan Graham
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Chesterfield will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Zach Hemming stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zach Hemming and Chesterfield agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Francisco Souza Silva is in the works
Chesterfield have made the call to Benfica. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Tom Pearce knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Chesterfield, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad Louie Marsh is a square peg at Chesterfield
- The dugout No hiding place for Zach Hemming
- Looking ahead Ryan Stirk faces his old club