The Port Vale Herald
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for Port Vale
11 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
Chastening afternoon for Port Vale
A 1‑4 beating by Cardiff City was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match8 Feb 2027
Port Vale are in real trouble now
Position 22, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad8 Feb 2027
16 days out for Funso Ojo 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Liam Gordon asks to leave Port Vale
“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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
David Phillips: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Port Vale have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Patrick Ciurria due for a Port Vale medical
Everything agreed with Monza, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Port Vale
George Hall and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rui Costa 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
- Market Henry Henderson steps up from the Port Vale academy
- Market Henry Allen steps up from the Port Vale academy
- Squad Ben Waine signs on for more