Michael Atkinson

Goalkeeper - Fleetwood Town U18
10 Dec 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Michael Atkinson

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The Fleetwood Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Keanan Bennetts was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

Danny Imray due for a Fleetwood Town medical

Everything agreed with Wrexham, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Fleetwood Town

Joe Powell and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Fleetwood Town

3 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.

The terraces

$700.0K for Sam Curtis, and Fleetwood Town supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Sam Curtis from Sheffield United for $700.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Rhys Bennett

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

Michael Atkinson steps up from the Fleetwood Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michael Atkinson 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.

Market

Fleetwood Town promote Paul Davis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paul Davis 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.

Market

One of our own: Jonathan Evans joins the Fleetwood Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jonathan Evans is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief