Benjamin Barnes

Goalkeeper - Salford City U18
20 Aug 2028
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The Salford City Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Miguel Pabón asks to leave Salford City

“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.

Player ratings

Alfie May scores twice — 8.21

Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout

Tyler Onyango keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Salford City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Salford City make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Salford City have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Jens Hjertø-Dahl 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

The run at home goes on for Salford City

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Boardroom

6 academy players handed senior numbers at Salford City

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Words at Salford City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Watson 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.

Transfer targets

Oxford United tell Salford City: Freddie Woodman 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.

In brief