The Barnet Herald
Squad5 Jul 2032
Sam Hornby damages knee ligaments — 92 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 92 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
Barnet put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
Emergency meeting at Barnet
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Market5 Jul 2032
Ryan Nelson puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Barnet, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market5 Jul 2032
Only the photograph left for Tate Xavier-Jones
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tate Xavier-Jones will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Barnet the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2032
The paperwork begins on Nathaniel-Junior Brown
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Barnet have done the hard part with Manchester United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad5 Jul 2032
Words exchanged at Barnet
Anthony Hartigan 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2032
$351.6K from the owner keeps Barnet afloat
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2032
Door shut on Cathal McCarthy
Barnet asked and Hull City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Alfie Parsley
- Squad Liam Cooper pulls a muscle — 14 days out
- Market Still no ink between Barnet and Tate Xavier-Jones