The Salford City Gazette
Player ratings21 Jan 2036
Anton Tankovic, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30
A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Jan 2036
David Stewart 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.
Squad21 Jan 2036
At 21, Anton Tankovic is already the best thing here
An average of 7.09 in a first team he is several years too young for. Salford City have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Tempers go at Salford City
Matt Ingram was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match19 Jan 2036
Salford City get the job done against Newport County
A 2‑1 win over Newport County, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Jan 2036
Zack Nelson was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad21 Jan 2036
Brooklyn Lyons-Foster falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom21 Jan 2036
119% of the income goes out in wages at Salford City
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market21 Jan 2036
The Ryan Graydon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Salford City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Jack Mitchell leaves for nothing
- Market Nathan Phillips leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Jack Griffin