Jacob Bennett

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Lincoln City U18
20 Aug 2028
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Process

Marked for Jacob Bennett

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The Lincoln City Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jack Moylan has said yes to Barrow AFC

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Lincoln City have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Freddie Draper asks to leave Lincoln 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.

Boardroom

Lincoln City tie Mark Bailey down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Ayden Heaven

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lincoln City have done the hard part with Manchester United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Lincoln City

5 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.

Transfer targets

Lincoln City rebuffed over Luciano Giménez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Estudiantes have kept their man, and Lincoln City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: Paul Hughes joins the Lincoln City first team

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

Market

Jacob Bennett steps up from the Lincoln City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jacob Bennett 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.

Match

Rob Street the difference as Lincoln City beat Leyton Orient

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rob Street. 1‑0 against Leyton Orient, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief