The Milton Keynes Dons Herald
Market25 Jun 2035
Daniel Barnes has said yes to Salford City
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Milton Keynes Dons have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market25 Jun 2035
So close: Andrei Coubiş’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Oxford United moved on, Andrei Coubiş reports back to Milton Keynes Dons, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market25 Jun 2035
Milton Keynes Dons say no — this time
The offer from Watford for Anthony Morris was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market25 Jun 2035
Nicholas Hunter hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Milton Keynes Dons can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
The paperwork begins on Tobi Oluwayemi
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Milton Keynes Dons have done the hard part with Aston Villa, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Too dear: Milton Keynes Dons walk away from La'more Lee-Forrester
$900.0K was the most the club would pay and Sheffield United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Middlesbrough tell Milton Keynes Dons: Adam Idah 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Lars Linnes is a square peg at Milton Keynes Dons
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Eirik Lereng remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Milton Keynes Dons would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Martin Dietrich
- The dugout Friedrich Günther asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom Milton Keynes Dons keep producing them