Jack Mitchell

Right Midfielder - Free Agent
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271 Edition

The Barnsley Gazette

6 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Oct 2031

Ellis McMillan damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.

Player ratings6 Oct 2031

Layton Stewart scores twice — 8.82

Two goals and a mark of 8.82 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad6 Oct 2031

Words exchanged at Barnsley

Layton Stewart 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.

Squad6 Oct 2031

Joaquim Marques arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Joaquim Marques has, at Barnsley, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match4 Oct 2031

Barnsley see off Plymouth Argyle

Three points for Barnsley, 2‑0 the final word against Plymouth Argyle in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad6 Oct 2031

Barnsley lose Jack Mitchell

24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout6 Oct 2031

Interim Coach has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Interim Coach on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Player ratings6 Oct 2031

Lorenz Hutchinson beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market6 Oct 2031

Iván Martínez told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Iván Martínez has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Barnsley.

In brief

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267 Edition

The Barnsley Gazette

8 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Sep 2031

Viktor Andri Hafþórsson breaks a bone — 36 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom8 Sep 2031

Barnsley write off $2.7M on Lasse Nordås

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $2.7M of what Barnsley paid for Lasse Nordås is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Market8 Sep 2031

Hilmar Karlsson 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 Barnsley, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market8 Sep 2031

Portsmouth come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Barnsley did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets8 Sep 2031

No deal for Bautista Arricau at that price

Barnsley offered $260.0K; Cardiff City said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets8 Sep 2031

Horacio Ali-Sticca stays at Watford as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Barnsley will try again when the window opens; Watford may not be selling by then.

Transfer targets8 Sep 2031

Barnsley rebuffed over Isaiah Jones

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

Squad8 Sep 2031

Barnsley count the cost of losing Jack Mitchell

52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad8 Sep 2031

Mattie Pollock is a square peg at Barnsley

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.

In brief