David Barnes

Left Wingback - AFC Wimbledon U18
11 Sep 2027
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The AFC Wimbledon Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Chastening afternoon for AFC Wimbledon

A 0‑3 beating by Barnsley was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Transfer targets

AFC Wimbledon bid $3.7M for Nathan Fraser

The offer went to Wolverhampton this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

AFC Wimbledon go back to the board over Róbert Boženík

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $10.1M — a club that wants Róbert Boženík enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Isaac Holland due for a AFC Wimbledon medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Louis Page turns down AFC Wimbledon

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Leicester City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

AFC Wimbledon make their move for Shea Connor

$35.0K on the table at Middlesbrough. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Boardroom

Graduation day at AFC Wimbledon

3 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.

Market

One of our own: Henry Jackson joins the AFC Wimbledon first team

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

Market

Nicholas Stewart steps up from the AFC Wimbledon academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicholas Stewart 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.

In brief