The Blackpool Sentinel
Squad25 Aug 2031
A fracture rules Niall Ennis out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Blackpool will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Kemuel Edouard-Marrison will not be coming to Blackpool
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Queens Park Rangers is saying, and nobody at Blackpool is enjoying the guessing.
Market25 Aug 2031
Josh Renton 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 The request is on a desk at Blackpool, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Luke O'Nien in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Blackpool this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Isaac Gnafoua is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad25 Aug 2031
Richard Thompson 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. Richard Thompson has, at Blackpool, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2031
Blackpool rebuffed over Kasper Høgh
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Manchester United have kept their man, and Blackpool go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match23 Aug 2031
Plymouth Argyle take the points off Blackpool
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market25 Aug 2031
Aimar Govea has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Blackpool can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Blackpool buy the years ahead of Richard Thompson
- The dugout Blackpool pick somebody else ahead of George Honeyman