The Colchester United Herald
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Colchester United go back to the board over Ben Elliott
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $300.4K — a club that wants Ben Elliott enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ezra Mayers due for a Colchester United medical
Everything agreed with West Ham United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Adrian Akande runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Colchester United
Duván Riascos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Colchester United walk away from Ben Elliott
$280.0K was the most the club would pay and Reading 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Colchester United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Norwich City tell Colchester United: Liam Gibbs 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Colchester United promote Andrew Johnson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrew Johnson has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
Samuel Green steps up from the Colchester United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samuel Green 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
- Market David Young steps up from the Colchester United academy
- Market One of our own: Richard Foster joins the Colchester United first team
- Squad Matthew Smith needs a bigger stage