Marked for Jacob Mitchell
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Mitchell
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millwall lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Fee done, terms next for Fran Vieites
Millwall and Leicester City have settled on $3.8M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad28 Aug 2028
A fracture rules Tropi out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Millwall will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Aug 2028
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Femi Azeez decided nobody was going anywhere. Derby County had no time left to answer.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Estêvão, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.35
A mark of 8.35 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market28 Aug 2028
The bid was some way short and Millwall did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Alex Hartridge gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Alex Hartridge has just signed for Millwall, and for once the answer mattered.
Market28 Aug 2028
The chase for Alex Hartridge ended with $430.0K changing hands and Oxford United out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad28 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Millwall this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad21 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Mitchell
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millwall lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Aug 2028
48 days out for Tropi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millwall will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market21 Aug 2028
The bid was some way short and Millwall did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market21 Aug 2028
The paperwork is done: Harry Tyrer joins from Cardiff City in a deal worth $1.6M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad21 Aug 2028
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market21 Aug 2028
Only the photograph left for Massimo Luongo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Massimo Luongo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millwall the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market21 Aug 2028
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Basel keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ra'ees Bangura-Williams and Millwall agree another 4 years.
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Steady
Squad14 Aug 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jacob Mitchell
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Millwall lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Aug 2028
55 days out for Tropi after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Millwall will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
Elias Mansor: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Millwall have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
The deal with Sunderland is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market14 Aug 2028
Only the photograph left for Stuart Moore
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Stuart Moore will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Millwall the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Estêvão and Millwall agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets14 Aug 2028
The offer went to Southampton 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.
Boardroom14 Aug 2028
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Stuart Moore has agreed terms with Southampton for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Elias Mansor is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.