The Salford City Gazette
Market17 Nov 2031
Only the photograph left for Zack Nelson
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Zack Nelson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Salford City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market17 Nov 2031
Taku Muvhuti 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 The request is on a desk at Salford City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings17 Nov 2031
Ruari Paton 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 Nov 2031
Words at Salford City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Rose is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match15 Nov 2031
A bad afternoon for Salford City against Milton Keynes Dons
0‑1 to Milton Keynes Dons, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Nov 2031
No hiding place for Luke Garbutt
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luke Garbutt, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Nsemi Bassega 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Nov 2031
Salford City count the cost of losing Robert Bailey
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market17 Nov 2031
The Kelly Saravanan talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Salford City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Joe Emery
- Boardroom Salford City keep producing them