Robert Bailey

Defensive Midfielder - Salford City U20
13 Feb 2032
Friday
Process

Marked for Robert Bailey

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The Salford City Gazette

17 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

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.

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Salford City, and it is not being withdrawn.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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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