The Notts County Courier
Market24 May 2032
Alassana Jatta has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Notts County they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 May 2032
Lucero Lanterna wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Notts County know it.
Squad24 May 2032
Balázs Bakti falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 May 2032
Words exchanged at Notts County
Alexander Spencer and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout24 May 2032
Mikael Ugland gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout24 May 2032
Stevie Bausor asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout24 May 2032
Ashton Shaw has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Notts County will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market24 May 2032
Still no signature from Alassana Jatta
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Notts County could get for him.
Market24 May 2032
The Alexander Spencer question follows Notts County around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alexander Spencer’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Kwandile Gumemde a promise
- Match A season winding down at Notts County
- Squad Welcome back, David Wright