The Walsall Chronicle
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Walsall baulk at the price for Tom Iorpenda
Swansea City wanted more than $470.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Walsall
Joe Worrall and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Walsall
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Harry Williams was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Walsall rebuffed over Kelefa Camara
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KAA Gent have kept their man, and Walsall go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Walsall count the cost of losing Jonathan Taylor
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A loan move for Andrea Michieletto is in the works
Walsall have made the call to Atalanta. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Jonny Stuttle is a square peg at Walsall
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market19 Jul 2027
The shop window has Harry Williams in it
Walsall have let the market know Harry Williams can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Jamie Pardington has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jamie Pardington has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Joe Worrall
- Match Mid-table, and Walsall know it