The Colchester United Herald
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Junior Vargas scores twice — 8.21
Two goals and a mark of 8.21 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market17 Aug 2026
Marsaxlokk come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Colchester United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Jakov Medić will not be coming to Colchester United
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Norwich City is saying, and nobody at Colchester United is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Colchester United
Junior Vargas 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Colchester United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Hull City tell Colchester United: Jens Hjertø-Dahl is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
One of their own: Adrian Akande
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match15 Aug 2026
Junior Vargas sends Colchester United past Tranmere Rovers
It finished 2‑0, and it was Junior Vargas’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Colchester United.
Market17 Aug 2026
Colchester United promote Oliver Howard from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Howard has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Joseph Murray joins the Colchester United first team
- Market One of our own: Liam White joins the Colchester United first team
- Squad Miguel Ángel Brau reaches 100 appearances