Benjamin Murray

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Fleetwood Town
29 Oct 2027
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Process

Marked for Benjamin Murray

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The Fleetwood Town Post

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ben Garrity is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Fleetwood Town will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Words exchanged at Fleetwood Town

Ethan Ennis 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 dugout

No hiding place for Ched Evans

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ched Evans, and the manager let it.

Squad

Josh Powell 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.

Squad

Benjamin Murray signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benjamin Murray commits to Fleetwood Town for another 3 years.

The dugout

Jay Lynch is still paying for one afternoon at Fleetwood Town

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market

Still no signature from Ched Evans

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Fleetwood Town could get for him.

The dugout

The manager makes Toby Mullarkey a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Fleetwood Town. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

Finley Potter knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Finley Potter trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

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The Fleetwood Town Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Harrison Neal breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Sam Chambers, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93

A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Newcastle United tell Fleetwood Town: Sean Steur 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 terraces

Fleetwood Town supporters have found a favourite in Sam Chambers

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Sam Chambers has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Kieran Wilson deal

Fleetwood Town ran out of time with Exeter City. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dylan Moody

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dylan Moody, and the manager let it.

Market

Talks stall between Fleetwood Town and Jack Simpson

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

Benjamin Murray signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benjamin Murray commits to Fleetwood Town for another 3 years.

Match

Fleetwood Town and Tranmere Rovers take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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The Fleetwood Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Sam Chambers, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.69

A mark of 7.69 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Fleetwood Town bid $1.2M for Rhys Chadwick

The offer went to Leeds United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Fleetwood Town bid $410.0K for Nathan Opoku

The offer went to Leicester City this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Fleetwood Town

Ben Garrity 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Fleetwood Town

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.

The terraces

Fleetwood Town supporters have found a favourite in Sam Chambers

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Sam Chambers has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ben Garrity

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Fleetwood Town promote Jack Price from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jack Price 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.

Market

Benjamin Murray steps up from the Fleetwood Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Murray has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief