The Northampton Town Herald
Market14 Jun 2027
Ararat come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Northampton Town did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Northampton Town rebuffed over Kelly N'Mai
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Salford City have kept their man, and Northampton Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Too dear: Northampton Town walk away from Chris Willock
$3.2M was the most the club would pay and Cardiff City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market14 Jun 2027
Liam Shaw 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 The request is on a desk at Northampton Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Northampton Town bid $17.0K for Scott Hogan
The offer went to Milton Keynes Dons 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.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Northampton Town still without a manager
13 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Northampton Town
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joe White was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tarik Hamamioglu 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 Northampton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Jun 2027
One of our own: Simon Davis joins the Northampton Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Simon Davis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Charles Thompson joins the Northampton Town first team
- The dugout No hiding place for Tom Eaves
- Squad Northampton Town are still strangers to each other