The Cheltenham Town Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Kamarni Ryan would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kamarni Ryan is living that version at Cheltenham Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tom Bradshaw signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tom Bradshaw commits to Cheltenham Town for another 2 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Cheltenham Town walk away from Ben Wilson
$110.0K was the most the club would pay and Coventry 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Walsall tell Cheltenham Town: Charlie Wragg 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Liam Grant joins the Cheltenham Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Grant is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Richard Brown joins the Cheltenham Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Brown is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Charles Richardson steps up from the Cheltenham Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Charles Richardson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Benjamin Phillips steps up from the Cheltenham Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benjamin Phillips 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Grant Smith
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Cheltenham Town will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Cheltenham Town
- Transfer targets A loan move for Harry Ibbitson is in the works
- Looking ahead Jake Bickerstaff faces his old club