Robert Clark

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Marked for Robert Clark

45 Edition

The Oldham Athletic Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Jun 2027

Josh Hawkes 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 The request is on a desk at Oldham Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Liverpool tell Oldham Athletic: Michael Laffey 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Mike Fondop wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Oldham Athletic know it.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A move Enver Cenk Şahin 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. Enver Cenk Şahin is living that version at Oldham Athletic, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Oldham Athletic beat the market to Alan Domeracki from Norwich City

Norwich City will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Alan Domeracki has pre-agreed a move to Oldham Athletic, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Omari Benjamin 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 Oldham Athletic this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A row about effort at Oldham Athletic

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Manny Monthé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Oldham Athletic try to borrow Filip Lissah

Swansea City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market7 Jun 2027

Oldham Athletic sign Robert Clark, one for the future

Robert Clark is 15, and Oldham Athletic have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

Back issues
44 Edition

The Watford Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout31 May 2027

Mady Camara: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Watford have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market31 May 2027

Tobi Adeyemo comes back from a loan that worked

44 appearances and 11 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad31 May 2027

Tempers go at Watford

Nikoloz Chikovani was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout31 May 2027

No hiding place for Nampalys Mendy

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

The dugout31 May 2027

When it matters, Tom Dele-Bashiru plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market31 May 2027

The Kwadwo Baah question follows Watford around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kwadwo Baah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout31 May 2027

Tom Dele-Bashiru knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Watford, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market31 May 2027

Robert Clark leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Robert Clark leaves Watford the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Squad31 May 2027

Formose Mendy is training like a man with a point to make

Nobody has promised him anything and he has not asked. The coaching staff have noticed, which at this stage of a season is the only thing that matters.

In brief

35 Edition

The Watford Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Mar 2027

Robert Clark signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robert Clark and Watford agree another 4 years.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Julien Bègue

“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.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Edo Kayembe has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Watford will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market29 Mar 2027

Kwadwo Baah linked with a move away

The name of Kwadwo Baah keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Watford say nothing, which says plenty.

The terraces29 Mar 2027

Supporters make their feelings known about Giorgi Chakvetadze

The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Watford would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Mattie Pollock 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 Mattie Pollock has written the date down.

Squad29 Mar 2027

A wage question at Watford

Daniel Bachmann has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Robert Clark 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 Robert Clark trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Formose Mendy finally belongs at Watford

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

33 Edition

The Watford Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad15 Mar 2027

Rocco Vata is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.11 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Watford know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

The dugout15 Mar 2027

Kwadwo Baah gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match13 Mar 2027

Watford come up short against Southampton

Southampton left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market15 Mar 2027

Peter Harvey steps up from the Watford academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Harvey 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.

Market15 Mar 2027

Robert Clark steps up from the Watford academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Clark 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.

Market15 Mar 2027

John Pearson steps up from the Watford academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. John Pearson 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.

Market15 Mar 2027

One of our own: Peter Russell joins the Watford first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Russell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Egil Selvik reaches 200 appearances

200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

Squad15 Mar 2027

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Sebastian Thrussell

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Watford will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

In brief