The Exeter City Courier
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Fee done, terms next for Rob Atkinson
Exeter City and Bristol City have settled on $3.4M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market14 Jun 2027
Nico Valentine hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Exeter City can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Lincoln City tell Exeter City: Jack Moylan 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The step up is real for Logan Briggs
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market14 Jun 2027
Matthew Smith wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Exeter City hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Boardroom14 Jun 2027
Exeter City 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
Words at Exeter City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Max Thompson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Exeter City
Zak Jules and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Reece Cole 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.
In brief
- Market Exeter City promote Nathan Matthews from within
- Market One of our own: Christopher Wright joins the Exeter City first team
- Squad Jordan Willis stays put