Simon Bailey

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Grimsby Town U20
25 Jun 2034
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The Grimsby Town Herald

18 Jul 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Håkon Vold Krohg asks to leave Grimsby Town

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Joe Gauci rejects the move

Grimsby Town had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Crystal Palace, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Market

Grimsby Town turn down Preston for Borna Buljan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Only the photograph left for Njabulo Hlongwane

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Njabulo Hlongwane will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Grimsby Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Ryan Oné 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 Grimsby Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Grimsby Town

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Oliwier Zych

Grimsby Town asked and Cardiff City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Simon Bailey pulls a muscle — 14 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Víctor Muñoz is in the works

Grimsby Town have made the call to Liverpool. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief