Thomas Carter

Left Forward - Notts County U18
21 Feb 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Thomas Carter

58 Edition

The Notts County Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Thomas Carter

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Notts County lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Jack Griffin agrees terms with Valletta

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Notts County people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

So close: Daniel Iversen’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ipswich Town moved on, Daniel Iversen reports back to Notts County, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Boardroom

Notts County close the window on a squad of their own making

33 in and 24 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Bradley Dack gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bradley Dack has just signed for Notts County, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Daniel Iversen 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 Notts County this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Martín Quiñonez at Notts County

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Martín Quiñonez is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel Russell

Notts County asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tarik Ibrahimagic

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

In brief

Back issues
57 Edition

The Notts County Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Thomas Carter damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

Joe Rothwell: 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.” Notts County have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Ipswich Town watching Daniel Iversen

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Notts County have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

A falling-out at Notts County

Tarik Ibrahimagic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Brentford tell Notts County: Antoni Milambo 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.

The dugout

Jodi Jones 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.

Squad

Manuel Bravo wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Notts County can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market

The Jack Griffin conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Valletta will make the call about Jack Griffin this week. Notts County have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

12 new faces, and Notts County are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief