Anthony Bennett

Goalkeeper - Burton Albion
31 Oct 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Anthony Bennett

307 Edition

The Burton Albion Sentinel

14 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Gianfranco Livia 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 Burton Albion can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Lucas Costa says Burton Albion went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Anthony Morgan

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Burton Albion have done the hard part with Luton Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Burton Albion sell Arthur Parker for $690.0K

Arthur Parker has left for Wrexham in a $690.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Tempers go at Burton Albion

Víctor Cumpa 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.

Squad

Volodymyr Shvets gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Volodymyr Shvets has just signed for Burton Albion, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Business is business: Edward Lake goes

Charlton Athletic paid $290.0K and Burton Albion took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Burton Albion dugout

13 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Transfer targets

Burton Albion rebuffed over Alfie Kilgour

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brentford have kept their man, and Burton Albion go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
307 Edition

The Wrexham Courier

14 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Stanley Mills 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 Wrexham can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Joel Orlando: 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.” Wrexham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Terms done: Morgan Mokotjo is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Tranmere Rovers waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Wrexham is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

$990.0K settles it between the clubs for Nathan Bishop

AFC Wimbledon have accepted the money. What Wrexham do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Wrexham make their move for Mthobisi Zondo

$1.2M on the table at Coventry City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Arthur Parker is a Wrexham player

The fee is $690.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Burton Albion drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

A falling-out at Wrexham

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

Squad

Julián Bragado arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Julián Bragado has, at Wrexham, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Business is business: Anthony Bennett goes

Burton Albion paid $320.0K and Wrexham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief