Robert Green

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
25 Oct 2032
Monday
Process

Marked for Robert Green

306 Edition

The Barnet Herald

7 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Robert Green damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.

Boardroom

Barnet spell it out for Interim Coach

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom

Emergency meeting at Barnet

The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.

Market

Tate Xavier-Jones is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Barnet is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Barnet to lose Tate Xavier-Jones for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Tate Xavier-Jones has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad

Sam Hornby signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sam Hornby commits to Barnet for another 2 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at Barnet

Anthony Hartigan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

$223.3K from the owner keeps Barnet afloat

The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.

Transfer targets

Barnet rebuffed over Alexander Atkinson

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

In brief

Back issues
277 Edition

The Barnet Herald

17 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Sebastian Schøt wants to go home

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alfie Parsley

“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.

Market

Stanisław Kaptur is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Barnet has been clear about where Stanisław Kaptur stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

When it matters, Anthony Hartigan 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Barnet

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

The dugout

Niccolò Giva 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 Barnet, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Kabongo Tshimanga question follows Barnet around

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

Market

Barnet and Harry Spencer are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

A door opens for Joseph Kandala

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

270 Edition

The Barnet Herald

29 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

7 matches without a win for Barnet

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Barnet are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A row about effort at Barnet

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Alfie Parsley

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

Squad

7 new faces, and Barnet 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.

The dugout

Interim Coach: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Player ratings

Ryan Glover beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Barnet

Something was said to Stanisław Kaptur and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Match

Point won or two lost for Barnet?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Cambridge United? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

The dugout

Alfie Parsley does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief