The Barnet Herald
Squad7 Jun 2032
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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
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.
Market7 Jun 2032
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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
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.
Squad7 Jun 2032
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.
Squad7 Jun 2032
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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2032
$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 targets7 Jun 2032
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
- Squad Jaydon Makhalira falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout No hiding place for Alfie Parsley
- Transfer targets Barnet try to borrow Ronaldo Herrera