The Barrow AFC Post
Squad19 Aug 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Domenico Tortoriello
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Barrow AFC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout19 Aug 2030
Nico Valentine frozen out at Barrow AFC
This is not rotation. Nico Valentine has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Barrow AFC is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Sam Alabi will not be coming to Barrow AFC
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Newcastle United is saying, and nobody at Barrow AFC is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Door shut on Emmanuel Adegboyega
Barrow AFC 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.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Luca Martinazzi is a medical away from Barrow AFC
The deal with Walsall is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
A goal and an assist for Nico Valentine — 7.73
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.73 beside his name.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
6 academy graduates step up at Barrow AFC
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Aug 2030
A row about effort at Barrow AFC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Santiago Montaña was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Tempers go at Barrow AFC
Matthew Pennington 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.
In brief
- Market Eyes on Joe Quigley again
- Market One of our own: Liam Hamilton joins the Barrow AFC first team
- Market Anthony Wilson steps up from the Barrow AFC academy