The Port Vale Herald
Market21 Jul 2031
Rhys Walters asks to leave Port Vale
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Jul 2031
The step up is real for Oliver Pickles
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market21 Jul 2031
Only the photograph left for Kien Connolly
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kien Connolly will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Port Vale the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Niko Ivanković turns down Port Vale
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Koper keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Erik Sviatchenko 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 Port Vale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle John is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market21 Jul 2031
Edward Lake attracts admirers
The name of Edward Lake has come up in conversations Port Vale were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad21 Jul 2031
Marvin Owen has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets21 Jul 2031
Port Vale try to borrow Fletcher Holman
Swindon Town have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets Port Vale ask about Didier Masson
- The dugout No hiding place for Thomas Hojlund
- Market Rhys Walters linked with a move away