The Oxford United Herald
Squad30 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marselino Ferdinan
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oxford United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom30 Jul 2035
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Oxford United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market30 Jul 2035
Gillingham watching Leke Drake
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Oxford United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Oxford United
Tyler Goodrham 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.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Lorenzo Dellavalle has improved at 31, 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.
Squad30 Jul 2035
Max Sanders falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Market The Max Sanders question follows Oxford United around
- Market Simon Evans leaves for nothing