The Preston Chronicle
Squad10 Sep 2029
Oleksandr Hladkov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Oleksandr Hladkov has just signed for Preston, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Words at Preston training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yang Min-Hyeok 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.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Tempers go at Preston
Ali McCann 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.
Transfer targets10 Sep 2029
Door shut on Dilane Bakwa
Preston asked and Nottingham Forest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout10 Sep 2029
No hiding place for Pedro Álvaro
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Álvaro, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Sep 2029
14 new faces, and Preston 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.
Loan watch10 Sep 2029
Jacob Vickers wants to come home
“I did not go to Derby County to sit and watch. I want to come back to Preston and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Market10 Sep 2029
A long bet from Preston on Christopher Walker
He is 18, and nobody at Preston signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market10 Sep 2029
K'Marni Miller is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Preston has been clear about where K'Marni Miller stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- The dugout Thierry Small knocks on the manager's door
- Market Talks stall between Preston and Millar Matthews-Lewis
- Market The Harry Clarke story refuses to die