The Oxford United Herald
Squad23 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marselino Ferdinan
49 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Oxford United
Mark Harris 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Robert Bell is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Tyler Goodrham 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.
Boardroom23 Jul 2035
Oxford United beat the market to Marco Martoccia from Plymouth Argyle
Plymouth Argyle will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Marco Martoccia has pre-agreed a move to Oxford United, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Market23 Jul 2035
The Hidde ter Avest question follows Oxford United around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Hidde ter Avest’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Oxford United shop where it costs nothing
- Market Oxford United pick up Luken Herrera for nothing
- Market Oxford United shop where it costs nothing
- Boardroom Oxford United keep producing them