The Tranmere Rovers Gazette
Squad28 Jan 2030
Sibongiseni Ngcobo damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets28 Jan 2030
Tranmere Rovers make their move for Cameron Byrne-Hughes
$970.0K on the table at Reading. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings28 Jan 2030
Nobody could get near Kyle Hurst
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets28 Jan 2030
Birmingham tell Tranmere Rovers: Ben Cisse is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad28 Jan 2030
Yassine Boujouama 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.
Squad28 Jan 2030
Bradley Grant 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 Tranmere Rovers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Jan 2030
Accrington Stanley take the points off Tranmere Rovers
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Jan 2030
Tranmere Rovers count the cost of losing Jack Cunningham
32 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout28 Jan 2030
The manager makes an example of Kyle Hurst
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Looking ahead A reunion for George Nurse
- The dugout Luka Ivan Skoko knocks on the manager's door