The Exeter City Courier
Market2 Jul 2029
Idris Odutayo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Exeter City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market2 Jul 2029
Only the photograph left for Malachi Sharpe
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Malachi Sharpe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Exeter City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Malachi Sharpe signs for Lincoln City while still at Exeter City
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Malachi Sharpe has agreed terms with Lincoln City for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Words exchanged at Exeter City
Tudor Mendel-Idowu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Too dear: Exeter City walk away from Bobby Wales
$210.0K was the most the club would pay and Swansea City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market2 Jul 2029
Exeter City sell Tommy Pilling for $350.0K
Tommy Pilling has left for Millwall in a $350.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Pep Chavarría 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.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
Jack Fitzwater frozen out at Exeter City
This is not rotation. Jack Fitzwater has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Exeter City is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Stoke City tell Exeter City: Jerry Yates 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.
In brief
- Squad Exeter City lose Liam Oakes
- Squad Exeter City count the cost of losing Mark Brown
- Transfer targets A loan move for Rafael Melo is in the works