The Milton Keynes Dons Herald
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A brace, and Kacey Wooster takes the afternoon — 8.20
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kacey Wooster provided it, and the 8.20 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market19 Mar 2029
Only the photograph left for Juan Cruz Oltmann
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Cruz Oltmann will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Milton Keynes Dons the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Mar 2029
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Ellis Iandolo
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Milton Keynes Dons will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Samuel Silvera 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.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Words exchanged at Milton Keynes Dons
Curtis Nelson 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.
The terraces19 Mar 2029
One of their own: Kacey Wooster
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match17 Mar 2029
Kacey Wooster the difference as Milton Keynes Dons beat Rotherham United
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kacey Wooster. 2‑0 against Rotherham United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
No hiding place for Curtis Nelson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Curtis Nelson, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Mar 2029
The team sheet said everything about Samir Haribou
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Samir Haribou.
In brief
- Player ratings Samuel Silvera beats them one at a time
- Squad Simon Scott signs a new deal
- The dugout The manager’s verdict