The Chesterfield Courier
Market6 Jun 2033
Chesterfield turn down Cheltenham Town for Miqueas Pintos
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market6 Jun 2033
Blade Earley hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chesterfield can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Jun 2033
Jonny Pettitt is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Chesterfield is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Jun 2033
A move Robert Atkinson would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Robert Atkinson is living that version at Chesterfield, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets6 Jun 2033
Door shut on Oliwier Zych
Chesterfield asked and Sunderland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad6 Jun 2033
A row about effort at Chesterfield
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniil Knyazev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad6 Jun 2033
Enoch Kwame-Anson 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 Chesterfield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets6 Jun 2033
Chesterfield try to borrow Lisav Eissat
Nottingham Forest have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets6 Jun 2033
Chesterfield try to borrow Liam Matthews
Birmingham have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Squad A step back for Juan Felipe Hincapié at Chesterfield
- Market Chesterfield buy the years ahead of Robert Atkinson
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Juan Felipe Hincapié