Jack Walker

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Cambridge United
15 Feb 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Jack Walker

469 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Manchester City tell Cambridge United: Amad 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.

Market

Andrew King 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 The request is on a desk at Cambridge United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jamie Grayson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jamie Grayson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cambridge United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Kosta Nedeljković is a medical away from Cambridge United

The deal with Stevenage is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Jack McGrath raises the bar for Cambridge United

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Cambridge United heard it as anything else.

Squad

Tempers go at Cambridge United

Jack McGrath 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Luca Fong

“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.

Squad

Johnson Amuzu 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.

Squad

Jack Walker out for 18 days

The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Jack Walker, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief