The Salford City Gazette
Market25 Jun 2035
Devonte Ferguson agrees terms with Nottingham Forest
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Salford City people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market25 Jun 2035
Alec Van Hoorenbeeck 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 The request is on a desk at Salford City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
An offer of $3.1M for Evan Diamalunda
Salford City have gone to Exeter City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Too dear: Salford City walk away from Mateo Arrieta
$2.4M was the most the club would pay and Manchester United 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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
Milton Keynes Dons tell Salford City: Daniel Barnes 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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Words at Salford City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonny Scriven is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout25 Jun 2035
The manager makes an example of Jonny Scriven
“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.
Squad25 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Salford City
Dario Bisengambi 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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2035
A loan move for Sam Alker is in the works
Salford City have made the call to Ipswich Town. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Squad Christopher Turner signs a new deal
- Market William Okine runs his contract down
- The dugout Gabriel Lainez asks for a word with the manager