The Lincoln City Post
Squad23 Jul 2035
Clay Atkins damages knee ligaments — 105 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 105 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market23 Jul 2035
Terms done: George Graham is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Millwall waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lincoln City is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market23 Jul 2035
Paul Cook 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 The request is on a desk at Lincoln City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Lincoln City
Thomas Waddingham 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 targets23 Jul 2035
Manchester City tell Lincoln City: Federico Dimarco 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.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Words at Lincoln City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martín Szumik 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.
Market23 Jul 2035
Alexander Fisher steps up from the Lincoln City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Fisher has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market23 Jul 2035
Lincoln City promote Richard Allen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Richard Allen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad23 Jul 2035
Mark Hunter out for 20 days
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Mark Hunter, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
In brief
- Transfer targets Lincoln City try to borrow Andrei Coubiş
- Transfer targets Lincoln City try to borrow Ezra Mayers
- The dugout No hiding place for Calvin Boldewijn