Ryan Leonard

Left Back - Millwall
31 Jan 2027
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The Millwall Post

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Millwall

0‑4 against Watford, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

The wait goes on for Millwall

8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Lukas Jensen stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

The goals have deserted Millwall

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Millwall can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Words at Millwall training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sydie Peck 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Millwall dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Henry Bennett to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Mark Sykes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ryan Leonard

“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.

In brief

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The Millwall Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

10 saves: Lukas Jensen was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Danny McNamara turns Grimsby Town down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Millwall rebuffed over Jay Robinson

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and Millwall go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Ryan Leonard 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 Millwall, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Dan Scarr’s move to Millwall collapses on the table

Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Wrexham; Millwall go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.

Squad

Tempers go at Millwall

Mark Sykes 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 terraces

$11.5M for Fraser Hornby, and Millwall supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Fraser Hornby from Darmstadt 98 for $11.5M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Market

Fraser Hornby joins Millwall to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Millwall have gone and got theirs early.

Match

Millwall come up short against Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

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The Millwall Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

11 seasons of Danny McNamara

205 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Millwall know what they have.

Squad

Mark Sykes stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mark Sykes and Millwall agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Millwall

Barry Bannan 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.

Transfer targets

Millwall rebuffed over Mateo Gonzalez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cortulua have kept their man, and Millwall go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Bolton Wanderers join the queue for Ra'ees Bangura-Williams

Add another name to the list: Bolton Wanderers have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ra'ees Bangura-Williams. The answer from Millwall has not changed — yet.

Squad

Camiel Neghli wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Millwall can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief