Omar Bogle

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Free Agent
16 Mar 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Omar Bogle

24 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Tatsuki Seko is a medical away from Crewe Alexandra

The deal with Stoke City 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

Omar Bogle asks to leave Crewe Alexandra

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Rocco Vata

Crewe Alexandra asked and Watford said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Tom Booth is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Jahmari Lindsay gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jahmari Lindsay has just signed for Crewe Alexandra, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Harrison Parker rejects the move

Crewe Alexandra had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Manchester City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Boardroom

Crewe Alexandra beat the market to Joe Wormleighton from Northampton Town

Northampton Town will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Joe Wormleighton has pre-agreed a move to Crewe Alexandra, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Valero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Charlie McNeill sends Crewe Alexandra past Notts County

It finished 2‑1, and it was Charlie McNeill’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Crewe Alexandra.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Reece Hutchinson delivers — 7.79

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Reece Hutchinson scored, was marked 7.79, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match

The wait goes on for Crewe Alexandra

4 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

Tempers go at Crewe Alexandra

David Valero 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.

Squad

Iago Scott-Abel is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match

A bad afternoon for Crewe Alexandra against Bromley

1‑2 to Bromley, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Time is catching up with Luis Carbajal

Everybody at Crewe Alexandra saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 39 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.

The dugout

Joshua Hawkins: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Tom Booth gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Kaide Gordon moves up the pecking order

Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Crewe Alexandra than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.

In brief

5 Edition

The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Omar Bogle 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 Crewe Alexandra, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Tom King is a medical away from Crewe Alexandra

The deal with Everton 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Layton Love

Crewe Alexandra asked and West Bromwich Albion said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Crewe Alexandra

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and David Valero was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Tom Booth

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

AJ Bridge is a square peg at Crewe Alexandra

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Crewe Alexandra

Matúš Holíček 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.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Joshua Hawkins on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Ian Lawlor

“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