The Salford City Gazette
Squad21 Sep 2026
Fabio Borini damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Match16 Sep 2026
Salford City bow out of the cup
Charlton Athletic go through and Salford City go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match19 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Salford City
7 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Kadeem Harris
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Salford City
Luke Garbutt 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Salford City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Woodburn 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yannick Häringer 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One moment undoes Oliver Turton
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Luke Garbutt
7.34, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Salford City had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Match Salford City draw a blank against Oldham Athletic
- Player ratings Cole Stockton changes it off the bench
- Market Mackenzie Chapman placed on the list