The Oldham Athletic Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kieron Morris
68 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Oldham Athletic lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market7 Sep 2026
Billy Waters asks to leave Oldham Athletic
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 0 out at Oldham Athletic
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
No thanks: Alfie Devine rejects the move
Oldham Athletic had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Preston, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Josh Landers
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Portsmouth tell Oldham Athletic: Jacob Farrell 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tom Conlon falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Oldham Athletic
Donervon Daniels 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between Oldham Athletic and Josh Hawkes
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
In brief
- The dugout Jake Caprice gets it from the manager
- Looking ahead Billy Waters faces his old club
- Market Oldham Athletic bring in Josh Landers on loan