The Crewe Alexandra Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Connor Ogilvie gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Connor Ogilvie has just signed for Crewe Alexandra, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Crewe Alexandra count the cost of losing Conor Thomas
45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Connor Ogilvie in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Crewe Alexandra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Connor Ogilvie has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Crewe Alexandra know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Crewe Alexandra and Jacopo Sassi are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at Crewe Alexandra has picked up the phone to Josh March
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
- Market Jack Powell is free to find somewhere else
- Market Jacopo Sassi joins Crewe Alexandra on a free