The Barnet Herald
Market31 Aug 2026
Oli Hawkins asks to leave Barnet
“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 targets31 Aug 2026
Kaide Gordon due for a Barnet medical
Everything agreed with Liverpool, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Louis Page turns down Barnet
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Leicester City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Leo Duru
Barnet asked and Blackburn Rovers said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Barnet against Tranmere Rovers
0‑1 to Tranmere Rovers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Benjamin Atkinson to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Jay Robinson is in the works
Barnet have made the call to Southampton. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Tyler Walker
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tyler Walker, and the manager let it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Barnet pick somebody else ahead of Rhys Browne
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Player ratings Ronan Coughlan keeps on missing
- The dugout Ben Winterburn does not fit this one
- Squad Nnamdi Ofoborh says his piece