The Crawley Town Courier
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$450.0K settles it between the clubs for Tom Norcott
Reading have accepted the money. What Crawley Town do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market7 Sep 2026
Louie Watson asks to leave Crawley Town
“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
Deadline passes with 18 signed and 6 gone
That is the business done at Crawley Town until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Monaco tell Crawley Town: Romaric Etonde 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Harry Griffiths deal
Crawley Town ran out of time with Notts County. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Latta N'Dabrou
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Justin Ferizaj 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
Akin Odimayo is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Akin Odimayo has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Louis Page makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Squad Latta N'Dabrou wants out of the dugout
- The dugout Jonny Russell knocks on the manager's door
- Market The window shut and Dion Conroy is still in the building