Sam Hart

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53 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Port Vale

Pelle Mattsson 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.

Market2 Aug 2027

Jayden Stockley moves on

Barnsley pay $220.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Yang Min-Hyeok 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.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

Door shut on Mamadou Doumbia

Port Vale asked and Middlesbrough said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market2 Aug 2027

Eyes on Nicholas Williams again

The phone has started ringing about Nicholas Williams again, and this time the name on the line is Accrington Stanley. Port Vale are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad2 Aug 2027

This league is too small for Pelle Mattsson

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Port Vale will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Squad2 Aug 2027

9 new faces, and Port Vale are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Transfer targets2 Aug 2027

A loan move for Charlie Setford is in the works

Port Vale have made the call to Ajax. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Sam Hart 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.

In brief

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46 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Jun 2027

The knee: Jayden Stockley out for 146 days

146 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Port Vale lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market14 Jun 2027

Sam Hart puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Port Vale, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Door shut on Demarai Gray

Port Vale asked and Birmingham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad14 Jun 2027

The step up is real for Tom Scragg

At 22 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words at Port Vale training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyle John 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.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Liam Gordon 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.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Port Vale

Nicholas Williams 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.

Market14 Jun 2027

The George Hall question follows Port Vale around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with George Hall’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Rico Richards has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Port Vale will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

29 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at Port Vale

Erik Sviatchenko 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.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

Port Vale rebuffed over Bosun Lawal

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stoke City have kept their man, and Port Vale go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match13 Feb 2027

Mansfield Town take the points off Port Vale

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Cameron Humphreys

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cameron Humphreys, and the manager let it.

Match9 Feb 2027

Peterborough United snatch it back from Port Vale

A goal on 85 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Michael Moore left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Roan Veenbrink signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roan Veenbrink commits to Port Vale for another 4 years.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Onel Hernández is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Match9 Feb 2027

Honours even between Port Vale and Peterborough United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief