The Northampton Town Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Fábio Tavares would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fábio Tavares is living that version at Northampton Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tyrese Fornah signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tyrese Fornah commits to Northampton Town for another 3 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Northampton Town rebuffed over Dominic Hyam
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Northampton Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Elliott Moore
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elliott Moore, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Fábio Tavares is a square peg at Northampton Town
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market10 Aug 2026
Northampton Town and Fábio Tavares 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
48 months and counting on Elliott List
Still no offer on the table, and Elliott List’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Conor McCarthy 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Northampton Town ask about Jay Robinson
A loan enquiry to Southampton: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout Tyrese Fornah knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead A reunion for Kyle McAdam
- Market Northampton Town bring in George Edmundson on loan