The Sheffield Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Sunderland come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sheffield did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Louie Barry stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Louie Barry and Sheffield agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Max Lowe 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 Sheffield this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Sheffield training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louie Barry 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Sheffield and Nathaniel Chalobah
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Sheffield, another week without a signature from Nathaniel Chalobah.
Market10 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Jamal Lowe
Still no offer on the table, and Jamal Lowe’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
In brief
- Market Gui Siqueira is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Iké Ugbo asks for a word with the manager