Sam Sherring

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The Milton Keynes Dons Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near William Osula

Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Sam Sherring 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 The request is on a desk at Milton Keynes Dons, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Aaron Collins 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 Milton Keynes Dons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Alex Gilbey 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Milton Keynes Dons 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Charlie Setford dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

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Back issues
2 Edition

The Milton Keynes Dons Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Bolton Wanderers come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Milton Keynes Dons did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Aaron Collins signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aaron Collins commits to Milton Keynes Dons for another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Aaron Collins 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 Milton Keynes Dons this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ben Wiles

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Jay Matete's contract

48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Loan watch10 Aug 2026

Zachery White counts the days

“I watch every Milton Keynes Dons game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Manchester City runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief