Kyle John

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Marked for Kyle John

23 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market4 Jan 2027

George Byers hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Port Vale can pretend not to have heard.

Match2 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Port Vale

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

The paperwork begins on Kieran Dowell

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Port Vale have done the hard part with Hull City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad4 Jan 2027

The step up is real for Joseph Williams

At 18 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Rui Costa 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 targets4 Jan 2027

Port Vale rebuffed over Imrân Louza

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

Squad4 Jan 2027

Appearance number 200 for Liam Gordon

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Port Vale

George Byers 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Kyle John told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kyle John has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Port Vale.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Sep 2026

Ben Amos is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Ben Amos: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match16 Sep 2026

Port Vale bow out of the cup

Exeter City go through and Port Vale go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Port Vale

Erik Sviatchenko was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tom Scragg is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Onel Hernández was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Rui Costa 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

Wycombe Wanderers take the points off Port Vale

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

The kick that got away from Andre Gray

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

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 1‑2 Michael Moore left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

6 Edition

The Port Vale Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Kyle John asks to leave Port Vale

“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

Window shuts: 7 in, 6 out at Port Vale

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

Barnet come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

The paperwork begins on Romelle Donovan

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Port Vale have done the hard part with Brentford, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Sagesse Yalala

At 21 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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Mohamed Touré

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

Squad7 Sep 2026

Bruno Moreira 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.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Bruno Moreira 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Port Vale

Nicholas Williams was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief