“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christoph Klarer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Palmeiras have kept their man, and Birmingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
A loan enquiry to Charlton Athletic: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Luka Vušković has moved up it.
Freddie Marson 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
21 graduates, from a department now rated 11 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
Aston Villa watched Jay Stansfield again at the weekend, and this time they did not bother hiding it. Clubs only stop hiding when they want the price to start moving.
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Birmingham have had the benefit of it.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Birmingham told Anthony Elanga something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jay Stansfield is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Birmingham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
The dugoutDemarai Gray knocks on the manager's door
92 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Freddie Marson 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.
The dugout16 Apr 2029
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Paul Hughes, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Jay Stansfield has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Two goals and a mark of 9.52 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Birmingham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
11 goals in 20 games at Hamrun Spartans — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Birmingham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birmingham can pretend not to have heard.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jay Stansfield is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
Somebody watched every match in the division at the weekend and decided he was the best thing in any of them. A small honour, and most careers end without one.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Birmingham hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Birmingham has been clear about where Dael Fry stands, which is more than many ever get.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
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.
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Paul Hughes could afford to be generous.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birmingham can pretend not to have heard.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birmingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christoph Klarer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Birmingham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Grimsby Town in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Birmingham. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Birmingham, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birmingham can pretend not to have heard.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birmingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“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.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Paul Hughes kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Riquelme Thompson-Jones 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Demarai Gray trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Nobody at Birmingham 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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Birmingham will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Birmingham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christoph Klarer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jonathan Panzo is on it.
21 graduates, from a department now rated 11 out of 20. Nothing about the academy appears in a result, and nothing about the club’s future exists without it.
A 3‑0 win over Tranmere Rovers, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Birmingham will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.49 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Birmingham heard it as anything else.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christoph Klarer 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.
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wrexham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wrexham people have started saying his name in the past tense.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Wrexham can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Wrexham offered $240.0K; Sheffield Wednesday said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Birmingham paid $150.0K and Wrexham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
“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 Birmingham, and it is not being withdrawn.
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Birmingham have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Birmingham
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Birmingham offered $2.0M; Wrexham said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The offer went to Wrexham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Birmingham can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Leeds United have kept their man, and Birmingham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Rotherham United have accepted the money. What Birmingham do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birmingham can pretend not to have heard.
The offer went to Wrexham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Birmingham had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Cremonese, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Luciano Riveros 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.
The name of Alex Cochrane has come up in conversations Birmingham were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Birmingham, and both men came out saying it was fine.
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The chase for Ellery Balcombe ended with $4.0M changing hands and Brentford out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Wrexham had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Cremonese, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Wrexham have gone to Sheffield Wednesday with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Nathan Baxter 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.
“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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan Barnett 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.
In brief
The dugoutRyan Barnett knocks on the manager's door
The offer went to Wrexham this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Birmingham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Birmingham asked and Leeds United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Words at Birmingham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Taylor Gardner-Hickman 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.
“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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
11 new faces, and Birmingham 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.
The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The clubs have shaken hands with Brentford; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The offer from Watford for Ryan Longman was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“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 Wrexham, and it is not being withdrawn.
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Wrexham can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Wrexham offered $240.0K; Sheffield Wednesday said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The name of Josh Windass has come up in conversations Wrexham were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Jul 2028
Ryan Longman 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.
73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Wrexham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Wrexham have done the hard part with Portsmouth, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The offer went to Sheffield Wednesday this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fleetwood Town have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mikael Doka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Wrexham have paid $18.7M for Datro Fofana, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wrexham people have started saying his name in the past tense.
$8.7M was the most the club would pay and Tottenham were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The offer from Barrow AFC for Ryan Longman was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Wrexham and Huddersfield Town have settled on $660.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Derby County have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
132 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrel Hato 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.
Danny Ward 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.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nathan Baxter signs something — a contract at Wrexham or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
140 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Wrexham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Wrexham may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 May 2028
Jorrel Hato 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.
14 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
7 goals in 44 games at Huddersfield Town — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Wrexham updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Wrexham would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Position 15 on 59 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Nathan Baxter 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.
Squad1 May 2028
Jorrel Hato 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.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Josh Windass. 2‑1 against Burnley, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wrexham can pretend not to have heard.
Nathan Baxter and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrel Hato 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Wrexham can tell you which week it ends in.
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
In brief
The dugoutRyan Longman knocks on the manager's door
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorrel Hato was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wrexham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market27 Mar 2028
Wrexham may not be able to give Ronald what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Ronald wants continental football; whether Wrexham can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Millwall next, and one man in the Wrexham dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Nathan Baxter has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wrexham know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Wrexham. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorrel Hato was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A 1‑0 win over Blackburn Rovers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Danny Ward 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.
“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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Nicholas Barnes kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
“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 Wrexham, and it is not being withdrawn.
The offer from Barnet for Josh Windass was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Boca Juniors is saying, and nobody at Wrexham is enjoying the guessing.
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Wrexham can tell you which week it ends in.
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Callum Doyle, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrel Hato 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fulham have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wrexham can pretend not to have heard.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wrexham they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Jorrel Hato 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.
Add another name to the list: Barnet have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Josh Windass. The answer from Wrexham has not changed — yet.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Isaac Moran has, at Wrexham, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Wrexham asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kieffer Moore. 1‑0 against Bristol City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Broadhead 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.
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Nicholas Barnes on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Nobody at Wrexham is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
In brief
The dugoutIssa Kaboré knocks on the manager’s door
The offer from Sunderland for Danny Ward was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words at Wrexham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorrel Hato 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.
Seb Revan 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.
Wrexham ran out of time with Charlton Athletic. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Jorrel Hato 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.
Add another name to the list: Burnley have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Josh Windass. The answer from Wrexham has not changed — yet.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tottenham have kept their man, and Wrexham go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: George Thomason. 1‑0 against Preston, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nathan Broadhead was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.