The Northampton Town Herald
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Ellis Iandolo 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. Ellis Iandolo is living that version at Northampton Town, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sam Hoskins has been here 10 seasons
430 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ross Fitzsimons signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ross Fitzsimons and Northampton Town agree another 2 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
Northampton Town and Ellis Iandolo 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Ross Fitzsimons's contract
24 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Northampton Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Conor McCarthy 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Northampton Town try to borrow George Edmundson
Middlesbrough have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Northampton Town ask about Louie Sibley
A loan enquiry to Oxford United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Jordan Willis in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jordan Willis has his answer from Northampton Town; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- The dugout Elliott Moore knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Northampton Town shop where it costs nothing