The Fleetwood Town Post
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fleetwood Town bid $5.5M for Will Lankshear
The offer went to Middlesbrough 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Gideon Kodua
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Fleetwood Town have done the hard part with Luton Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rhys Bennett stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rhys Bennett and Fleetwood Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hull City tell Fleetwood Town: Jens Hjertø-Dahl is not for sale
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Fleetwood Town
Rhys Bennett 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The formation has left Reece Cole behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Fleetwood Town will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Fleetwood Town and Reece Cole
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fleetwood Town, another week without a signature from Reece Cole.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Fleetwood Town ask about Mahamadou Sangaré
A loan enquiry to Manchester City: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 new faces, and Fleetwood Town 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.
In brief
- Looking ahead Finley Potter faces his old club
- The dugout Rhys Bennett knocks on the manager's door
- Market 36 months and counting on Elliot Bonds