The Walsall Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$1.6M settles it between the clubs for Modou Faal
Wrexham have accepted the money. What Walsall do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $400.0K for Louie Sibley
Walsall have gone to Oxford United 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Walsall
James Furlong 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Aaron Pressley signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aaron Pressley commits to Walsall for another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Walsall and Callum Burton
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Walsall, another week without a signature from Callum Burton.
Squad10 Aug 2026
6 new faces, and Walsall 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.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
A reunion for Callum Burton
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Chesterfield in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Roman Dixon asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad10 Aug 2026
James Furlong has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. James Furlong keeps the shirt for now, at Walsall's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
- Market 36 months and counting on Alex Pattison
- Market Walsall pick up Callum Burton for nothing
- Market Walsall borrow Luke Faxon