Joe Wright

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
8 Oct 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Joe Wright

52 Edition

The Barnet Herald

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

140 days out for Jack Senior after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Barnet will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Transfer targets

An offer of $3.3M for Junior Tchamadeu

Barnet have gone to Stoke City 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.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ben Wilmot at that price

Barnet offered $960.0K; Stoke City 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.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Bade Aluko rejects the move

Barnet had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Leicester City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

An offer of $220.0K for Lewys Benjamin

Barnet have gone to Wolverhampton 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.

Squad

Words at Barnet training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Idris Kanu 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.

Squad

George Lloyd in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Barnet this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Kabongo Tshimanga 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.

The dugout

Joe Wright 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.

In brief

Back issues
50 Edition

The Barnet Herald

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Idris Kanu puts it in writing

“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 Barnet, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

An offer of $3.3M for Junior Tchamadeu

Barnet have gone to Stoke City 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.

Transfer targets

Barnet make their move for Ryan Longman

$840.0K on the table at Wrexham. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

Barnet baulk at the price for Tom Dele-Bashiru

Watford wanted more than $1.3M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Bade Aluko

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

Squad

A row about effort at Barnet

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Idris Kanu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Joe Wright out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Joe Wright, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

Emmanuel Osadebe 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.

The dugout

George Lloyd knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barnet, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

48 Edition

The Barnet Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Nikola Tavares 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 Barnet can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.3M for Tom Dele-Bashiru

Barnet have gone to Watford 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.2M for André Vidigal

Barnet have gone to Wycombe Wanderers 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.

Transfer targets

Barnet baulk at the price for Jonathan Macaulay

Watford wanted more than $32.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Queens Park Rangers tell Barnet: Harvey Vale 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Anthony Hartigan

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Hartigan, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Nikola Tavares knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Barnet, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Joe Wright placed on the list

Barnet have made Joe Wright available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

The manager makes Mark Shelton a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Barnet. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

46 Edition

The Barnet Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Joe Wright asks to leave Barnet

“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.

Squad

Real improvement from Trey Ogunsuyi at Barnet

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Trey Ogunsuyi is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Barnet bid $110.0K for Matthew Rowley

The offer went to Reading 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.

Squad

Barnet count the cost of losing Joe Wright

43 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

A row about effort at Barnet

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Idris Kanu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kabongo Tshimanga

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kabongo Tshimanga, and the manager let it.

Squad

No place for Frankie Runham in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Barnet are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Talks stall between Barnet and Jack Senior

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Joe Buršík is in the works

Barnet have made the call to Portsmouth. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

45 Edition

The Barnet Herald

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Barnet put Nicholas Moore on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Rhys Browne puts it in writing

“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 Barnet, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Harvey Vale due for a Barnet medical

Everything agreed with Queens Park Rangers, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Joe Wright signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joe Wright commits to Barnet for another 4 years.

Transfer targets

Barnet rebuffed over Carl Piergianni

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

Market

Idris Kanu told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Idris Kanu has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Barnet.

Squad

A falling-out at Barnet

George Lloyd and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Joe Wright

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Trey Ogunsuyi is a square peg at Barnet

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief