Ryan Graydon

Striker - Salford City
5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ryan Graydon

10 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Salford City

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Woody Williamson 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ryan Graydon 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.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Kallum Cesay's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad

Kallum Cesay dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Point won or two lost for Salford City?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Crewe Alexandra? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Filozofe Mabete is a Salford City player

The fee is $260.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Swindon Town drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Boardroom

3 academy players handed senior numbers at Salford City

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Luke Garbutt 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Salford City come up short against Newport County

Newport County left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Richard Dixon steps up from the Salford City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Dixon has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Salford City promote Jason Clark from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jason Clark has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Salford City promote Joshua Martin from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joshua Martin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

No hiding place for Luke Garbutt

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

Player ratings

Kadeem Harris runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Salford City training over how hard people work
  • Squad 5 new faces, and Salford City are still learning each other
  • Boardroom Salford City turn down the training-ground plan
2 Edition

The Salford City Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Michael Rose signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Rose commits to Salford City for another 3 years.

Squad

Mark Howard 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 Salford City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ryan Graydon

“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.

Market

48 months and counting on Daniel Udoh

Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Udoh’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Market

Talks stall between Salford City and Mark Howard

“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.

Squad

Adebola Oluwo 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.

In brief