The Cheltenham Town Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
George Maris gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. George Maris has just signed for Cheltenham Town, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
George Maris 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 Cheltenham Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Cheltenham Town walk away from Ben Wilson
$110.0K was the most the club would pay and Coventry City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cheltenham Town rebuffed over Marcus Bettinelli
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Manchester City have kept their man, and Cheltenham Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cheltenham Town promote Jonathan Allen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonathan Allen 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cheltenham Town promote Samuel Murray from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Murray 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cheltenham Town promote Christopher Graham from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher Graham 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Benjamin Cunningham joins the Cheltenham Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benjamin Cunningham is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alfie Marriott signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alfie Marriott commits to Cheltenham Town for another 4 years.
In brief
- Looking ahead Jake Bickerstaff faces his old club
- Squad Somebody is after Andreas Weimann’s shirt
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Accrington Stanley at home