Jake Bickerstaff

Striker - Cheltenham Town
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
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Marked for Jake Bickerstaff

2 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

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 targets

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Back issues
1 Edition

The Cheltenham Town Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andreas Weimann stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Weimann and Cheltenham Town agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

As if he never left: Kelsey Mooney returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Kelsey Mooney is a Cheltenham Town player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Transfer targets

An offer of $76.0K for Ben Wilson

Cheltenham Town have gone to Coventry 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

Walsall tell Cheltenham Town: Charlie Wragg 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.

Market

Talks stall between Cheltenham Town and Shaun McWilliams

“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

7 new faces, and Cheltenham 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.

Transfer targets

Cheltenham Town try to borrow Jaden Williams

Colchester United have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Nobody at Cheltenham Town has picked up the phone to Jake Bickerstaff

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

Andreas Weimann stands down from international duty

“26 caps is more than I ever expected, and it is time somebody else had them.” At 35 he is finished with his country and nowhere near finished with Cheltenham Town.

In brief