The Colchester United Herald
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Colchester United go back to the board over Róbert Boženík
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.3M — a club that wants Róbert Boženík enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Cam Bragg turns down Colchester United
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Southampton keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Colchester United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mario Lezcano Morán 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Millwall tell Colchester United: Ra'ees Bangura-Williams 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mario Lezcano Morán is a square peg at Colchester United
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ben Perry stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ben Perry and Colchester United agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Colchester United
Thimothée Lo-Tutala and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Colchester United try to borrow Miguel Ángel Brau
Coventry City 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Colchester United bring in an old head
Mario Lezcano Morán is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market The clock runs on Jack Tucker's contract
- Market Colchester United and Makise Evans are talking past each other
- The dugout Ben Perry asks for a word with the manager