Peterborough United

English League One
2 Mar 2027
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31 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Peterborough United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Peterborough United

Position 24 and 28 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Peterborough United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

The dugout

Abraham Rodriguez says Peterborough United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

No end in sight to Peterborough United's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Peterborough United has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Home is on Néstor Caicedo's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Peterborough United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Match

Lincoln City take the points off Peterborough United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

No hiding place for Josh Feeney

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

In brief

Back issues
30 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Rafael Milhorim asks to leave Peterborough United

“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.

The dugout

Rio Adébísí: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Peterborough United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A row about effort at Peterborough United

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

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

One of their own: Harry Leonard

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Vitinho

“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

Chris Conn-Clarke signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Chris Conn-Clarke and Peterborough United agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Declan Frith

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Harry Leonard

A mark of 7.63, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

29 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Vitinho 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 Peterborough United can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Declan Frith beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Ben Martino says Peterborough United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Néstor Caicedo 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 targets

Peterborough United rebuffed over Edvin Austbø

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

Squad

Harry Leonard 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Barnsley take the points off Peterborough United

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

Peterborough United rescue it on 85 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 85. Port Vale had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

The dugout

Harry Leonard 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

28 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Oliver Young has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Peterborough United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Market

Deian Verón 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 Peterborough United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Matthew Garbett signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matthew Garbett and Peterborough United agree another 3 years.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United rebuffed over Andrew Moran

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

Squad

A falling-out at Peterborough United

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Cian Hayes

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Peterborough United end the wait against Rotherham United

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match

Cian Hayes sends Peterborough United past Rotherham United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Cian Hayes’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Peterborough United.

In brief

27 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Peterborough United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Peterborough United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Peterborough United

Position 23 and 23 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

James Dornelly 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 Peterborough United can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Rafael Milhorim says Peterborough United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Peterborough United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Rafiki Saïd is a medical away from Peterborough United

The deal with Wolverhampton is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Match

No end in sight to Peterborough United's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Peterborough United has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Steve Seddon 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

26 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Peterborough United taken apart

2‑5 to AFC Wimbledon, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

Néstor Caicedo scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Cian Hayes asks to leave Peterborough United

“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.

The dugout

Deian Verón: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Peterborough United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alex Bass

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

7 goals as Peterborough United and AFC Wimbledon go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Peterborough United and AFC Wimbledon, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Imrân Louza

Peterborough United asked and Sunderland said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Rafael Milhorim wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Peterborough United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

25 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Peterborough United taken apart

0‑3 to Cardiff City, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

Both of them Deian Verón's — 8.16

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.16, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets

Kieran Dowell is a medical away from Peterborough United

The deal with Hull City is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Peterborough United sell Bradley Ihionvien for $660.0K

Bradley Ihionvien has left for Bristol Rovers in a $660.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Lucas Gourna-Douath

Peterborough United asked and Hull City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Peterborough United see off Exeter City

Three points for Peterborough United, 2‑1 the final word against Exeter City in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: Jordi Kuange

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tom Atcheson

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

In brief

24 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Deian Verón 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 Peterborough United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Alex Bass keeps Peterborough United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

No end in sight to Peterborough United's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Peterborough United has to find a result from somewhere.

Transfer targets

Owen Beck’s move to Peterborough United collapses on the table

Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Liverpool; Peterborough United go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.

Squad

A falling-out at Peterborough United

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

Squad

Harry Leonard stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Harry Leonard and Peterborough United agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Home is on Vitinho's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Peterborough United are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets

Middlesbrough tell Peterborough United: Mamadou Doumbia 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.

Loan watch

David Kamara counts the days

“I watch every Peterborough United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Charlton Athletic runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

23 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Peterborough United has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

Peterborough United are in real trouble now

Position 23, 19 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Ben Martino stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Bradley Ihionvien asks to leave Peterborough United

“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.

Market

Peterborough United turn down Walsall for Pemi Aderoju

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Real improvement from Jordi Kuange at Peterborough United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jordi Kuange is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

The wait goes on for Peterborough United

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

Néstor Caicedo wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Peterborough United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Néstor Caicedo 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.

In brief

22 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Reading take the points off Peterborough United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

Cian Hayes beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Peterborough United rescue it on 86 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Plymouth Argyle had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Néstor Caicedo

A mark of 7.98, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rafael Milhorim

“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.

Match

Peterborough United share the spoils with Plymouth Argyle

A 1‑1 draw with Plymouth Argyle leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Oliver Young: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

21 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alex Bass damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match

At last: Peterborough United win one

9 matches without a win, and then this, against Stevenage. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Squad

The step up is real for Pemi Aderoju

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Player ratings

One of those days for Néstor Caicedo

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

Néstor Caicedo sends Peterborough United past Stevenage

It finished 3‑1, and it was Néstor Caicedo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Peterborough United.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Steve Seddon 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Jordi Kuange

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

Jordi Kuange 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

20 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex Bass

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Peterborough United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

9 matches without a win for Peterborough United

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Peterborough United are no longer polite ones.

Match

A hiding for Peterborough United

Beaten 0‑3 by Wigan Athletic, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Vitinho

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

Boardroom

Doors closed at Peterborough United

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Loan watch

David Kamara wants to come home

“I did not go to Charlton Athletic to sit and watch. I want to come back to Peterborough United and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Oliver Young to a room that had heard them before.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

19 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alex Bass damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Anger at Peterborough United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match

No end in sight to Peterborough United's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Peterborough United has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Peterborough United

Position 22 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Néstor Caicedo 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Harry Leonard

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Blackpool take the points off Peterborough United

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tom Atcheson

“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

Kyrell Lisbie signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kyrell Lisbie and Peterborough United agree another 4 years.

In brief

18 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Alex Bass out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Peterborough United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

6 matches without a win for Peterborough United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Peterborough United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Néstor Caicedo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Steve Seddon 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.

Player ratings

Declan Frith was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Peterborough United come up short against Bradford City

Bradford City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Oliver Young faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Oliver Young after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

Peterborough United are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Deian Verón 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

17 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alex Bass out for 53 days

53 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Peterborough United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

The wait goes on for Peterborough United

5 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

Rafael Milhorim arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Rafael Milhorim has, at Peterborough United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Player ratings

Declan Frith beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Steve Seddon

“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

A falling-out at Peterborough United

Chris Conn-Clarke and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Peterborough United

Something was said to Josh Feeney and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Oliver Young: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

16 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alex Bass damages knee ligaments — 61 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A row about effort at Peterborough United

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

Squad

A falling-out at Peterborough United

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

Squad

Ethan Williams signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ethan Williams and Peterborough United agree another 5 years.

Loan watch

David Kamara wants to come home

“I did not go to Charlton Athletic to sit and watch. I want to come back to Peterborough United and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

Market

No place for Rio Adébísí in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Rio Adébísí has his answer from Peterborough United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Jacob Mendy 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

A promise honoured at Peterborough United

Something was said to Abraham Rodriguez and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout

Josh Feeney 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.

In brief

15 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Alex Bass out for 69 days

69 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Peterborough United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Peterborough United sink to position 22

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

4 matches without a win for Peterborough United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Peterborough United are no longer polite ones.

Match

Huddersfield Town take the points off Peterborough United

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Steve Seddon 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard 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.

Squad

Matthew Garbett stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matthew Garbett and Peterborough United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett in the eights

A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Oliver Young to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

14 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alex Bass damages knee ligaments — 76 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 76 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Peterborough United

A 0‑3 beating by Mansfield Town was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Squad

A move Jordi Kuange would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jordi Kuange is living that version at Peterborough United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Peterborough United come up short against Lincoln City

Lincoln City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Tom Atcheson

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Peterborough United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Peterborough United and Steve Seddon are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

13 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex Bass

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Peterborough United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Peterborough United caught on 89 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Barnsley scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Peterborough United and Barnsley take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rio Adébísí 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.

The dugout

Oliver Young on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oliver Young after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Néstor Caicedo has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

The dugout

Abraham Rodriguez is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Squad

Pemi Aderoju is off the mark for Peterborough United

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

12 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alex Bass damages knee ligaments — 90 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 90 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The drought breaks for Peterborough United

7 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Port Vale were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.

Match

Néstor Caicedo sends Peterborough United past Port Vale

It finished 2‑1, and it was Néstor Caicedo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Peterborough United.

The terraces

Peterborough United supporters have found a favourite in Harry Leonard

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Harry Leonard has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Néstor Caicedo

Marked 8.42 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Declan Frith was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Peterborough United keep their word to Lucien Mahovo

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Denis-Will Poha 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.

Squad

Costly mistake from Abraham Rodriguez

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Abraham Rodriguez knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

In brief

11 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alex Bass out for 97 days

97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Peterborough United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Real improvement from Pemi Aderoju at Peterborough United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pemi Aderoju is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words exchanged at Peterborough United

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Squad

Alex Bass stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Bass and Peterborough United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Carl Johnston is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Peterborough United has been clear about where Carl Johnston stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

No hiding place for Sam Hughes

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

Market

The Harry Leonard question follows Peterborough United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Harry Leonard’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Denis-Will Poha knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Denis-Will Poha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Tom Lees has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Tom Lees has written the date down.

In brief

10 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Peterborough United

7 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

The step up is real for Tom Atcheson

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Néstor Caicedo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Peterborough United come up short against Rotherham United

Rotherham United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Peterborough United

13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Oliver Young: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for James Dornelly

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. James Dornelly has come out of that comparison in the side, and Peterborough United have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

No hiding place for Denis-Will Poha

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

In brief

9 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Peterborough United

6 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

6 saves: Alex Bass was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings

Declan Frith was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Harry Leonard 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Peterborough United come up short against Wycombe Wanderers

Wycombe Wanderers left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Denis-Will Poha 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.

The dugout

Josh Feeney 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.

Match

Peterborough United share the spoils with Stockport County

A 1‑1 draw with Stockport County leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Oliver Young: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

8 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Peterborough United out

Out, 0‑0 to Grimsby Town, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Alex Bass is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Alex Bass: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match

4 matches without a win for Peterborough United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Peterborough United are no longer polite ones.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Peterborough United

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Player ratings

Matthew Garbett was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

A falling-out at Peterborough United

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

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Martin Lecolier

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis-Will Poha 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Deian Verón

“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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alex Bass stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Cian Hayes 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 Peterborough United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Peterborough United walk away from Matěj Jurásek

$1.1M was the most the club would pay and Norwich 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard 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.

Market

Eyes on Carl Johnston again

The phone has started ringing about Carl Johnston again, and this time the name on the line is Notts County. Peterborough United are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

The formation has left Denis-Will Poha behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Peterborough United will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad

Words at Peterborough United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rio Adébísí 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.

The dugout

Oliver Young on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Oliver Young after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match

Point won or two lost for Peterborough United?

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

In brief

6 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Sam Hughes 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 Peterborough United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 12 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Peterborough United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.1M for Matěj Jurásek

Peterborough United have gone to Norwich 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.

Boardroom

Peterborough United go back to the board over Matěj Jurásek

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Matěj Jurásek enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Sotiris Alexandropoulos turns down Peterborough United

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sporting CP keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United baulk at the price for Lucas Ness

Notts County wanted more than $220.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Max Dean

Peterborough United asked and KV Kortrijk said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Peterborough United and Steve Seddon are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Peterborough United

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

In brief

5 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Peterborough United taken apart

0‑3 to Cardiff City, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Bradley Ihionvien asks to leave Peterborough United

“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

A move Deian Verón would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Deian Verón is living that version at Peterborough United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Peterborough United say no — this time

The offer from Notts County for Carl Johnston was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

No deal for Kamarl Grant at that price

Peterborough United offered $340.0K; Millwall 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.

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United rebuffed over Dominic Hyam

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Steve Seddon

“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.

Boardroom

Inquest at Peterborough United

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

4 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Alex Bass

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Peterborough United leave it late against Exeter City

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Exeter City spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings

Harry Leonard scores twice — 8.87

Two goals and a mark of 8.87 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A brace, and Néstor Caicedo takes the afternoon — 8.47

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Néstor Caicedo provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

David Kamara asks to leave Peterborough United

“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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Umeh Emmanuel

Peterborough United asked and Zurich said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Peterborough United go back to the board over Kamarl Grant

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $350.4K — a club that wants Kamarl Grant enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United bid $340.0K for Kamarl Grant

The offer went to Millwall 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.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United bid $210.0K for Lucas Ness

The offer went to Notts County 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ephron Mason-Clark

Peterborough United asked and Coventry City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Fee done, terms next for Tom Atcheson

Peterborough United and Blackburn Rovers have settled on $190.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Squad

Words exchanged at Peterborough United

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Match

6 goals as Peterborough United and Luton Town go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Peterborough United and Luton Town, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

A move Martin Lecolier would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Martin Lecolier is living that version at Peterborough United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

Declan Frith’s goal not enough for Peterborough United

Declan Frith scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Luton Town, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Peterborough United

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.

Market

Peterborough United promote Adam Shaw from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Shaw 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

Peterborough United promote Stephen Taylor from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stephen Taylor 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Aris Thessaloniki tell Peterborough United: Tino Kadewere 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.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United bid $180.0K for Tom Atcheson

The offer went to Blackburn Rovers 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

Harry Leonard signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Harry Leonard commits to Peterborough United for another 4 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Peterborough United

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

Squad

Harry Leonard 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 Peterborough United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Still no ink between Peterborough United and Steve Seddon

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Peterborough United, another week without a signature from Steve Seddon.

Squad

6 new faces, and Peterborough United 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Brandon Khela

“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.

The dugout

Harry Leonard knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Harry Leonard trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

1 Edition

The Peterborough United Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Néstor Caicedo 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.

Transfer targets

Peterborough United rebuffed over Mark McGuinness

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

Squad

Tempers go at Peterborough United

Harry Leonard was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Liam Kelly signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Liam Kelly commits to Peterborough United for another 3 years.

Squad

No place for Néstor Caicedo in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Peterborough United 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 Peterborough United and Néstor Caicedo

“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

Peterborough United ask about Bahmed Deuff

A loan enquiry to FC Nantes: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Piet Scobel is in the works

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

The dugout

Harry Leonard 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.

In brief