Michael Baidoo 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.
A 1‑0 win over Wigan Athletic, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brendan Galloway 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.
Marked 8.12 — 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.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Bradley Ibrahim did not need any: 7.77, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Plymouth Argyle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Yann Gérard 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.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Bradley Ibrahim 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.
Joe Ralls 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Baidoo 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.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
There were 89 minutes on the clock and Bradford City had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Plymouth Argyle did not stop to explain themselves.
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.
A 1‑0 win over Bradford City, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Michael Baidoo is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Plymouth Argyle have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
A season-long audition: Paris Saint-Germain still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Plymouth Argyle's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Joe Ralls 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lorent Tolaj 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.
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Plymouth Argyle 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Plymouth Argyle can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Plymouth Argyle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Plymouth Argyle know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Joe Ralls 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Baidoo 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.
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lincoln City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michael Baidoo and Plymouth Argyle agree another 5 years.
Joe Ralls 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Baidoo 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.
Christopher Cooper is 15, and Plymouth Argyle have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Lorent Tolaj 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 phone has started ringing about Ayman Benarous again, and this time the name on the line is Barrow AFC. Plymouth Argyle are listening politely and promising nothing.
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 manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joe Edwards has his answer from Plymouth Argyle; what he does with it is the next window’s story.