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15th July: VALE START NEGOTIATIONS WITH LAMBO
Port Vale open negotiations with 17 year old FC Dallas Goalkeeper Josh Lambo for a deal believed to be around 20k
VALE COMPLETE 3RD SIGNING
Port Vale manager Daniel Oakes makes Ronnie Wallwork his 3rd signing on a 2 year deal for 2,300 a week.
17th July: OAKES CANCELS FRIENDLIES TO ARRANGE IRELAND TOUR
Vale boss Daniel Oakes has today cancelled four friendlies with West Ham, Huddersfield, Wigan and Bathgate Thistle and has arranged a 3 day tour to Ireland where the team will face off against Dundalk, Shamrock Rovers and Wexford on the 28th, 29th and 30th July respectively
18th July: 2ND GAME IN CHARGE GOES WELL FOR HORSFIELD
Port Vale trounce Whitburn 4-0 in Geoff Horsfield's second game in charge. Goals from new signing Wallwork, Dodds, Rob Taylor and Danny Glover gave Vale a comfortable win.
INJURY BLOW FOR VALE
John McCombe sustains a damaged elbow in game against Whitburn after falling heavily. The central defender will be out for 2-3 weeks and therefore may miss the first game of the season.
19th July: FIRST DEPARTURE AT VALE
Oakes gains 4,000 from the sale of Ross Davidson to Wrexham this afternoon. Oakes stated that the central midfielder is not the best at the club and would struggle to make the first team after latest signings and therefore thought that the 4,000 offer from the welsh dragons was too good to refuse.
20th July: SECOND SALE FROM VALE ANNOUNCED
Today Luke Prosser left the Vale to join Burton Albion in a deal worth around 4,000. He, like Davidson was not going to be first choice at Vale this season and therefore leaves the potteries side to pastures new.
VALE ANNOUNCE SHOCK 4TH SIGNING.................................
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Today Port Vale announced their 4th signing of the season. This was the signing of veteran 35 year old winger Gareth Ainsworth on a free transfer. Ainsworth is a former Valiant who played for Vale when they had a spell in The Championship under John Rudge exactly 10 years ago. The veteran is back at Vale after stints at Wimbledon, Cardiff and Q.P.R. One worry for Vale is that through his career this player has been very injury prone and this has cut his career short by 2 or so years.
23rd July: OAKES MISSES OUT ON LAMBO
For the first time this pre-season, Vale manager misses out on a signing in Josh Lambo as he rejects a move to the potteries club in favour of a transfer to Panathanaikos where he will recieve around 1,000 a week more than vale could offer him. It is probably the opportunity of European football that lured him to Greece.
3RD SALE BY VALE
Striker Luke Perry leaves the club on a deal wort around 6,000 as he joins Barnet. The striker believed that he would not be able to force his way into the first team at Vale Park this season and as a result of this has moved to Underhill to seek this.
25th July: Vale 'good price for promotion' states Foyle
Former Port Vale manager Martin Foyle stated that he believed that Port Vale's promotion odds of 5/1 were very reasonable. He went on to say that with a few good signings by Oakes, his team could well go up automatically.
VALE CONFIRM 6TH SIGNING
Today, Daniel Oakes confirmed central defender Alton Thelwell as Vale's 6th signing of the season. The defender is obviously a good player as he played for now premier league side Hull 2 years ago but then signed for Leyton Orient last year for a fee of 26,000 and is now Vale player.
OTHER NEWS
Vale also named their players squad numbers today with veteran winger Gareth Ainsworth gaining the elusive number 7 shirt
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VALE'S IRELAND TOUR ENDS IN SUCCESS
Port Vale's Ireland tour ended today with the Valiants achieving two wins in the three games played.
28th July: Dundalk 1-2 Port Vale
Vale started off just favourites for this game and justified this with a narrow victory over Dundalk. Goals from Horsfield and Dodds gave Vale a 2-0 lead before McGrath secured a consolation goal for Dundalk on 57 minutes
29th July: Shamrock Rovers 3-3 Port Vale
The toughest test for Vale on this tour proved to be so. Shamrock were stubborn from the start and succeeding in taking the lead on 12 minutes. They doubled their lead on 16 minutes and went 2-0 up. They stretched to 3-0 on 20 minutes but even this was not enough to put away the Vale. Vale battled away and got to half time 3-2 down. On 61 minutes thelwell made it 3-3 and this was the last goal of the match. The Valiants lived up to their namesake this afternoon.
30th July: Wexford 0-3 Port Vale
Vale's unbeaten run went on this evening as they succeeded in a mini demolition of Wexford youths. This match saw the pre-season debuts of stephen thompson and doug loft and they did not disappoint as loft scored 1 and thompson scored a brace to help vale to an easy victory.
30th July: VALE ANNOUNCE LINKS WITH MANCHESTER UNITED AND LEEK
Port Vale fans were delighted today as it was announced that they had a new parent club in English Giants Manchester United. Port Vale will make great use of this facility as they will be able to loan players from united for no wages and also receive an annual fee from the club. They also announced a link with Leek as their feeder club where they will be able to send their youngsters and reserves out on loan to get more first team experience.
1st August- TWO VALE MEN SIGN NEW DEALS
Today, Dave Brammer and Joe anyon both signed new contract extensions with the potteries club. Brammer extended his deal by one yar and Anyon signed a lucrative 3 year deal with the club.
Also, Vale confirmed a friendly with rivals Chasetown for the 3rd August. Vale will desperately want to win this to avenge their defeat to Chasetown last year in the league cup.
3rd August: Chasetown 1-3 Port Vale
Goals from Horsfield, Wallwork and Glover saw Vale through a relatively comfortable friendly win over local rivals Chasetown. Vale will desperately want to carry this devastating form on to the Coca Cola League 2 season.
4th August: MAN UTD DUO JOIN VALIANTS ON LOAN
Defender Craig Cathcart and Goalkeeper Ron-Robert Zieler joined Vale today on loan deals until the end of the season. These two will be a vital part for Vale's hopes to go up from League 2
AINSWORTH NAMED CAPTAIN FOR NEW SEASON
New signing Gareth Ainsworth is given the Port Vale captaincy this season ahead of last years captain Sam Stockley. Ainsworth stated he was delighted to be wearing the armband and Stockley was still happy although being dropped to vice-captain.
OTHER NEWS
EDWARDS SIGNS NEW DEAL
7th August- PIDGELEY SIGNS CONTRACT WITH VALE
Today Vale announced the signing of former Chelsea stopper Lenny Pidgeley. This signing is likely to be backup to Anyon and Zieler at Vale Park this season
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