RETAINED LIST 2025

Following the conclusion of the 2024/25 season and the appointment of Sam Cox as our new manager, we are pleased to announce the retained list for our First Team squad.

Enzio Boldewijn, Jack Cook, Max Kretzschmar and Sean Adarkwa are confirmed to be under contract for the 2025/26 season.

Furthermore, we have successfully secured new contracts with Dante Baptiste and Jeffrey Sekyere who have all signed on for the new season.

The club has also exercised the option to extend the contracts of Mason Barrett, Deon Woodman, Christian Scott and Dominic Hutchinson for another year.

Discussions are currently ongoing with Craig Eastmond, Jacob Adams, Will Randall, Anthony Georgiou, Adrian Mariappa, Josh Grant, Jaydn Mundle-Smith, Tobi Omole, Jed Brown and Micah Obiero. We will provide further updates once conversations have taken place with new manager Sam Cox.

We have been unable to agree new terms with or released Alex Dyer, Mustapha Carayol  and Archie Matthews and these players have left the club. We offer our sincere thanks for their efforts in a Stones shirt and wish them every success in their future endeavours. A very special thank you to Alex Dyer for his long service to the Stones across 2 spells. Initially joining the club in 2010 under Gordon Bartlett in the Isthmian League, Alex made his debut on the 20th August v Carshalton Athletic and spent 3 years at the club before embarking on a period in his career that would take him to Sweden to play professional football including a spell working with Graham Potter.

Alex returned to The Vale in 2020 for our first season back in The National League and has amassed 299 appearances for the club scoring 33 goals, as well as 1 game as interim Manager following the departure of Stuart Maynard to Notts County. Alex’s impact at the club has been significant, a hugely popular figure with players, staff and supporters and he will be missed. We wish him every success for the future and hope to see him back at The Vale.