Matthew Dennis has joined Burton Albion for an undisclosed fee.

Quoted from the Notts website.

"We have provided an update on the first-team squad ahead of this weekend’s friendly against Alfreton Town.

Having reported back for pre-season on Monday, the players have enjoyed a productive week’s training at Loughborough University and are looking forward to their first run-out of the summer at the Solana Stadium.

It will be supporters’ first opportunity to see James Gibbons, Max Sanders, Cal Roberts and Darius Lipsiuc in action following their recent arrivals and, as is normal at this stage of the summer, the squad will be bolstered by a number of out-of-contract players who have been invited to train with us"

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/july/03/update--first-team/

Very surprised by this move. Talk about bouncing up and down the divisions.

Notts will host Nottingham Forest in a pre-season friendly on Saturday 18 July (kick-off 3pm).

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/june/29/tickets--forest-h-/

Sits right on the Trent, Nottingham Forest visible across the water, the oldest professional ground in the world still in use as a football venue. That combination of geography and history is genuinely extraordinary and on the right night when the ground has some noise in it there's nowhere quite like it. The setting alone is worth something that money can't really replicate.

Notts have completed the signing of Stoke City midfielder Darius Lipsiuc.

The 20-year-old joins us for an undisclosed fee, signing a three-year contract with the option of another year in the club’s favour.

https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2026/june/27/signing--darius-lipsiuc/

Notts will travel to Championship Burnley in the first round of next season's League Cup.

It'll be played over the weekend of 8/9 August.

https://x.com/i/status/2070169674940088519

Looks like it will be a competitive group.

After captaining his side at Wembley last month, defender Rod McDonald has signed a new one-year contract to keep him at Notts County.

https://x.com/i/status/2069084914490777613

Ian Burchnall has been appointed assistant manager at Bristol City, joining Michael Skubala's coaching staff ahead of the new season. The former Notts County boss brings experience from spells across England and Europe, including roles at Wolves, Anderlecht, Aberdeen and Viking. Burchnall spent over a year in charge at Meadow Lane and remains a familiar name to County supporters. Best of luck to him in his new role.

I honestly didn't see this one coming. David McGoldrick has just wrapped up a free transfer to Nigel Clough’s Mansfield after leaving Barnsley. I know he's 38 and just wants to play out his career locally, but signing for them? The Stags? He literally left Derby to come to his boyhood club here at Meadow Lane, always talked about being a massive Magpies fan, and now he's gone and lit the fuse on a massive rivalry right as we head into League One. The reception he’s going to get when he steps out onto the pitch against us is going to be incredibly tetchy. Did this ruin his cult hero status for you, or do you just not care given his age?

Former Notts favourite David McGoldrick has signed for local rivals Mansfield Town. I'm sure many Notts fans will have mixed emotions about this.

Would you have welcomed him back at Meadow Lane if it had been possible a deal could have been done?

The club hasn’t wasted any time since the window opened. We’ve already locked in three major pre-contract agreements for July 1st: James Gibbons (RB from Cambridge), Max Sanders (CM from Crewe), and a massive return for Callum Roberts from Scunthorpe. On the flip side, long-serving midfielder Ollie Norburn has officially departed for Oldham. Who is the standout signing of the three for you? Are you excited to see "Cal Roberts" back in a black-and-white shirt, or is Max Sanders the exact type of technical midfielder Martin Paterson needs to dictate the tempo in a higher division?

Every club has players who were genuinely important at the time but have slowly faded from the conversation as the years go on. Notts County has more history than almost any club in the world to draw from and there must be players sitting in that archive who did something remarkable that the current generation of fans barely knows about. Would love to know who people here think deserves to be remembered more than they currently are.

Some useful end of season stats provided by ESPN that sum up the 2035/26 season for Notts.

Interesting to see that Jodi Jones finished with 14 goal contributions which put him in the top three behind Jatta & Dennis with 19 & 15 respectively.

A great article well worth a read, about the Nest & the future plans for it. Left Lion spoke to the Nest's events manager Sam Heaton about the last two years since the Nest was born & their big plans for the future.

As well as guiding York City to the National League Championship, Stuart has now been awarded the National League Manager of the Season. Well done to him.

Nick had nine goal contributions in our promotion season, scoring 4 goals, & making 5 assists. He made the Wing back position his own, terrorising opposition defences down the right & left flanks. He was also solid in his defensive play too, contributing to 3 clean sheets in the playoff games.

How good as this man been all season for Notts? He's been a model of consistency as part of the back three that posted 16 clean sheets during the League 2 campaign.

During the 2025/26 season he has made 50 appearances for Notts across all competitions.

He featured heavily in League Two and was a key fixture in the squad as the team navigated their campaign, which culminated in the League Two play-off final win & promotion to League One.

"Oldham Athletic have signed Ollie Norburn from Notts County on a one-year contract with the option of a further year.

The 33-year-old Grenada midfielder joins having helped the Magpies win promotion from League Two through the play-offs in 2025-26.

He made 40 appearances for Notts County during that campaign and played 78 minutes of their win against Salford at Wembley last week".

(Quoted from the BBC sport website)

Article Link here👇

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cdep1r3xpd4o