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Uneasy
Market2 Aug 2027
Fulham say no — this time
The offer from Malmo FF for Kenny Tete 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 targets2 Aug 2027
Luton Town wanted more than $2.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jonah Kusi-Asare is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Fulham
Alex Iwobi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Fulham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sander Berge 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 dugout2 Aug 2027
Jorge Cuenca 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
The name of Antonee Robinson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Fulham say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
Fulham say no — this time
The offer from Olympique de Marseille for Rodrigo Muniz 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 targets5 Jul 2027
Luton Town wanted more than $2.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Jonah Kusi-Asare is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Fulham
Alex Iwobi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jorge Cuenca and Fulham agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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; Fulham are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Intake day at the Fulham academy
9 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
Rodrigo Muniz 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.
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Uneasy
Market21 Jun 2027
Derby County paid $29.1M and Fulham took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market21 Jun 2027
The fee is $1.5M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Luton Town drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market21 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Fulham is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Josh King is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom21 Jun 2027
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Fulham
Alex Iwobi 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
Stockport County pay $860.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Sverre Sandal gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sverre Sandal has just signed for Fulham, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Markuss Gomins
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Fulham will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Ipswich Town; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market7 Jun 2027
The bid was some way short and Fulham did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Jun 2027
Tom Cairney 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 Fulham can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Jorge Cuenca: 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.” Fulham have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market7 Jun 2027
Joachim Andersen wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Fulham hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Fulham
Alex Iwobi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Fulham training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joachim Andersen 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Josh King and Fulham agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market7 Jun 2027
Luke Harris comes back from a loan that worked
38 appearances and 4 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
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Crisis
Match10 May 2027
The season ends: position 15 for Fulham
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 36 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Match8 May 2027
No end in sight to Fulham's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Fulham has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 May 2027
8 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Fulham
Alex Iwobi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 May 2027
Fulham cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad10 May 2027
Sander Berge 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.
Match8 May 2027
0‑1 to Manchester City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 May 2027
Sander Berge 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 dugout10 May 2027
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Mark Butler to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Match21 Nov 2026
0‑3 to Brentford, 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Bernd Leno 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 Fulham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Gonzalo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Seth Ridgeon, and the manager let it.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Fulham 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Fulham
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tom Cairney was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Sander Berge knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Fulham, and both men came out saying it was fine.