The Cambridge United Post
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dan Sweeney
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cambridge United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Ben Purrington says Cambridge United went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Aaron Drinan
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Cambridge United have done the hard part with Swindon Town, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Cambridge United
Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Ben Hughes at Cambridge United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ben Hughes is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match2 Jan 2027
Cambridge United find a way past Barrow AFC
Barrow AFC made Cambridge United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Cambridge United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Shayne Lavery was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near James Brophy
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Ninety minutes of Louis Appéré at his very best
Marked 8.02. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cambridge United.
In brief
- Market Cambridge United and Dan Sweeney are talking past each other
- Transfer targets Cambridge United try to borrow Jack Stacey
- Market Cambridge United sign Camilo Tapasco, one for the future