The Fulham Chronicle
Market21 Jun 2027
Business is business: Emile Smith Rowe goes
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
Sverre Sandal is a Fulham player
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
Diogo Casimiro is on his way
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
Diogo Casimiro has agreed to leave Fulham for nothing
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
Tom Cairney moves on
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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of David Affengruber
- The dugout Jonatan Lucca knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes Hugo Larsson a promise