Logan Cooke

Central Defender - Free Agent
7 Dec 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Logan Cooke

234 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

20 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Joel Ndala was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 28. 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.

Market

Fulham sign Luke Alker for $2.5M

The paperwork is done: Luke Alker joins from Norwich City in a deal worth $2.5M. Now comes the harder part.

Market

Logan Cooke asks to leave Fulham

“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 targets

Manchester City tell Fulham: Adam Henderson is not for sale

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.

Squad

A falling-out at Fulham

Bernd Leno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Fulham

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alex Iwobi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Fulham try to borrow Dylan Moody

Southampton have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Luke Harris 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.

The dugout

Mark Butler: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief

Back issues
218 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

30 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Andrea Dini out for 117 days

117 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Fulham lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Logan Cooke says Fulham 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.

Market

Samuel Amissah has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Fulham they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Fulham

Bernd Leno and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Fulham training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Iwobi 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Fulham against Bolton Wanderers

0‑1 to Bolton Wanderers, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Late improvement for Callum Tripp

At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ato Ampah

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ato Ampah, and the manager let it.

The dugout

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.

In brief