The Hull City Gazette
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mohamed Belloumi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Aston Villa come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hull City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Abu Kamara goes
Brighton paid $4.4M and Hull City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Hull City
Oli McBurnie 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hull City
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hull City promote Christopher Stewart from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher Stewart has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: George Hamilton joins the Hull City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. George Hamilton is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match15 Aug 2026
Hull City see off Ipswich Town
Three points for Hull City, 1‑0 the final word against Ipswich Town in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Hull City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Charlie Hughes 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Joe Gelhardt stands above it all
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Hull City
- Squad Hull City pick somebody else ahead of Ralf Fährmann