The Hull City Gazette
Squad3 Jun 2030
A fracture rules Alejo Antilef out for 98 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hull City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Michael White damages knee ligaments — 20 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings3 Jun 2030
Nobody could get near Brennan Johnson
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Jun 2030
Only the photograph left for Josh McEachran
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Josh McEachran will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hull City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Tempers go at Hull City
Brennan Johnson 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.
Squad3 Jun 2030
Carlos Baleba 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.
Boardroom3 Jun 2030
Hull City release $4.4M for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Market3 Jun 2030
Abdülkadir Ömür placed on the list
Hull City have made Abdülkadir Ömür available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market3 Jun 2030
Neo Eccleston is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Hull City has been clear about where Neo Eccleston stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- Market Oli McBurnie linked with a move away
- Match Hull City and Wolverhampton cancel each other out
- Player ratings The referee tires of Carlos Baleba