Simon Hall

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The Hull City Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Hull City strike at the death to beat Sheffield Wednesday

There were 86 minutes on the clock and Sheffield Wednesday had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and Hull City did not stop to explain themselves.

Market

Hull City turn down Fleetwood Town for Regan Slater

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Hull City walk away from Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson

$1.4M was the most the club would pay and Brentford were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market

Business is business: Lewie Coyle goes

Luton Town paid $1.7M 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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $600.0K for Jannik Vestergaard

Hull City have gone to Leicester City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A falling-out at Hull City

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

Boardroom

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.

Transfer targets

Hull City rebuffed over Matty James

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Hull City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mohamed-Ali Cho

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief