Stephen King

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Marked for Stephen King

160 Edition

The Fulham Chronicle

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Aug 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jonah Kusi-Asare

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Fulham lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Chey Dunkley breaks a bone — 91 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Bernd Leno keeps Fulham in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom20 Aug 2029

Stephen King 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.

Squad20 Aug 2029

Words exchanged at Fulham

Luke Harris 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.

Boardroom20 Aug 2029

8 academy players handed senior numbers at Fulham

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.

Market20 Aug 2029

One of our own: Liam Fisher joins the Fulham first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Fisher is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market20 Aug 2029

One of our own: Benjamin Hall joins the Fulham first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benjamin Hall is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market20 Aug 2029

Fulham promote Luke Robinson from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Robinson 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.

In brief

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160 Edition

The Oxford United Herald

20 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad20 Aug 2029

Gatlin O'Donkor damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.

Market20 Aug 2029

Ole Romeny has said yes to Newport County

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Oxford United have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market20 Aug 2029

Wigan Athletic come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Oxford United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market20 Aug 2029

Gatlin O'Donkor turns Wycombe Wanderers down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets20 Aug 2029

Oxford United baulk at the price for Tomás Bugallo

Charlton Athletic wanted more than $2.0M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market20 Aug 2029

Only the photograph left for Nahuel Flamenco

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nahuel Flamenco will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Oxford United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad20 Aug 2029

A falling-out at Oxford United

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

Match18 Aug 2029

Whatever happens, Oxford United do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Boardroom20 Aug 2029

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Oxford United

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.

In brief