Marked for Timothy Bailey
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Fulham
Joachim Andersen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Fulham supporters have found a favourite in Kevin
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Kevin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Kevin
Marked 8.22 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Brighton leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” James Scott was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Fulham dressing room was either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The plan did not have a place for Emile Smith Rowe
Nobody at Fulham is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market21 Sep 2026
The shop window has Jorge Cuenca in it
Fulham have let the market know Jorge Cuenca can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Kevin question follows Fulham around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kevin’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
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Triumph
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Watford; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fulham say no — this time
The offer from Arsenal for Emile Smith Rowe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Sander Berge’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fulham.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Fulham
Oscar Bobb and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Sander Berge was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Timothy Bailey commits to Fulham for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
PSV pay $47.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $47.4M sale of Calvin Bassey
He is going to PSV, the club has $47.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fulham asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matthew Smith has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonathan Watson 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Timothy Bailey 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Fulham say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.