The Fulham Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Samuel Chukwueze runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tom Cairney damages knee ligaments — 144 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 144 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fulham turn down Atlético Madrid for Rodrigo Muniz
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alex Iwobi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fulham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Emile Smith Rowe sends Fulham past Middlesbrough
It finished 3‑2, and it was Emile Smith Rowe’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fulham.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Kevin
At 23 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Luke Thompson joins the Fulham first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Luke Thompson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fulham promote David Bennett from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Bennett 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
- Market One of our own: Samuel King joins the Fulham first team
- Squad Samuel Chukwueze falls out with a teammate over standards
- Squad Josh King signs a new deal