Christopher Smith

Goalkeeper - Cambridge United U18
16 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

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The Cambridge United Post

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $5.7M for Oliver Skipp

Cambridge United 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.

The dugout

Samual Archer keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Cambridge United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom

A new deal for Jonathan Jackson

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cambridge United

Freddy Bernal 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Cambridge United

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

6 unbeaten for Cambridge United

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Cambridge United did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets

Burnley tell Cambridge United: Oliver Sonne is not for sale

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.

Market

One of our own: Michael Robinson joins the Cambridge United first team

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

Market

Cambridge United promote Nicholas Smith from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicholas Smith 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