The Hull City Gazette
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Hull City bid $9.5M for Levi Colwill
The offer went to Chelsea this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market23 Aug 2027
Charlie Hughes’s move to Crewe Alexandra falls through
The deal that would have taken Charlie Hughes to Crewe Alexandra has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Hull City with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ivor Pandur keeps Hull City 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Liam Millar runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
George Akinniranye says Hull City went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Viktor Johansson due for a Hull City medical
Everything agreed with Tottenham, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Hull City
Hidemasa Morita 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Hull City
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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Hull City rebuffed over Matteo Ruggeri
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Hull City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market One of our own: George Harris joins the Hull City first team
- Market One of our own: John Young joins the Hull City first team
- Market Hull City promote Benjamin Young from within