The Cambridge United Post
Squad8 May 2034
Frank Tattum is named among the best
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Cambridge United will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
The dugout8 May 2034
Ilian Boudache 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.
Squad8 May 2034
Words exchanged at Cambridge United
Luca Fong 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.
Market8 May 2034
The Frank Tattum talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cambridge United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad8 May 2034
Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luca Barani is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout8 May 2034
Vernon Masara gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 May 2034
The decline has begun for Kryspin Szcześniak
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Cambridge United is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Market8 May 2034
Talks stall between Cambridge United and Jamie Grayson
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout8 May 2034
Thierry Rohart-Brown gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Thierry Rohart-Brown is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Casper Roelfsema has been promised minutes
- Market Cambridge United put Yannick Saleh up for sale
- Market Benjamin Johnson leaves for nothing