The Hull City Gazette
Market19 Jun 2045
Stephen Roberts sold, and an era ends
$15.2M from Manchester United for Stephen Roberts. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Boardroom19 Jun 2045
Hull City hand the job to Enzo Castro
“I have supported clubs like this one. I know what a bad Saturday feels like here.” The new man starts with nothing behind him and everything in front of him.
Squad19 Jun 2045
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mark Ward
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hull City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Jun 2045
Sheffield come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hull City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces19 Jun 2045
Hull City sell a favourite for $15.2M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Stephen Roberts was one of the reasons people came, and $15.2M does not replace that by itself.
Squad19 Jun 2045
Jan Giménez 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.
Squad19 Jun 2045
Anastasios Tsadjaris gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Anastasios Tsadjaris has just signed for Hull City, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad19 Jun 2045
Chinguun Bolorbold falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom19 Jun 2045
Hull City agree a free transfer for Richard Grant
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
In brief
- Market Arsenii Kondratiev brings the grey hairs Hull City lacked
- Market Oliver Hall linked with a move away
- Boardroom Hull City keep producing them