Kieran Dowell

Central Midfielder - Hull City
25 Jan 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Kieran Dowell

25 Edition

The Hull City Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Hull City's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Hull City has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Paddy McNair keeps the receipts

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

Market

Oli McBurnie attracts admirers

The name of Oli McBurnie has come up in conversations Hull City were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mohamed Belloumi

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Hull City

Oli McBurnie was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Hull City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Charlie Hughes 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.

Match

Hull City hit back inside 1 minutes

Cardiff City held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Hull City answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

Match

Honours even between Hull City and Cardiff City

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad

No hiding place for Matt Crooks

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matt Crooks, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Hull City Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Oli McBurnie's — 8.86

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.86, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Oli McBurnie 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 Hull City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Hull City count the cost of losing Paddy McNair

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Hull City get the job done against Huddersfield Town

A 2‑0 win over Huddersfield Town, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Charlie Hughes 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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Hull City are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kieran Dowell

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Oli McBurnie linked with a move away

The name of Oli McBurnie keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hull City say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Hull City and George Pratt are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

3 Edition

The Hull City Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Hull City sell Darko Gyabi for $5.9M

Darko Gyabi has left for West Ham United in a $5.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

George Pratt gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. George Pratt has just signed for Hull City, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Tempers go at Hull City

Oli McBurnie was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hull City

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.

Match

Hull City find a way past Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town made Hull City work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Mohamed Belloumi

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Liam Millar

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Matthew Wright steps up from the Hull City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matthew Wright has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Daniel Green joins the Hull City first team

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

In brief