Ryan Loft

Striker - Cambridge United
5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ryan Loft

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The Cambridge United Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Sullay Kaikai settles it late for Cambridge United

The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Sullay Kaikai decided nobody was going anywhere. Accrington Stanley had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Shayne Lavery

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Preston Fearon, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Dominic Ball 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 Cambridge United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Shayne Lavery 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.

Match

Sullay Kaikai sends Cambridge United past Accrington Stanley

It finished 2‑1, and it was Sullay Kaikai’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cambridge United.

The terraces

Cambridge United supporters have found a favourite in Preston Fearon

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Preston Fearon has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Sullay Kaikai at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Cambridge United.

Squad

Ryan Loft asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Cambridge United Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Glenn McConnell asks to leave Cambridge United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu 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 Cambridge United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shayne Lavery 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Sullay Kaikai

7.68, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Cambridge United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Match

Cambridge United share the spoils with Walsall

A 1‑1 draw with Walsall leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Shayne Lavery runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief