Ryan Loft

Striker - Cambridge United
12 Sep 2026
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6 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Cambridge United close the window on a squad of their own making

10 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Oriol Romeu

Cambridge United asked and Southampton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Modou Faal 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Cambridge United and Harvey White

“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.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Cambridge United ask about Abdoul Ouattara

A loan enquiry to Ipswich Town: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Cambridge United

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Dominic Ball makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Pelly-Ruddock Mpanzu. Cambridge United will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

Jake Eastwood faces his old club

Grimsby Town next, and one man in the Cambridge United dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market31 Aug 2026

Sullay Kaikai 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Cambridge United make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cambridge United have 4 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Too dear: Cambridge United walk away from Jayden Moore

$150.0K was the most the club would pay and Southampton were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Waasland-Beveren tell Cambridge United: Giovanni Haag is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match29 Aug 2026

Louis Appéré the difference as Cambridge United beat Oldham Athletic

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Louis Appéré. 1‑0 against Oldham Athletic, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad31 Aug 2026

100 appearances for Gassan Ahadme

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

Josh Gordon 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Louis Appéré

7.69, 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.

The dugout31 Aug 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Jonathan Jackson kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief