Marked for Jorge Cuenca
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match3 Nov 2026
Cup progress for Fulham
A 1‑0 win over Preston, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match8 Nov 2026
3‑0, and Rodrigo Muniz took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Fulham tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Fulham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Iván Pérez ran the middle of the pitch — 6.98
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 14 combined actions and a mark of 6.98, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Gonzalo
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fulham may not be able to give Oscar Bobb what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Oscar Bobb wants continental football; whether Fulham can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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Steady
Match31 Oct 2026
A hiding for Fulham
Beaten 0‑4 by Manchester United, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad2 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Fulham heard it as anything else.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joachim Andersen, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Jorge Cuenca has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Fulham.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Fulham dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Paul Hunter after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kaye Furo 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Fulham will feel it on Saturday.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Kaye Furo keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Fulham may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tom Wingate is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Fulham
Oscar Bobb 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Fulham are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Kevin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kevin signs something — a contract at Fulham or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
8 saves: Bernd Leno was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Sep 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Fulham
Emile Smith Rowe 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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Fulham supporters have found a favourite in Oscar Bobb
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Oscar Bobb 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rodrigo Muniz. 1‑0 against Brighton, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Sander Berge is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout21 Sep 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.” Paul Hunter kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Market21 Sep 2026
The shop window has Jorge Cuenca in it
Fulham have let the market know Jorge Cuenca can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Crisis
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Fulham, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Sep 2026
Fulham cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Kevin 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chelsea left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Paul Hunter to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Sander Berge
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Kevin story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kevin signs something — a contract at Fulham or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Fulham can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Fulham close the window on a squad of their own making
8 in and 10 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The most awkward business a club does is signing tomorrow's answer while today's is still in the building. Pascal Loretz comes from Luzern for exactly that purpose, and the handover will not be discussed publicly by anybody.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Fulham asked and Stockport County 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
Tempers go at Fulham
Oscar Bobb 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Fulham
5 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
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and David Affengruber has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Jorge Cuenca 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.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
“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
Everton left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Oscar Bobb 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 Fulham this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
International break empties Fulham
6 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Paul Hunter left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market31 Aug 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Calvin Bassey signs something — a contract at Fulham or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Aidan Evans dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Fulham that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.