Ivory Coast midfielder signs four-year contractKenedy rejoins Newcastle on loan from ChelseaFulham have beaten off competition from several European clubs to sign the Nice and Ivory Coast midfielder Jean Michaël Seri for a club-record fee in the region…
• Champions travel to Emirates for Unai Emery’s Arsenal debut• Manchester United host Leicester; Spurs away at NewcastleManchester City will start their Premier League title defence at Arsenal. The 2018-19 fixtures, announced on Thursday morning, hande…
• Fredericks’ contract with Fulham expires this summer• West Ham adamant Marko Arnautovic will not be soldWest Ham are confident of signing the right-back Ryan Fredericks, whose contract with Fulham expires this summer.Fredericks is also a target for C…
Craven Cottage in need of more variations as club prepare for top-flight football after four years in the ChampionshipSlavisa Jokanovic opted for some sporting cross?pollination when asked whether, after two and a half years of battles won and lost, Fu…
No 26 did not deliver destiny for Villa in Championship play-off final, and now Steve Bruce has problems preparing for another promotion tiltSurely football’s gods would not deny Aston Villa this time: 26 May was the 36th anniversary of the club’s…
Fulham players give their reaction after Tom Cairney’s goal gave his side a 1-0 victory against Aston Villa in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. Despite being reduced to 10 men with 20 minutes remaining, the south-west London side were able t…
Slavisa Jokanovic’s side play the kind of front-foot football that makes them welcome Championship play-off winnersThe deafening sound as Fulham celebrated promotion under the Wembley arch gave a whole new meaning to white noise, for Slavisa Jokanovic’…
Sometimes the stakes can be too high in a match; in others, the sheer importance brings the best out of it. This was one of the latter occasions, as Fulham held on to a slender advantage under a second-half barrage to claim their place in the Premier L…
Championship play-off final updates on the game at WembleyDrills, travels and tactics: the keys to Jokanovic’s Fulham successAnd feel free to email John or tweet him @JohnBrewin_ 4.02pm BST Team news: Our @SkyBetChamp #PlayOffFinal starting XI and subs…
‘The Manchester City of the Championship’ take on Villa in the play-off final with much to thank their Serbian manager forWhen Neil Warnock described Fulham as “the Manchester City of the Championship” he was not talking about the transfer fees. Fulham…
This is where we all are at the moment, gushing at news that Fulham’s teenage wing-back can use a household applianceTo south-west London, where startling news emerged when Fulham’s Supporters Trust held its AGM on Tuesday. An awed hush fell over the r…
Fulham won their first play-off match at the eighth attempt and are now 90 minutes from the Premier League after rediscovering their best form at a cacophonous Craven Cottage.Two second-half goals, one from Ryan Sessegnon and the other from Denis Odoi,…
Championship play-off semi-final second leg updatesSign up for The Fiver, our daily football emailAnd feel free to email Jacob or tweet @JacobSteinberg 6.54pm BST Fulham: Bettinelli; Fredericks, Odoi, Ream, Targett; McDonald, Johansen; Kamara, Cairney,…
The gifted teenager and his teammates will need to shake off Derby’s semi-final first-leg shackles and a 1-0 deficit if they are to reach WembleyRyan Sessegnon turns 18 on Friday. Not old enough to get a tattoo, but old enough to face the muscular men …
The side who finished sixth in the Championship have not won promotion through the play-offs since Blackpool managed it in 2010. Derby County have spent the intervening years finding new and more elaborate ways not to go up, but they took a big step to…
Championship play-off semi-final first leg updatesBoro v Villa given added poignancy by Percovich returnAnd you can email John here or tweet @JohnBrewin_ 7.28pm BST Simon McMahon emails in and he’s got it bad. Evening John. Don’t know about you, but I…
Slavisa Jokanovic takes his team to Pride Park for a semi-final first leg on Friday evening and with a big duck to breakThe Fulham juggernaut hit a pothole last weekend. A team unbeaten in 23 Championship matches got turned over by 20th?placed Birmingh…
Slavisa Jokanovic’s men have history on their side but there are reasons to believe for Middlesbrough, Derby and Aston VillaSome teams flourish, some fret and some freeze but there is nothing quite like the pressure-cooker that is the Championship play…
Fulham succumbed to stage fright as their 23-game unbeaten run and dreams of automatic promotion unravelled. For a team that had forgotten how to lose, taking the race to finish in the top two to the very end, this was the worst time to slump to defeat…
