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The draw for the second round of the Carabao Cup has been made.

The EFL Cup remains regionalised in the early rounds, with the draw split into Northern and Southern sections until round three.

Here are the ties involving Premier League clubs:

Northern section

Sheffield Wednesday v Leeds United

Burnley v Derby County

Everton v Mansfield Town

Grimsby Town v Manchester United

Sunderland v Huddersfield Town

Southern section

Bournemouth v Brentford

Fulham v Bristol City

Oxford United v Brighton

Wolves v West Ham United

The 23 second-round ties will take place during the week beginning 25 August.

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Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Bournemouth are in talks to sign Fulham winger Macauley Zepa but expect competition from Nottingham Forest.

The French youngster is looking to leave Craven Cottage amid concerns about his pathway into Marco Silva's first team having refused to sign a professional contract on his 17th birthday in July.

Fulham would be due compensation but Bournemouth are looking to extend the ambition of their academy following renewed training ground investment under Bill Foley's ownership.

Zepa scored 11 goals and supplied 10 assists in 30 league matches for Fulham's Under-18s last season and is understood to be negotiating terms over a move into Bournemouth's academy team.

However, there is caution given known interest from Forest and the potential for a rival offer.

Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Fulham are in talks to sign winger Kevin from Shakhtar Donetsk for what would likely end up being a record fee.

The 22-year-old is expected to cost more than the club record £34m paid to Arsenal for Emile Smith Rowe last summer.

Those close to the negotiations have explained that a gap remains between the clubs' valuations, with Shakhtar holding out for £43m. There is an expectation however, that £39m may be enough.

Reports have suggested a bid of up to £37m has been lodged and rejected by the Ukrainian champions.

Manager Marco Silva is believed to want two additional wingers amid talks about re-signing Arsenal winger Reiss Nelson and having let Willian leave the club in the summer for the second time.

Already this season, Kevin has four goals and two assists in three Europa League qualifying matches, having registered nine goals and four assists in 35 games in 2024-25 across all competitions.

Drew Heatley
Fan writer

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My biggest hope and main fear for this season are intrinsically linked.

That is because, at time of writing, we have made just one signing - a back-up goalkeeper to the unmovable Bernd Leno.

I am hopeful because, despite no major incomings, we have (so far) not lost any key cogs in Marco Silva's machine.

Antonee Robinson remains at the club despite constant rumours to the contrary. We have retained the services of Kenny Tete on the opposite side. Highly-rated academy trio Josh King, Seth Ridgeon and Luc de Fougerolles have all committed their futures to the club. And captain Tom Cairney will be here for one final season.

We had a decent campaign in 2024-25, despite a late tail-off. So, keeping this side together and injecting a bit of youth feels like a solid start to the summer. But it is not the start of the summer. The Premier League season kicks off this weekend.

And that brings me to my fear. If our squad was three or four bodies deeper in key areas, our aforementioned dip in form could well have been avoided. And that might have sent us into Europe.

We know the Khans are fans of deadline day deals. But they would do well to remember that by the time that window "slams shut" and they have done their bargain basement shopping, the Premier League will already be three games in, with nine points up for grabs - a sixth of our entire haul last term.

So, as the new campaign approaches, I - like many other Fulham fans - will be keeping as close an eye on the goings on at Motspur Park as I will on the pitch. And we will all have to wait a few weeks longer for our hopes - or fears - to be realised.

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We asked for your views on whether Fulham are ready for the new season after the Whites completed their pre-season campaign with a 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday.

Here are some of your comments:

Gordon: I really hope we are ready. Rumours we are happy with our team does not inspire much confidence in this season. Pre-season has been good but not really set the world alight. I hope we sign a couple of players at least. Maybe pick players from the Championship where we can get talent at slightly better value to give us some depth in squad. Marco Silva has been exceptional but let's support him with some funds please.

Tom: When your director of football has other jobs, is it any surprise Fulham have only signed a back-up goalkeeper with days left before the new season starts? Some rival clubs have lost significant personnel this summer (Bournemouth and Brentford) and others will be overstretched this season (Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace). Silva has the potential to create a successful Fulham team, but unless he is supported by competent people who can bring in the players he needs, then the club will have missed a massive opportunity to make history.

Alex: No, I don't think we are ready. Marco was told he would have a summer budget but didn't get anyone and if we now do they won't have time to settle in properly. Think the owners need to assess how they approach investing in the club.

Colin: No signings? What's the problem? This coming October will see the 80th anniversary of my first visit to the Cottage. In those 80 years, arguably, the club's most 'successful' periods have been with a settled squad. 'Continuity' has been as equal in importance as tinkering with players coming and going. Fulham have a good, settled squad at this time and a premium-level manager. As we have witnessed in the past, there is no guarantee that spending millions on a 'name' is any guarantee that things will change for the better. What is of more concern is the readiness to sell homegrown talent.

Simon: The lack of summer signings seems to suggest the owner's ambition is only for a 17th-place finish. If Scott Parker's Burnley beat us to that spot it will be the ultimate humiliation but thoroughly deserved. The posh stand will make a decent leisure centre when we're back in the Championship.

Nick: We should be able to keep heads above water but other teams have strengthened and we haven't so far. Unless a couple more quality players come in, I fear we might slip back and end up looking over our shoulders a bit too much.

Pre-season is completed and the countdown to the 2025-26 season is on.

It's been a very quiet summer at Craven Cottage with just one signing so far.

The Whites start the season at Brighton on Saturday - but are they ready?

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Fulham rounded off their pre-season campaign with a 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

Raul Jimenez's fine first-half free-kick was enough to secure a third win in three pre-season friendlies after victory over Nottingham Forest and Al-Ittihad.

You have been sharing your stories and photos about why you love Fulham.

Here is a final selection of your submissions, but do make sure you scroll down this page to see all the best responses from throughout the week:

Simone: I moved to the UK in January 2020 - an unfortunate time. For a long time, I didn't have many friends here because of the lockdown fallout.

During the first lockdown I lived in Parsons Green and walked often by the Cottage, dreaming of visiting one day. One day, a colleague invited me to a game and it was love at first sight with a flamboyant 3-2 win over Brentford!

I became a season ticket holder and around the stands have made some of my best friends in this country.

Fulham FC means friendship in a new country I now call home.

John: We lived close to the Cottage and my dad carried me to the ground on his shoulders from the age of two in 1961.

You could go on to the pitch without problem and get autographs from the likes of World Cup winner George Cohen.

This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos about why you fell in love with Fulham.

Here is a selection of your submissions:

Jeremy: Fulham have been my club for 67 years, since my brothers took me to see us against Tottenham when I was five.

Both were Spurs fans, but I fell in love with Haynes, Hill, Cohen, Macedo et al. Tommy Trinder and Bryan Robson signed my matchday programme.

From a few points from relegation to non-league to an FA Cup and a Europa League final, to Ireland, to Europe, I have no interest in any other club.

Fulham is simply the best novel ever written.

Mario: At the 1975 FA Cup final, my brother and I got to choose who we wanted to support. Seeing as he's not a big football fan he opted out. I chose Fulham, as Bobby Moore was playing for them, and my mum chose West Ham, because he used to play for them. Fast forward a year, I'm now at secondary school and three new friends, who all supported Fulham invited me to go along to the next home game. Well, 50 years later and I'm forever Fulham.

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Alex Howell
BBC Sport football news reporter

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It has been a quiet summer at Craven Cottage so far with the signing of Benjamin Lecomte from French side Montpellier the only incoming so far.

The Whites have been linked with Arsenal's Reiss Nelson but are yet to bring in a new outfield player.

However, those at the club are calm about the situation heading into the new season.

Sources around the club have confidence in the team they have and believe that they have enough depth in each position to keep them competitive.

Fulham wanted to focus on keeping the current squad together and reject interest for their players, which according to sources, there have been enquiries for several.

They believe that in addition to signing up the youngsters and providing them with a pathway, Fulham are able to compete and achieve their goals.

It has not been ruled out that Fulham could do something in the market but they are not looking to add to the wage bill unless they feel the potential player can really add something to the squad.

Nicola Pearson
BBC Sport journalist

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When it comes to our love for a football club, the answer to why we do lies in "both psychological and societal" reasons.

In the first part of her chat with BBC Sport, researcher and co-writer of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom Danielle Sarver Coombs spoke about the part that identity and tradition play.

And yet when we are caught up in the emotions of a tough defeat or nerves of an important match, we can often ask why we put ourselves through it.

"There are psychological processes at work and physiological ones in terms of how we respond and engage," Sarver Coombs said.

"An example that I always give is when I take the train to work, I go past Arsenal's stadium and I feel literally nothing other than: 'Oh, that's a big building'. Whereas on a train to Manchester, I went by Villa Park and my heart started pounding. I got all excited and was trying to take pictures out the window.

"I had a visceral reaction to this place. We can't pretend we don't have that sort of physical reaction because we do.

"When someone is talking about a controversial decision and I feel myself getting wound up, even though I intellectually know that I can't control it and that it's just a game, my body doesn't know that.

"My gut doesn't know that and so I have this really emotional response and we can't control that."

A 2023 book titled 'Football on the brain: why minds love sport, external' suggests it comes down to 'an understandable and logical consequence of the human mind's natural inclination to find meaning through beliefs... It's a religion as far as the brain is concerned'.

But it not just about what is going on inside the mind but outside influences too.

"There is a sociological element to it because the community part is such a huge driver and benefit for us," Sarver Coombs explains.

"Sociologically, we are driven to be part of communities. We are driven to find our groups that we can be members of. Sport provides a way to do that - this sense that I was chosen to be part of this community and it's something bigger than I am."

As the game expands, unrest among supporters seems to be increasing, but how does that impact this ingrained love for a club?

"You always go through these cycles when the game is changing," Sarver Coombs said.

"Despite all the changes, the traditions remain so strong and it's such a huge draw that it becomes really hard to actually separate yourself from it. Even if you do, it tends to be a short-term separation. You get sucked back in because something happens.

"People don't want that change, but then we adapt to it and continue moving forward."

Browse this page to see lots of fan stories for how you fell in love with your club.

And check out those from other Premier League teams over here

This week, we are asking you to share your stories and photos for why you fell in love with Fulham.

Here is a selection of your submissions:

Les: I was born in Fulham in 1950. My grandparents, my mum and dad supported Fulham. I was taken at age three to watch the reserves and at six to see the first team v Leeds and John Charles. There has been no other team since.

The best player was undoubtedly Johnny Haynes but my favourite was Graham Leggat. So many good memories of matches and players but the FA Cup final in 1975 and the Europa League run including beating Juventus stand out.

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Fulham have revealed their new 2025-26 away kit, paying tribute to their teams of the 1990s.

The green shirt reintroduces the 1995 crest to a strip for the first time since 2001 and features a navy collar and sides with white piping, inspired by the club's 1999-2000 away kit.

The launch was accompanied with a film, which "celebrates the period of the 90s and the adventures of following Fulham away, charting the club's highs and lows from across the era".

The film features club legend Sean Davis alongside men's players Harry Wilson, Emile Smith Rowe and Rodrigo Muniz and women's team players Ella Tagliavini, Megalie Mendes and Jade Bradley.

Opta's Supercomputer has once again predicted the upcoming 2025-26 Premier League season by using a model to simulate every match 10,000 times.

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Manchester United only reach the Champions League in 6.7% of simulations, while Thomas Frank's new-look Tottenham only do so in 5.7%. These numbers will obviously largely be based on their underperformance last time around.

Both are therefore predicted a mid-table finish.

However, United are also relegated in 11.1% of simulations, meaning currently Opta's computer suggests they are more likely to go down than make the top four.

Both Everton and Fulham are both predicted to have slightly disappointing seasons with lower mid-table finishes simulated most often by the Supercomputer.

The latter had a productive 2024-25 campaign so may not be happy by 14.8% of simulations having them as relegated.

For the Blues' first season at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, David Moyes' side are relegation in 12.5% of the computer's simulations.

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We know the relationship between a football fan and their club is a special one so, as we gear up for the new season, we asked you to share why you fell in love with Fulham and some of your favourite moments supporting them.

Here are some of your submissions:

Ben: Why do I love Fulham? Well in my first job as a chef, I worked for a catering company at a local sports centre. They also had a contract to cater for matchdays at Craven Cottage. I was 16 years old at the time and I ended up helping out with the dining for the directors and cooking for Jimmy Hill in the early 1990s. I'm still in the trade now, I've been a Fulham fan for over 30 years and I now go to games with my six-year-old son.

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Nicola Pearson
BBC Sport journalist

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'Why did you fall in love with your club?'

This week, we have asked hundreds of football fans across the world that very question and got hundreds of different answers.

Yes, the themes might be similar - born near a ground; family supported the team; watched a certain player - but the individual story will be unique to each supporter.

The relationship between a fan and their club should not be underestimated, with people ploughing uncountable amounts of money, time and emotional energy into their support for their team.

But what is that makes us love our clubs the way we do?

"A lot of it comes down to our identity," researcher and co-writer of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom Danielle Sarver Coombs told BBC Sport.

"We become part of this group that means so much to us. It becomes a way to find a community that you're a part of and to find a group of people that, no matter where you are, you could find a pub with other fans of your team. You have that kinship.

"In a world that's increasingly quite lonely, this provides one of the ways that we can have connections so we can have the feeling that we're part of something bigger."

Connection and identity plays a big role in someone's love for their club - particularly when it is a family link.

Many fans talk of being born into who they support - that the connection is so strong there was no other team they could, or would, have chosen.

"The great thing with football is that there's such a strong heritage component to it," Sarver Coombs said. "Often, your grandfather, father, mother or whomever was a fan of the team, so it's part of your family's tradition.

"It's handed down from generation to generation."

The uniqueness of football fandom is something researchers are increasingly investigating.

An article, external published earlier this year in psychology journal Frontiers discusses how football fans often follow follow teams with 'significant attachment and commitment, sometimes to the bewilderment of those outside of the game'.

"With football clubs, you have decades of tradition that you can tap into and it's going to keep coming," Sarver Coombs added.

"Players come and go, managers come and go, shirts change, badges change, but the club itself - the heart and soul of it remains constant. You always have that piece that you're tied to, so the longevity of clubs is a really important part.

"But also, that constant in-person opportunity to be present in a community space really sets football apart from other passions that may be transient or do not have that constant engagement."

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We know the relationship between a football fan and their club is a special one so, as we gear up for the new season, we asked you to share why you fell in love with Fulham and some of your favourite moments supporting them.

Nick: Fulham were our local team, my father's family lived on Greyhound Road, my mother's on Everington Street. My great-great grandmother was born in the original Craven Cottage that stood before the stadium was built.

When I was an eight-year-old lad, my grandfather and I were stood outside the gates one weekday afternoon. A chap was taking various items from his car into the Cottage, and he asked my grandad if there was anything he wanted.

Grandad explained about my grandmother being born in the Cottage, whereupon we were whisked in to meet Alec Stock. I have only vague recollections of this, but my grandad remarked to the rest of my family that as a lifelong Fulham supporter, it took his grandson to finally get him into the Cottage!

Les: I was born in Fulham in 1950. My grandparents, my mum and dad supported Fulham. I was taken at age three to watch the reserves and then at six to see the first team against Leeds and John Charles. There has been no other team since. The best player was undoubtedly Johnny Haynes but my favourite was Graham Leggat.

I have so many good memories of matches and players but the FA Cup final in 1975 and the Europa League run when we beat Juventus stand out.

Send us your pictures and stories

On Monday, we asked you to tell us why you fell in love with Fulham and some of your favourite moments supporting them.

You have already been getting in touch with your photos and stories and here is just a taste from Keith:

My love for Fulham Football Club stretches over 4,000 miles—from the banks of the River Thames to the shores of Wilmington, North Carolina.

Supporting Fulham from across the Atlantic hasn't always been easy. Kickoffs can be as early as 7 a.m. local time, and I've had to shape my weekends around match days, live streams, and texts from mates in the UK.

But despite the time zones and travel, this connection to Fulham has become a defining part of my life. Being a American Fulham supporter from the United States might be rare, but for me, it's never felt foreign. The Cottage feels like home. Fulham feels like family.

And no matter where I am—at the Cottage, watching from Wilmington, — I'll always back the Whites.

So join the conversation and send your best photos about why you love Fulham.

Your first visit to the stadium? A special kit? An amazing away trip?

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Tom McCoy
BBC Sport journalist

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Newcastle are the latest club linked with Fulham striker Rodrigo Muniz, who is also being linked with Leeds and Atalanta. The 24-year-old has struggled to nail down a starting spot at Craven Cottage, often playing second fiddle to Raul Jimenez over the past two seasons.

But he has attracted attention from potential suitors by making the most of limited opportunities. The Brazilian opened his Premier League account in a 2-2 draw at Burnley in February 2024, the first of 17 top-flight goals in the space of 16 months.

During this time he averages a goal every 128 minutes, the sixth best record in the competition. The only players to post better figures are Alexander Isak, Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah – arguably the league's three best forwards – plus Jhon Duran and Richarlison, both of whom mainly profited as impact substitutes.

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Muniz has proved himself a clinical finisher over this period, outperforming his expected goals tally by 3.46, while also excelling in the air. Though hardly a giant at 6ft 1in, he has won an average of five aerial duels per 90 minutes since February 2024, the fourth best record of any players to appear regularly in the top flight.

Leeds have repeatedly targeted tall players this summer and Muniz's physicality could be a real asset to the newly promoted side. Winning a starting role at Newcastle or Atalanta may prove more challenging, but those clubs could offer the enticing prospect of Champions League football.

However, Fulham have yet to sign an outfield player this summer and they may be reluctant to let Muniz move on without first having a replacement lined up.

With 25-year-old striker Alexander Isak agreeing a contract with Liverpool, Newcastle United have added 24-year-old Fulham forward Rodrigo Muniz to their list of summer targets. (Mail - subscription required), external

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Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Fulham striker Rodrigo Muniz has been shortlisted by Italian club Atalanta as they seek a replacement for Mateo Retegui.

Muniz, 24, has just one year left on his contract at Craven Cottage but the club also retain an option to extend the Brazilian's contract by a further year, leaving the west Londoners in some control of his destiny.

However, Atalanta have funds after qualifying for the Champions League and selling Retegui, the top scorer in Italy's Serie A last season, to Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah for a reported £56m fee.