of the Year, and also named the LUDO Player of the Year and the LUSC Player of the Year, as well as the Yorkshire Evening Post Player of the Year. At the club's annual awards ceremony, McCormack won the Fans Player of the Year award, Players Player of the Year award and also the Goal of the Season Award for his strike against Sheffield Wednesday. On 5 June, Leeds owner Massimo Cellino said he had rejected a substantial offer for McCormack from Newcastle United, which that club denied. On 30 June, McCormack was left out of Leeds' pre-season training camp in Italy. On 2 July, BBC Sport reported that McCormack had handed in a transfer request. Leeds commented on his future the following day, reiterating that they wanted the player to remain at the club and that the club 'no longer needs to sell their best players in order to run the club successfully'. Fulham McCormack signed for newly relegated Championship team Fulham on 8 July 2014. He was transferred for an £11 million fee, including add-ons, and signed a four-year contract with the option of a fifth. He made his debut on 9 August as Fulham began the season with a 2–1 loss at Ipswich, after which manager Felix Magath criticised his fitness level. Fifteen days later he scored his first goal for his new team, the only one in a League Cup second round victory at West London rivals Brentford. On 17 September, he opened his league account for the Whites with a brace in a 5–3 loss at Nottingham Forest. McCormack was sent off for two yellow cards in a 3–3 draw at Wigan Athletic on 1 November. On 21 January 2015, McCormack scored a hat-trick in the first 32 minutes of a 3–2 win over Forest at Craven Cottage. At the start of April, he scored in four consecutive games, and on the 25th he scored another treble in a 4–3 home win over Middlesbrough. He received the majority of the fans' votes for Fulham's Player of the Season. McCormack retained the club's award the following season, with nearly three-quarters of the votes cast, and was also included in the Championship PFA Team of the Year and beaten only by top scorer Andre Gray as the league's Player of the Season. He scored 23 times over the season in addition to nine assists. Aston Villa and