Scott Parker wants Fulham to secure new arrivals as soon as possible in order to avoid a deadline day rush.
Fulham have been playing catch up for most of the season largely as a result of delayed recruitment in the summer transfer window, something Parker obliquely referenced in his post-match press conference following Fulham’s narrow derby defeat to Chelsea on Saturday:
We were three or four games in before we did a lot of our business and a lot of points were at stake really. So, of course, we’d like to try and get the business in early because it gives you an opportunity to work with the player, gives them a quicker time to settle in, and obviously you don’t miss as many games.
We understand the difficulties of this window and it is a short turnaround but I’d like to do business early, I’d like to get players in. Hopefully we can get some help because we do need it in certain areas.
The Fulham boss has already spoken about the importance of adding a striker to his squad. Aleksandar Mitrovic has missed the last two games with a calf problem picked up in the FA Cup win at QPR and Ivan Cavaleiro, who has filled in as a makeshift centre forward, missed a glorious chance just before half-time to put the Whites ahead against Chelsea.
As in my previous comments I have said that we need a striker now and not at the end of the month.Having played well lately we have not scored enough and have missed some good chances at this moment as well as we might play against man utd I can’t see us scoring
Clear message to TK from our gaffer and I fully agree with him! We need attacking strength now and not hold out for deals at the end of the window.
It’s pretty obvious that they truly believed that the promotion team would be good enough for the Premiership. It was only when they were shown how wrong they were that they scrambled to fix the defensive problems that were obvious to all Fulham fans.
As Scott Parker now acknowledges, that cost us a lot of points and you would think that, at the very least, a lesson would have been learnt.
Yet, here we are again with a problem of a different sort that desperately needs addressing-namely our urgent need for a striker- and all we have is more prevarication.
If Scott Parker had made these latest comments two weeks ago then fair enough but he is making them with more than two weeks of the January transfer window already gone.
We play Man Utd on Wednesday and, unless we can pull off a sensational surprise, we will struggle to get a positive result. Let’s assume that we can get a draw. That will mean that we would have dropped 7 valuable points in the games against Spurs, Chelsea and Man Utd. 7 points! Add these to the points we dropped at the start of the season because our defensive issues had not been addressed swiftly enough in the summer window and we would, in all probability, be a mid table team right now instead of stuck fast in the relegation mire.
We keep getting told by Parker that we are going to be in this position all season and that’s the reality when, in fact, the exact opposite is the truth. Scott Parker tells us that we, the fans, and the players have to get used to being at the bottom of the table and, as long as we finish fourth from bottom at the end of the season, we will have had a successful season. It’s that sort of thinking that I find so frustrating because, if the people in charge had shown just a bit more initiative and enterprise n the last and current transfer windows, we would be many more points better off right now.
Hurry up and get a striker or 2 and don’t keep talking about it get it done now, why are we always playing catch up. I still believe TK isn’t right for that job, so prove me Wrong.
It’s all so SLOW!
Slow to ditch the stupidity that our Championship defence was going to cut it. Despite TK saying it took him time to recruit the defence, the truth is they thought they didn’t have to massively recruit until 5 or 6 games in.
Now we have the same with getting a striker. We knew we needed a pacy front man before the season even started. It’ll be half a season before he turns up. Get on with it TK.
Oh, and while you’re at it also try and make a sub earlier to influence a game rather than reacting to it.
Lack of decisiveness is the inexperience of TK and Parker coming through. That said I hope we keep Parker. Having invested so much in his development let’s hope he doesn’t use Fulham as a springboard.