Fulham have reportedly approached Chelsea about the possibility of signing England international Ross Barkley on loan, according to reports this afternoon.
The 28 year-old attacking midfielder is also a target for Frank Lampard at Everton and Chelsea are keen to offload a number of fringe players to facilitate further spending for Thomas Tuchel before the start of the new season. Barkley, who joined Chelsea from Goodison Park for £15m in January 2018, made just fourteen appearances for Chelsea last season – scoring a single goal. Fulham were interested in bringing in Barkley on loan the last time they were in the Premier League, but after the midfielder chose Aston Villa instead, they opted for Reuben Loftus-Cheek.
Barkley, who has 33 senior caps for England and scored six goals, established himself as one of the country’s most exciting young talents after breaking through at Everton, being voted the club’s young player of the year in 2013 and and 2014. The creative midfielder, once described by Roberto Martinez as a blend of Paul Gascoigne and Michael Ballack, made 179 appearances in eight years with the Toffees, scoring 27 goals. He has struggled to establish himself at Stamford Bridge – and could well be on the move before the close of the transfer window.
How many midfielders do we need? He’s quite tall so maybe we could convert him into a centre back. I suppose he’s better than Reuben Wasteof-Space but that’s not saying much.
According to Si and Dan talk CFC?
Of course he might be useful to us….but….we must have LOADS of money if we’re targeting him and our MASSIVE OBVIOUS need for a new defence and keeper. I thought FFP meant money was tight? In which case why spend a fortune on yet another midfielder. If this is true I’m even more confused as to what is going on
He would be brilliant at Fulham hope it happens
Im sure it was a keeper and defenders we needed because lets be honest ream is a great servant to the club but looked shakey in the championship nevermind him in the prem. Same old fulham reinforce positions not needed
No decent centre back is inDENFENSible
Fulham make Jack Charlton and Rio Ferdinand enquiries, along with David Seaman. Tony Khan fully confident with these new additions to the squad, that a top half finish is likely
No more midfielders. A central defender, right back and goalkeeper in that order are essential otherwise I do not want to be pessimistic but we will go straight back down again. Why are we leaving it so late again.
Barkley? Just what we need!
Another Chelsea flop with a serious attitude problem!
Did we learn nothing from Loftus Bloody Cheek fiasco?
Parker’s reliance on him was a major contributory factor to our demise.
This HAS to be more newspaper BS, surely.
You could not make this up could you can Barkley play Centre Backor Maybe Goalkeeper can someone from the club actually come on the Media TVor Radio and please tell us what is going on here because if the Khans told me that the sky is blue I would not believe them as supporters it appears that we are always moaning but this is Our Beloved Fulham please TK don’t treat us like fools have some Bxxxs and treat us like human beings and most supporters have to more games in a season thanTK has ever been to how many more players are we going to be linked with we have got to name 25 for our PL Squad this season are Cavaleiro,Knockaert ,Onomah etc going to be included in that I don’t include Kongolo in that Fulham have not seen the best of him? We have already had one Chelsea Spy RLC why do we want another one, I am not worried about what’s going on at other clubs just my Beloved Fulham
Why aren’t we looking to take a CB on loan from Chelsea, either Ampadu, Colwill or Chalobah.
2 rumors I don’t like this one about Barkley as we still haven’t signed a CB with Prem experience. The other is we might sign that useless Rico back from PSG, because that’s what we need a useless player that got us relegated before. We have the chance to sign Albania’s no.1 but no the wages were too high but 2 seasons ago you can pay all of Loftus Cheeks wages. Get someone to run this club properly!
They have to be having a laugh we don’t want him or Rico we have enough dead wood already ffs.
It’s about time the Fulham transfer team get there fingers out and spent some money because from we’re I’m sitting we are lagging well behind .we want defenders defenders cannot keep buying 4th choices same old Fulham we will b back in the championship if they don’t start the season strong please listen transfer team . Come on you whites.u