Timothy Castagne is delighted to have established himself as a first-team regular with Fulham and is loving life at Craven Cottage – but has admitted a lacklustre finish to the season was not good enough.
The Belgian right back has replaced Kenny Tete as Marco Silva’s first choice and impressed with a series of solid displays but told the Evening Standard he won’t be resting his laurels this summer.
“My first season has been great. I’ve felt at home straight away. I think I was very consistent. I’ve helped more with assists and scoring [since January], but I know I can do more. If I can do better, we can go higher in the table.
The end of the season, we didn’t play good enough. Before Sheffield [United] and Nottingham Forest, we were looking at maybe eighth position. Then you get one point out of six and we didn’t recover from that; it went a bit downhill. There’s no point in having a great season and then not getting results in the last five, six or seven games and basically just losing the objective. That’s what we’ll try to do better next season: have the same season but just finish better. We’ll see what happens.”
Best signing last season. Excellent 1st season.
Reason for the poor end to the season. Leadership on the pitch. The captain is not just there for the toss. He must take ownership of what is happening on the pitch. A good captain would not let games drift the way they did last year. First on the shopping list should be a very good player with a big personality who can motivate those around him.
What did we have B.D.R and Leno.
I agree with CB. We have not had a proper captain since Danny Murphy. Our captains have been anonymous and do not lead the team, that includes Ream and Cairney. Maybe Palhinha or Castagne could do the job.