Fulham have registered their interest with Bournemouth in signing striker Josh King, according to the Football Insider.
The Cherries have rejected a £16m bid from Aston Villa for the Norwegian international and Fulham are now said to be preparing their own offer. Bournemouth are apparently holding out until a club meets their £20m valuation of the 28 year-old forward.
Villa’s interest is rumoured to be unaffected by their success in bringing Brentford striker Ollie Watkins to Villa Park this week as Dean Smith wants to sign another striker and address Villa’s goalscoring problems as the new Premier League season approaches. Fulham would likely view King, who came through the Manchester United academy after starring in Norwegian youth football, as a potential back-up for Aleksandar Mitrovic given that the Whites have little in the way of forward cover should the Serbian striker get injured.
King has scored 50 goals in 167 appearances for Bournemouth – registering 16 Premier League goals in 2016/2017 and twelve in 2018/19. He managed just six in 27 games last term as Bournemouth were relegated from the top flight. King has scored 17 international goals in 48 appearances for Norway.
Overall things looking good .
Can’t see it happening would love it to good to be true
Need CH BADLY
We keep getting mentioned when it comes to these players but they Never materialise, this is no exception.Dream on.Villa paid way over the top for watkins big pressure on Smith for the coming season,not sour grapes but if watkins is 33 million what price I
Mittrovic ??
The pieces seem to be slowly and gradually falling into place. We need another accomplished striker with more pace and mobility to compliment Mitrovic so we threaten more with the ball.
We obviously need two CBs where are they?
I’m trying to stay patient
Think we shouldoing be aiming a little higher than Josh King.
He doesn’t exactly set the matches on fire.
Think we could do better than him !
Seems a lot of money for a 28 year old
King would be a great asset for Fulham, 10 times better than slow plodding Mitro
Where are the two new CB I we need desperately keep looking at Odoi and LeMarchand as cover Oh dear very worried if Hector gets injured King not good enough
I don’t know about Josh King, but what we all know, is that we need some new central defenders. I know he is ex-Chelsea but Ivanovich is a free agent and would work well with VVM. However the bad news is that it has been rejected by the algorithm that is Tony Khan!
Tony Khan, you talk the talk now go and walk the walk and get us 2 good quality centre backs otherwise we are going to have a repeat of 2 seasons ago. Ream has been a good servant to the club but has no pace and the thought of Odoi and le Marchand as cover scares me to death. If you love this club as much as you say you do, do something and soon please
The players that gave us true supporters the best 3 out of 4 seasons in our long history seem to be getting stupid comments buy wannabee managers that frankly don’t have a clue, I still see Dennis leaping and glancing the ball into Derby’s net, think you should show a little more loyalty to players that fight for and love our club.