Fulham boss Scott Parker said he was ‘disappointed’ with the club’s vice-chairman Tony Khan decision to apologise for his side’s performance in last night’s 3-0 defeat at the hands of Aston Villa.
Khan, the club’s director of football operations and son of owner Shahid Khan, took to Twitter immediately after the final whistle at Craven Cottage to apologise to supporters for another heavy Fulham defeat and pledging to sign reinforcements as well as ensure better performances from his players. Parker, who told the written media last night that the tweet was ‘not ideal,’ told the press during this afternoon’s press conference ahead of the weekend clash with Wolves that he disagreed with Khan junior’s actions.
Parker, who is still waiting for the club to bring in central defensive reinforcements since he guided Fulham back to the Premier League side via the Championship play-offs last month, said:
I think obviously I said it last night. People have the platform. You own a football club, you can decide how you want to communicate or send a message out. It’s not something I agree with, it’s not helpful from that sense but like I said that’s down to the owner and how he sees it.
There’s one thing that I’m disappointed with and that’s how he’s actually apologising for the performance and that is something that I don’t agree with and he shouldn’t have. The performance last night was a good performance which was a group of players who have done everything they can, worked tirelessly from the first minute to the 95th. From 3-0 down they were still trying work as much as they can to try and get us back in the game and for that I don’t agree with him.
Fulham are now rock bottom of the top flight, following three defeats from their first three fixtures and have conceded ten goals. Parker told the press that the club were still working on potential signings. Brazilian defender Marlon failed a medical last week, scuppering a proposed move from Sassuolo, whilst the Whites have been linked with Wolves’ Ryan Bennett and Scott Dann of Crystal Palace today.
We were in the market since Wembley. The people in the club are working their hardest. Hopefully we can get some help.
Mark my words: “ he’s gonna get himself fire for his lack of self-assessment, there’s no way that what happen yesterday, received a “was a good performance” by the Gaffer. With that mentality it’s gonna be a LONG SEASON.
I think Scott knows that the performance was pathetic at best, but after Tony’s tweet he had to step in to defend his players so that the belief and fight can stay within the dressing room, which obviously did not happen last time around.
It looks like history could be repeating itself again with our failed transfer policy-I mean that pathetic video on the website from Tony Khan was embarrassing at best. Scott had to persuade him to take Josh Onahma. Tony must think he is F****** Diego
maradona!
Tony just stick to the wrestling-ademola Lookman isn’t what’s needed. We couldn’t be more amateurish if we were to get some nursery school kids to run our transfer business.
And do you know what, if Scott leaves us we won’t even be able to get a half decent replacement who would be able to work with our director of f***-ups!
Maybe if we ask nicely the Premier League will give us the rest of the season off…
I agree i am sick of listening to the shit coming out of Khans mouth and we don’t want to hear all his excuses for not being able to get defenders in that’s supposed to be his job for f-sake, now he is going to start panic buying more rubbish players because he couldn’t get off his ass before we got in this mess we are now in, he has to go as he is clueless.
If I read the Khan tweet right, two defenders couldn’t be signed because of Covid tests being positive. How long does it take them to get over Covid? The statement and contradiction from Parker are making the club nearly as much of a laughing stock as the defence. What’s hard to understand is that anyone who watched them last season knew that two centre backs were needed as priority, yet there seems to have been no planning or action to get them before the start of the season. Waiting to deadline day means 4 , probably 5 league games will have passed before anyone can be brought into the team, and the quality available on deadline day will be varied at best.
How Tony Khan still has Fulham supporters sticking up for him is beyond me! TIFF is full of them. He has to go and so does Parker, neither of them are good enough and their players aren’t either!!!
Scott Parker did not disagree with T.Khan’s comments when interviewed on TV after the Villa fiasco. It looks like he has gone home, watched himself being interviewed and coming across as a yes man, had a long chat with his wife, re-looked at his new 3 year contract with a magnifying glass and decided that, to retain any credibility, he needed to disagree with Khan’s comments at the next available opportunity-which he duly did.
Brave man!
He would do well to remember that there is no room for disagreement and certainly no sentiment in the Khan’s world.
Martin Jol -“Martin has the experience to guide us forward”-Shahid Khan -shortly before firing Job
Rene Meulensteen – “Rene has my 100% support”- Shahid Khan -shortly before bringing in, arguably, the worst manager in Fulham history, Felix Magath
Felix Magath -“We need a manager with proven experience re relegation”-Shahid Khan before hiring Magath and BEFORE firing Meulensteen. Well, we certainly got a manager with proven experience re relegation as he promptly got us relegated. After losing the first 4 games of the following season, Khan had this to say: “Felix has my 100% support”. Then he promptly fired him
Kit Symons-promoted from within on a trial basis so that Khan could evaluate his ability. Made permanent manager shortly after: “I recognise Kit’s passion for everything Fulham” -Shahid Khan. Fired shortly after
Slaviska Jovanovic-arguably the best manager Fulham have had-was “a gentleman who has managed to galvanise our team in the later stages of the season so that we have reached the playoffs twice. He is the man to lead us in the Premiership”-Shahid Khan. Slav was sacked 4 months later-a week after this comment: “Any speculation about Slav’s continuing as our manager is sensational and fictional”- Shahid Khan. Then he fired him. From my point of view, I believe that Slav’s downfall was due to not agreeing with Khan Junior’s Moneyball transfer philosophy and for not being able to integrate the 100 million pounds worth of dross that Khan Junior had dumped on him
Claudio Ranieri -“We have done our due diligence and Claudio is risk free and ready-made” -Shahid Khan. He lasted 4 months before getting the boot. Worth noting that Ranieri publicly stated that Fulham needed to bring in new players in the January window. That wasn’t appreciated after Khan Junior’s spending spree just a few months earlier. In the event, Khan Junior, in a serious attempt to prevent us from being relegated, promptly secured the services of, wait for it: Ryan Babel on loan and Markovic from Liverpool. Who, you ask? Markovic-who never even played. That’s how serious the Khans were about saving our Premiership skin
Now Parker has spoken out and the staff and players have been publicly castigated by Khan Junior, it will be interesting to watch the repercussions but, whatever may happen, when it comes to butting heads with the Khans, there is only ever one winner
Interesting comment from Charles. Hadn’t realised quite how close the Khan’s comments were to them firing the managers.
Nobody can keep these Fulham players in the Premier League. I suspect Scott knows it too. So what does Scott have to lose? No point in having the season we’re about to have on your managerial CV. So having signed that nice contract, might as well say what you think. We desperately need 3 or 4 quality players to have even a remote chance…personally I can’t see anyone signing up to odds on relegation unless they’re desperate or overpaid. Some bookmakers this morning have us 1/5 to get relegated. I think it is already too late. Just use the money to bring in young players that will stay if we go down. Anything else will be too little too late. TK is a joke.
Yes Dave , TK is a disaster for Fulham! But look at all the posters jumping to his defence on TIFF and Friends of Fulham! Tell me these fan boards aren’t run by the club !!!