Fulham made an offer of around £15m for Porto’s Serbian international midfielder Marko Grujic, according to reports from Portugal this morning.
Record – which carried the latest news on Joao Palhinha’s potential move to Craven Cottage – says that Marco Silva’s Premier League newcomers have been in touch with the Lions about the former Liverpool youngster. Grujic, a long-term Fulham transfer target from his days in England, made his switch to Portugal last July permanent after an impressive loan spell at Porto in 2020.
The 26 year-old, a product of Red Star Belgrade’s prodigious academy, helped the Dragons win the domestic double last season and has long been tipped as a future star having won the FIFA U20 World Cup in 2015 in the same year that he led Red Star to the Serbian title. The 6ft 3in imposing midfielder, dubbed ‘the new Nemanja Matic’ in his homeland, played a key part in Serbia’s qualification for the World Cup in Qatar and Porto are reluctant to part with his services. Fulham’s initial offer was turned down – and it remains to be seen whether they will return given Silva’s positive discussions with Palhinha.
For christ sake sign someone not keep on talking about it. So many players mentioned, none signed. Come on Mr Khan, make a positive decision
Totally right what the hell is going on here again as Alan said are we really going to sign anybody this is typical of Tony Khan’s attitude towards Fulham The Supporters and the team his attitude is we will just give the supporters a taster but not really himwe are doing I blame his Dad for giving him the job and being at our great club
Rumour after rumour after rumour. Just a repeat of our last 2 promotions so far.
Maybe they are waiting for a buy one get one free offer!!!!
Calm down. Even before this summer’s offerings ( Manor Solomon, Thomas Strakosha, Neco Williams, al-Musrati etc) do you not remember the likes of Claudio Reyna, Diego Rolan and John Carew ?
It’s not easy getting deals done , particularly early on . We cant force players to sign. The good ones we would like will be suspicious of our yo-yo reputation.
Their agents will want a cut of the money too.
Agents with good players on their books know there are likely to be several offers for their players to consider. We could overpay and spend ridiculous money on transfer fee and unsustainable wages, but that may reduce the amount of money available for other priority areas and screw us up with FFP later on. We didnt exactly get good value out of Anguissa, Seri and Mawson ( though to be fair , the latter was appallingly unlucky with injury). Our spending has to be managed carefully.
Whilst it wont make easy reading, most mid to lower Premier League clubs ( not just ours) will likely do the majority of business towards the end of the transfer window when players’ options are narrowing
Once again we are a laughing stock because of Tony Khan I wish his Father would give his job to someone who knows what they are doing. We have been linked with hundreds of players and are yet to sign a single one whilst most of the other premiership teams are bringing in players with no difficulty,TK is bloody useless and once again we will be playing catch up he hasn’t got a clue about football matters,
What’s this?? Palhinha is way better player… Grujic it’s not bad… But well same old story… Please sign a player for God’s sake… Marco must be starting to see TK is not delivering…. It will be a tough season if we continue like this…
I’m not usually one to ‘jump on the bandwagon’, but the total lack of signings so far leaves me worried. This lad Palhinha looks a good start, and I would love to think that Grujic will form part of a useful midfield engine. But we still need a centre back to go alongside Tosin, who was very good playing with Joachim Anderson. I liked the look of Al Musrati (but that seems to have ‘gone quiet’) – I was also impressed by William Carvalho (but again…). We need another top class keeper (I love Marek, but we’re in The Premiership now and need competition for places). Another striker to assist Mitro would make sense to me also. As some of the guys have pointed out we are hearing nothing from Tony Khan, except of course his ‘broadside’ at Deliveroo for their cheeky relegation joke. Tony mate their comment was just a bit of banter, and only what the majority of football fans will be thinking anyway. There’s only one way to shut them up: put out a team that competes, so stop sitting on your hands and sign us players who will make us proud.
By the time you make your mind up these players will have signed up with our competitors which will make it twice as frustrating. Get it sorted
I see we are now being linked to Phil Jones another old injury prone player just the sort of player TK would lumber us with, we still have Kongolo on the payroll and what a waste of money he is ffs.
Mr Khan if your not prepared to bite the bullet and buy these players your ‘in talks’ with while you can would you let ‘us’ the supporters and the heart if the club, know why you’re dithering again.
This cant go on much longer I know other clubs are in the same boat but I am sure Marco Silva would want to the signings in quickly to gell them in with the rest of the team before the first game I cannot believe this is happening again three promotions and this Man TK is still at our club we are a laughing stock the person to blame is his Dad by not getting rid of him for using Fulham as his toy to play with he is now taking the mickey out of the supporters and the Club at least have some guts and speak to the Fans thru the Media if not just go I am sure most Fulham Supporters would pay for his Taxi to the Station Tell us why TK