Barcelona’s Brazilian goalkeeper Neto is deciding whether to join Fulham or Napoli after his heavily-trailed move to Celta Vigo fell through, according to reports from Spain.
The 33 year-old had been expected to become Rubén Blanco’s replacement at Celta, but Barcelona’s refusal to pay up the final year of his current contract due to their financial situation scuppered that deal. Celta Vigo have now moved on to other targets, according to Faro de Vigo, which leaves the Brazilian international pondering whether to ply his trade in the Premier League or Serie A.
Neto, who made his professional debut aged nineteen for Athletico Paranaense after coming through the Cruzeiro youth set up, has already spent seven years in Italy with Fiorentina and Juventus. He was largely second choice in Serie A but starred in his two years with Valencia before joining Barcelona in 2019. Neto, a silver medallist at the London 2012 Olympics, has won a single senior cap for his country and has 21 senior appearances in three seasons at the Camp Nou.
Fulham are keen to add depth to their goalkeeping resources ahead of their return to the top flight and remain in discussions with Arsenal over their wantaway German international Bernd Leno. The Whites were linked with another loan for Sergio Rico yesterday – with Marco Silva apparently unconvinced by Marek Rodak’s Premier League credentials.
Here we go again!
This one just CAN’T be true surely.
This guy can’t hold a ball.
He makes saves but pushes the ball back into dangerous areas.
He opts to punch shots that most keepers would catch with ease.
Liability, liability, liability!
God, give me strength!
What the fuck is wrong with marek ?
The guy is an international keeper and never lets the team down .
Parker has gone now so why not reward the guy with the jersey for the start of the seasn . He deserves it .
if I was him I would tell Khan to fuck himself and put in for a transfer
Why are we always wanting players that other clubs don’t want,? I am getting sick of the whole thing, we have wasted so much time chasing free transfers and arguing over the cost of others,just hurry up and get a couple of proper players in,is that too much to ask.
AKA Back-of-the-neto
As a person born and raised in Barcelona b4 moving to London, and a huge FC Barcelona fan, I just can’t believe these news are real. Neto has been pushed off from club due to his high wages for a backup, so I just don’t see FFC taking that risk in an unproved gk in PL.
IMHO the Neto and Rico movements are just a trick to make Arsenal accept their bid for Leno before he leaves for free at the end of season!
Still waitting for a CB by the way….
I do not understand why we are being linked with players inferior to Bernd Leno when he has apparently agreed terms with us. Surely an agreement can be agreed with Arsenal that suits all parties.
If Leno or someone of the same calibre is unreachable, Rodak should be our custodian. He deserves a chance.
This is so frustrating. Does Tony Kahn understand we are now in The Premier League of English Football? If Leno is valued at 15M and we want him then we need to get close to Arsenal’s valuation. Same with Diop etc.
Playing games pretending to look at other players may work in the US but it won’t work here !! Forest have signed 10 quality players, we have signed 2 and have one on loan (Solomon). We need to get serious or it will end in tears.
I hear that Tesco and Aldi and also available.
Hedger has point. Posturing isn’t the same as signing. We can’t compete without actually bringing talent into the squad.
The whole Fulham Transfer Saga has gone from Sublime to Ridiculous we will go back to the Championship Marco will get sacked but Tony our director of Football Egotistical Khan will keep his job as I have said before Promises made by him have now been broken he answers only to his Dad then that’s the problem they will not fill the new stand if it goes belly up
This a signing that would be utter nonsense rather stick with Rodak. We will end up signing players nobody else wants out of pure desperation
The best signings we could make this year is a new Director of Football, Head Scout and CEO. Daddy Khan please act now.
I heard of stupid but this possible signing takes the biscuit. Sign a quality keeper like Leno or use Rodak who is far from hopeless. How many players have the other promoted teams Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth signed compared with us, a lot more some of the those players would have been useful acquisitions for us. I feel very sorry for Marco Silva who must be more than fed up with the situation. We have been here twice before in recent times
been a fulham fan over 65 years and season ticket holder for many years now and agree with all the above looking how we stand at the moment might be a good idea to pop down to the bookies to see what odds we are for relegation the way things are going at the moment it could be worth a few bob
With Ream in the squad we need to play two goalkeepers!
We don’t want Neto or Rico and if they are the best our head scout can come up with then sack him because he hasn’t got a clue, play Rodak and get 2 proven centre backs instead and get a bloody move on it will soon be Xmas at the speed we are moving at ffs.
You really don’t know what’s going on and that’s the problem…. OK Leno 15m and Pope 10 11m maybe a problem but if Leno is 11m for f…. sake just buy him