Fulham have immediately rejected Al-Hilal’s £25.5m bid for striker Aleskandar Mitrovic and insist the Serbian striker is not for sale.
Al-Hilal, who also targeted Fulham head coach Marco Silva this summer, are keen to sign the 28 year-old forward and have the resources of the state-owned Public Investment Fund, the major backer behind Newcastle United, to spend. Although Mitrovic is reported to be open to a move to Saudi Arabia, Fulham consider themselves in a strong position as the former Newcastle United centre forward is under contract at Craven Cottage until 2026 and the Whites consider Al-Hilal’s initial offer to be derisory.
Fulham are not countenancing selling Mitrovic, who has scored 111 goals in 204 games since moving to west London initially on loan in January 2018, and Silva considers the striker central to his future plans.
Under no circumstances should we allow Mitro to leave. It then could b vthe end of Marco Silva. Lets Hope Mitro shows us loyalty
The Saudi money could make Mitro unsettled at the club if he really wants to leave and isn’t allowed. If he does leave for Saudi, I will be disappointed in him, not the club. On the other hand, Mitro has made recruiting a striker of similar quality impossible since he was a guaranteed starter; could it perhaps work out for the best if we could wring as much as we can out of the Saudis and then get two good strikers to compete with each other?
Double it.
Triple it
I hope we don’t sell Mitro and why is it taking forever to give Marco Silva a new contract what is wrong with our club why does every thing take so long to get done we are a laughing stock ffs hurry up and get this sorted out.
I find it rather disturbing to think Mitro is even considering leaving. It was not long ago when not long ago he pledged his love of Fulham. If we do have no,alternative butnto,posenhim lets put a 80m fee on his head. Also no development in Silva signing a new contract and no update on Willian’s response to the offer of an improved contract. What is going on with our club. Additionally a lot of rumours about incoming but none nearer to coming to fruition
I keep hearing about we’re looking at him or thinking of signing him again nobody signed but all the news is about people wanting to leave are we actually going to sign anybody the priority is Marco Silva the club has not stated about his new contract and has Willian signed yet? This Mitro news is worrying as was news of Palinha are the club going to let this happen Tony Khan Penny pinching yet again feel for everybody who bought a season ticket in the new stand
Mitrovic should show commitment and categorically refuse any offer after all the patience and loyality shown by Fulham FC during Mitro’s irregular service to the club
Dought Mitro will go..
He with give it at least another year.
Loyalty counts. ?
I think there’s a lot of hypocrisy spoken about player loyalty. How many of us would turn down an offer that would double or treble our income because we thought we should stay out of loyalty to our employer. The sort of money the Saudis offer players and coaches for working there for two or three years will set them up for life.
If a player wants to leave it’s generally better to let them go rather than have an unsettled player in the squad.
I personally would hate to live in Saudi or any of the states round there, but if I was offered millions for two or three years work well……
Hopefully, he won’t go.
But, if he were to go, the fee would need to be three times what was mentioned.
Mitro is the third fastest to 50 international goals (76 games) behind Neymar (74) and Kane (71) and that is playing for Serbia (ranked 25) rather than Brazil (ranked 3) or England (ranked 4).
He would be cheap at £75m…
Mitro already showed us his loyalty. If he wants another challenge well good luck to him. The club have never had a back up for him and this was always going to happen.
It’s the timing as well which annoys me. If he wants to go I’d insist that he plays for us this year and if he wants to go to a far more lucrative contract in the Middle East we will agree a £price (circa £80 million for him to leave next May. That allows us to plan properly. Sorry Mitro you’re under contract. See levy with Kane as an example..