Fulham head coach Marco Silva shared his frustration over Fulham’s slow progress in the transfer window and ended reports of any interest in Juventus forward Moise Kean during his press conference this afternoon.
The Whites are in dire need of strikers after selling Aleksandar Mitrovic to Al-Hilal for around £46m last weekend – and Silva reiterated his concerns about a lack of summer recruitment to supplement the squad that finished tenth in the Premier League last weekend. He said:
“I think everyone understands that it should have been our priority last month or a month and a half ago, so what it is now? Seven players left our football club at the end of the season. We sold another player in Mitrovic. When you lose seven players, and another one, and we just signed three players. It’s clear for everyone how many players we need and that we are really light. We have lots of positions to cover. It is not just the striking position, we need many things and this is not the normal thing to do in the last eight days of the market.”
Silva denied that he was interested in a reunion with Kean, who he managed during his time at Everton.
“Moise Kean is not the solution for us. I don’t like to speak about players that are not our players. He is a Juventus player but I can confirm he is not the player we are looking for. If we are going to sign a striker, it has to be the right one. It has to be someone to come to have an impact in our squad. I don’t want to sign players just ‘to sign.”
This article could’ve been a re-run from last season. If I was Silva, I would go somewhere else.
I fear for Fulham this season. We did so well last year on a thin squad and Silva proved to the FFC board and fans that he is the man for the job. He backed this up by staying at the club despite interest from Saudi.
The FFC recruitment team have had long enough to get new players and as usual will leave it to the very end and we will pay inflated prices. We do this every year….
I do not think we have a enough time to replace Mitro, we are left with 2 unproven Brazilians and I fear we will get relegated.
Maybe time for a ‘Support The Manager You Chose’ type of banner? We love him!
We have one of the best managers for years. We have had our best season for a decade and here we are with an absolute joke of a transfer situation AGAIN.
Said it before but we got away with a thin squad last year. Nobody expected Tete, Robinson, Ream, Tosin, HR to step up like they did.
I just don’t get it. The sums of money in football if we get relegated vs a top manager and stability and we’ve left it to the last minute quibbling AGAIN.
If Marco does stay then he’s gone after this season you can’t do another transfer window with these clowns and all for quibbling over a few million here and there for young talent like Hudson-Odoi. Literally pathetic.
It’s much worst than last year, it was a bit late but in our first game v Liverpool Palhinha Pereira played Rodak started in goal not a bad keeper. Leno started next game and we had not lost our main striker or Kebano. Soloman came on from bench
Birmingham just signed Stanno on loan. I hope recruitment know what they’re doing…
Recruitment haven’t got a clue and as long as TK is in charge things will never change he just keeps making the same mistakes every transfer window, and I can’t see us keeping Marco as long as TK is in charge, we should have been pushing for European places this season but that’s not going to happen while he is in charge of recruitment, he just doesn’t understand the importance of getting players in early in the season, and I don’t think he ever will.
I don’t think TK cares if we stay up. The club is cheaper to run in the Championship, especially with the parachute payments. For him, we’re no different than pretend wrestling.
The doom and gloom from commenters on these articles is abhorrent. This is absolutely what a manager needs to say, even if he’d had 5 through the door already he’d be saying the exact same thing.
When did our supporters start believing we have the same money as the top 6? We absolutely have to “quibble” over a few million here and there, it’s the financially responsible thing to do. When we overspent and got 10 through the door we got relegated. When we left it late and got the right players at the right prices last two years we’ve been promoted and finished 10th.
I’m not saying it wouldn’t be nice to get top players bedded in early, or that it isn’t frustrating to be linked to a billion players and see three of the them sign before the last week of August, but my lord our supporters need to take a deep breath. Count to 10. We’re going to be alright.
I hope CauleyWoodrowIsMint is right. I am an optimist, too, but I don’t see us repeating last year’s recruiting success. It was an exception during TK’s reign. As for the season, I think we stay up, but it will be too much excitement at the wrong end of the table.
Cauley might be right in we get the signings through the door we absolutely need. But I disagree Marco is just saying these things anyway and we should have lost Hudson Odoi for 2million.
We’ve lost 8 first teamers and signed 3. It’s arguable only Bassey is a prem starter. We have gone backwards unless 5 turn up. With a week to go this is NOT normal. Will it happen? Some will turn up. Will they improve the squad? Have we peed off Marco? We’ll see…..