Fulham and Marco Silva are split over Joao Palhinha’s future, according to the Evening Standard.
Bayern Munich are poised to try and sign the Portuguese international in January having seen their late summer swoop for the defensive midfielder fall through last Friday. The Standard suggests that Fulham are open to selling the former Sporting midfielder but that head coach Silva ‘does not want to lose him’.
This development follows the Athletic’s Peter Rutzler revealing earlier this week that Silva did not wish to sign Callum Hudson-Odoi and Lucas Ocampos, who were the subject of protracted transfer negotiations during the summer.
If those good for nothing imbeciles in recruitment can come up with a list of proper alternatives for Palhinha, then I’m all for it. Otherwise it’s a no go unless we have collected enough points by christmas to be safe. The most likely scenario though is, that we sell Palhinha in January, do our business too late (as usual) and throw it all away Fulhamish-style.
Player power rules. If player says i want out and downs tools theres nought club can do
If this article has any credibility then Silva must feel he has enough influence with Palhinha to persuade him to stay. If so I’d suggest it’s a no brainer.
We need 3-4 years in this league to have any chance of building a squad capable of competing. We have already lost Mitro and not adequately replaced him losing our best player and then potentially the coach would be stupid and likely only end badly
We had 2 top assets. Mitro and Palhinia. We sold Mutro without a replacement and then went all summer faffing about with a scatter gun recruitment process trying to under bid for players.
If you were highly ambitious would you stay? Does Fulham look like a club going places? We had the perfect opportunity to build after the heroics last season and we failed. This will cost us more in the long run than the millions needed to bring in what we needed.
Absolute stupidity.
Is Daddy Khan so thick to know, that his wonder son is playing at his parttime job? It’s time for him to take action and employ a proper, fulltime, football person as DoF who is base in ENGLAND. Or is Daddy too scared that the boy child will throw all his toys out of the pram?
this club is going tits up, pushed , pulled cajoled,dragged driven by useless club management.
We’re known inDecember who right if Silva gets him playing again great . If he’s not the same player and sulks we may all be glad to see the back of him. But why are Silva or the Khans making there minds up now. They should be making sure we do well rest of year. Or we could be deep in the brown stuff before the next window and it really won’t matter,Fed up with hearing about it, one thing I do know Fans , Silva , Khan, players, have all got to stick together .
Boy Khan is a liability. He clearly has no idea or interest in running our great club.
The only legacy the Khans will leave is the new stand.
Marco must be looking at his options and who can blame him with these idiots in charge
Was hopeful we could move upward in the table this year and build on the results of last year. However, it seems we have given up much more than we gained and expect this will be a most difficult year. Not sure why we did not sign Solomon and not sure why we did not find a suitable striker to replace Mitro. It’s early days, but we have already given up 10 goals in just 4 games. Careful with the fingernails, this year is going to be a nail-biting affair.
What a bunch of misery. Cheer up and support the team.
Well said Fulhamboy1, I do not understand those fans going on about the Khans
who with Marco are not responsible for players tugging and kissing the FFC badge
one day and wanting to leaving the next.These players are well paid and really
do not have FFC at heart Marco could have gone but is presently still with us
that is a true sign of loyalty. FFC FOREVER.
I hope we don’t lose Palhina in January but if he doesn’t want to play for us then we have plenty of time to scour the market for a suitable replacement for him and Mitro and if the idiots in charge can’t do this with all the time they have then sack them and get a new recruitment team in, the Khan’s have no ambitions to improve our team and we won’t attract quality players unless they up their game. It’s time for them to prove their ambition for our club.
I think a big dose of realism is needed here. In this day and age players are the tail that wags the dog. I’d personally love to have the man management skills to get anyone to do something they didn’t want to. What player, given the choice, would rather play for FFC over Bayern Munich. I doubt Marco, with his all ability, can either.
As for Tony Khan , he’s running a business, and whilst I’m sure he wouldn’t want to lose star players, will nevertheless take solace in a stonking profit. FFC don’t often achieve one of them in the transfer market.
Be honest – can you blame Joao for wanting out of a sinking ship captained by the idiot boy Khan. If Marco’s got any sense he’ll be next.
So so sad as we had the makings of something really good here …
I’m not sure of Ocampos but Odoi would not be a good fit for us. Neither are Palhinha worthy.
To see Holjberg waiting behind Hervertz’s underwhelming field presence (seen at the Emirates) is disconcerting as a target. ManU won’t let McTominay lace up for a competitor.
Thus, why should we replace our star player with another’s bench warmer?
So, the best way to get Palhinha playing Champions League again is via Fulham. Aim is top four.
Not inconceivable with Raul & Adama as a strike force and Iwobi. Pereira, Wilson, Willan and De Cordova-Reid offering differing attack options. Vinícius’ height as well.
Balanced by a very strong defensive corps Bassey, Ream, Diop – with old-fashion wingbacks like Tete, Robinson + Castagne to discourage opposition presses.
Ballo-Touré has good credentials!
Further discouragement whilst offering pace and guile in the centre of the pitch is a very good group to choose from, namely Palhiha, Reed, Lukic, Cairney. Luke Harris, as an understudy, held his own against the best in the world last Sat.
All backstopped by 3X Europa League Bernd Leno.
Arsenal does seem weaker this year. ManU are grappling for cohesion. Liverpool is reinventing a totally new midfield. Spurs a new team. And Chelsea lack critical day-game leadership from the bench.
The stars could well be aligning for Fulham and Palhinha – or maybe I’m just seeing stars. Interesting times.