Fulham will try and land Olympique Lyonnais’ starlet Rayan Cherki in the summer having failed with a late bid for the French youth international on deadline day, according to Alan Nixon.
The Whites made a concerted effort to sign the 20 year-old attacking midfielder, who can also play on the wings, but were frustrated initially by Lyon’s asking price and then the fact that the hold-up over Said Benrahma’s loan switch from West Ham United meant the Ligue 1 strugglers were unwilling to let Chekri leave even on loan. Fulham have watched the talented youngster regularly over the last couple of seasons, like a host of English and European clubs, and will look to sign him again in the close season.
Marco Silva is already planning a significant rebuild of his ageing squad over the summer having been frustrated in his attempts to add new signings in January due to worries over Fulham’s financial fair play position.
I struggle to understand how the financial situation magically transforms itself in the summer. If we had to haggle down Chelsea’s loan fee for Broja to nearly nothing how was Cherki to be afforded and to suddenly decide that we wanted him hours before the window closed suggests the “interest” was never real or our recruiters are even more inept than I thought.
To answer Tony two things happen in the summer that dramatically changes our FFP situation.
FFP works on a 3 year period and in 21/22 Fulham made a big loss of £57m (before allowable deductions). The next 3 year period will not include that loss whereas the last did.
In the last period Fulham only had a FFP allowed loss of £83m because one of those years was in the Championship. In the next 3 year period Fulham have a FFP allowed loss of £105m because all 3 years are in the Premier League.
The whole thing is a joke we are now talking about who we will sign in the summer and we all know we will wait until the last minute and then come up with the same old excuses I’m sick and tired of it all.
We all know that Tony Khan has his pet projects and the Fulham Football Team is not a priority with him, as JB has stated our recruitment planning and funding is a joke. Ask the question how we got into this situation and the answer is TONY KHAN.
Sick and tired of the gossip and rumour which always turns into nothing. Just start the last minute trolley dash as usual on the last day of the window and be done.
You’ve said it all.
Fulham is TK’s plaything when he’s not with his priority projects. We’ll never be anything until we get a full-time DoF and the funds to support our ambitions.
Summer will be the last-minute supermarket dash again with no real joined-up thinking to what we’re doing.
I Still think we should have brought back Jay Stansfield from Birmingham he’s Fulham thru and thru and it would have saved the club a bit of money TonyMowbray has given him loads of praise every time he speaks on theTV or have we going to lose him like Elliott and Carvalho