Marco Silva has reiterated that he would like to add a winger to Fulham’s squad before the end of the summer transfer window.
Speaking ahead of this evening’s trip to Birmingham City in the League Cup, the Fulham head coach confirmed that the Whites were keen to sign a replacement for Bobby De Cordova-Reid and Willian, who both left the club on free transfers during the summer.
Silva said:
“We have to look at different players, because it’s not easy. We know the profile we need — that is clear — but, of course, at this stage of the market, it’s not always easy for us as a club to find the player we want and say: ‘Okay, let’s take him’. From a business point of view, it’s not always possible.
You have to have different solutions for the position that we want to fill. It’s clear in that attacking line it’s one player that we need. Let’s see if we are going to get one of the main ones or if we have to go in a different direction.”
He also insisted that the Cottagers were never close to completing a deal for Brazilian international Andre despite being heavily linked with a move for the Fluminese midfielder over the past eighteen months. “You like sometimes to create your own stories. Keep creating, keep doing it. I will not mention any player who is not our player.”
Papering over the shortage of centre forwards once again.
Fulham need another striker badly and should have been buying Jonathan David for £25m. A proven goal scorer.I don’t see the need for yet another winger had young academy players for that role who need experience in the first team.How will these youngsters improve and progress if they don’t get a route to the first team.
We just need a proven goal scorer, missed so many chances on Saturday 🙁
I agree it’s a proven goalscorer that we need not a winger.
We need a LW and a striker, especially a LW as if something happens to Iwobi we have no direct cover as the only one is ESR who best position is at 10.
On paper we have been playing with a worse team than last season. Tosin, Paulinho,Willian and Decordova Reid gone. The only addition we have played with is Smith Rowe. So I think we’ve had a decent start but we need to improve. How long must we wait for Muniz to have another purple patch. He seems to only want to score with a bicycle kick. Need more competition for the strikers role. Unconvinced by Pereira, his free kicks are awful and his corners are worse.
Muniz worked very hard to accomplish someting out of nothing on Saturday. His missed chances were mainly half chances. Agreed, he has some work to do on his use of space in the box but the delivery in to him needed to be better too. A quality left winger can help to supply Muniz with chances that can be converted into goals.
I agree about Pereira he is over rated. His corners are awful and free kicks are no better.
Lukic is improving all the time which is a plus. I would like to see Stansfield start. Also a left winger is essential. Finally Harry Wilson seems to have lost his mojo. He did nothing on Saturday when coming on except get booked. He is better when not playing as a winger
I think Muniz will score but he needs competition for his place whether that will work or not agree we need a winger and a proven striker, why is Wilson not starting he gives a different variation to the team, my main moan is Perreira why does he take every free kick and corner we have never scored from a free kick either directly or a pass surely somebody else can take them
Oh we certainly need a left winger too. Especially when our only option isn’t even a left winger himself! But we as a club constantly use wingers to as cheaper options to cover up our lack of proper forwards season after season.