Fulham captain Tom Cairney has agreed a one-year contract extension, according to Jack Kelly.
The Scottish midfielder has put pen to paper on a deal extending his stay with the Whites into an eleventh season. The 34 year-old joined Fulham in 2014 from Blackburn Rovers and has made 346 appearances, scoring 46 goals. Cairney, who has led the Whites to three promotions from the Championship, has played a pivotal role in Fulham’s revival under Marco Silva, playing some of the finest football of a storied career in a deeper midfield role since the Cottagers returned to the top flight in 2021.
The peerless playmaker has made 101 top-flight appearances under Silva, scoring six times, and partnered teenage talent Josh King, who held his hand as a mascot ahead of the 2018 play-off semi-final second leg against Derby seven years, when Fulham’s latest academy graduate made his first Premier League start against Southampton in December. Cairney is now nineteenth on the club’s all-time leading appearance list, just ten behind the late Jim Langley.
Think FFN got it before Jack.
Think FFN got it first
I have immense respect for Cairney for his contribution to our club, but to be honest i cannot see how he can have another premier league season in his legs. Everytime he comes on it’s always lateral and back passes, snail slow pace and a fear of committing himself into tackles. When we are defending the result this may work but in my opinion his playing days are over.
There is no place for sentiment in football. Another unbelievable piece of negotiation by the Club. At 34 why wouldn’t TC want to sign an extension. Another 3 to 5 mill in the bank. All he has to do is turn up on a daily basis for training and play the odd 5 minutes here and there, nice work if you can get, but how does that help the team? In the meantime, he’s blocking Fulham youth players like King.
I’ve no problem if he was to go into coaching but he see’s his future career in the media, like being on Sky’s football panels as he was last night.
Well done Fulham – you can’t buy 300+ plus game experience – well done our Captain coywwwwwww
Thank God I don’t know Simon and Martin
Ah! Jim Langley. That name brings back memories.
Legs so bandy he”couldn’t stop a pig in a passage”, but he was pretty nippy all the same.
Simon and Martin?? ‘Hello darkness my old friend’
Jim Langley, what a great player and in my opinion best left back that has ever played for Fulham.
I’m sure, or hopefully, that he brings something to the dressing room if nothing else.
It’s traditional for loyal and long serving employees to receive some acknowledgment of their past service. This is how footballers are rewarded when they have displayed loyalty to a club, and there won’t be many recipients in the modern game.
Well done Tom and thanks.
Oh Captain, my Captain!!
I think TC has served the club well and maybe it’s time to give up the captains armband as we go into a new era for Fulham And TCs last season he can help the new captain but it must be Marcos decision