MLS outfit Vancouver Whitecaps have offered Fulham centre back Luc de Fougerolles a long-term contract in audacious attempt to lure the Canadian international away from Craven Cottage this summer, according to the Athletic.
The nineteen year-old, currently starring for Jesse Marsch’s side in the Gold Cup, met with Whitecaps representatives last week and is keeping his options open, according to Joshua Kloke. The Battersea-born defender’s current Fulham deal expires at the end of the month and the Premier League club have offered their academy graduate new terms that he is expected to sign.
de Fougerolles, enjoying his first taste of a major tournament and regular football again after eight months out with an untimely knee injury, tells the Athletic that he wants to stay with the Whites but believes he is ready for first-team football.
“It’s obviously not fully my decision to make. If Fulham want me around, I’ll gladly stay and be around the team. But a loan would be amazing. Just to play 40 professional games, I feel like that’s part of the game that maybe I’m missing with Under-21s. It’s less competitive. So if I were to go to a League One or a Championship team, I think every game would be competitive and that experience would really put me on a good start.”
Fulham were exploring a domestic loan last season before de Fougerolles suffered the first serious injury of his burgeoning career and are understand to be keen to explore that market once more, with their intelligent defender fully aware that regular game time will help him hold onto a spot in Marsch’s plans ahead of next summer’s World Cup.
We need to start giving our good young players game time or we will always be a selling club, we can’t keep losing our best young players for very little money.
Hope he gets his loan move and that he stays with FFC. He’s definitely got what it takes to play for the first team sooner or later. Also seems like a nice kid with a good attitude.
Here we go again this lad is a very good footballer and this can’t keep happening we may as well tell every club in world don’t worry we will bring him on as a player then you can steel him for nothing
Give him a 3/4 year contract but guarantee he will sent out on loan next season to a lower division club to gain valuable experience
Got to hold onto this kid
Are we a feeder club for the premiership
Various reports state that one of the positions we need to strengthen is centre back. Fig Roles has played many first team minutes already and was very impressive – appears to have ‘an old head’ on those teenage shoulders. I believe we should start bringing him in next season in the centre of our defence. With him and Josh King we have two players that will save us millions in the transfer market – or we risk losing them like Jay Stansfield, Harvey Elliott and Matt O’Riley. Our coach seems to be against bringing in youngsters – why???
COYW!!!
Extend his contract for 3 years then give him the loan option to Vancouver with a clause that he always plays when fit