Fulham are preparing a £10m bid for Juventus winger Samuel Mbangula, according to reports from Italy.
Marco Silva is keen to add a winger to his first-team squad having been left short of wide options last season due to serious injuries afflicting Harry Wilson and Reiss Nelson. The Whites have watched the Belgian under-21 international extensively and view him as a talented youngster, who could add speed and finishing to Fulham’s forward line.
The 21 year-old left winger, who can also play as a second striker or a more conventional number ten, has starred for Juventus’ youth sides for a number of years but broke into the first team with a bang, scoring on his debut against Como on the first day of the Serie A season last August. He scored four goals – and added five assists – in 32 appearances but looks set to move on after Igor Tudor left him out of Juventus’ squad for the Club World Cup second round defeat against Manchester City.
Mbangula had reportedly rejected the chance to join Nottingham Forest as part of £20m double deal involving American forward Timothy Weah. Fulham have already ascertained that Mbangula is available for a permanent transfer this summer following talks with Juventus and believe they can lure him to Craven Cottage. Italian football correspondent Mirko Nicolino reports that the Whites are ready to submit a £10m offer as well as tabling a loan bid – with an option to buy – for Mbangula’s team-mate Douglas Luiz.
Where does this leave Rocco Reitz if we get Douglas Luiz? Still think we will need another winger
It will leave Reitz at his club till we bid for him Slugma don’t believe to we bid for them and then if accepted they got to want to come. No actual bid gone in for these to yet could be someone else tomorrow if we signed all rumours our squad would be to big and we not signed on yet. Have only bid for one player so far striker 13.5m striker rejected weeks ago we’re ment to be putting another bid together needed to be quick to beat West Ham we didn’t and hammers showed no interest
We’re going to do this and we’re going to do that and in reality we’re going to do nothing.
Once again we are the only Premier League side yet to sign anybody, our recruitment is absolutely dreadful. Looking at the very financial article we could sign 7 £25m players and still be within the FFP rules. Get a bloody move on we need new players in for pre season not halfway through September
People seem to forget we finished with our highest ever premier league points totaling what was a season of amazing highs. I sieve the Khans wrote off another huge loan and have invested something in the region of £350 m. How anyone can say recruitment is poor is totally beyond me. Maybe anti American sentiment. Who knows?
The recruitment is poor because we are always last to act in the market, while other clubs recruit early in the window so that new players are bedding in during preseason, our new players arrive late in the window and we are without them for the beginning of the season which poor planning. Whilst we had our best points score last season it was not our best premier league finish. We struggled towards the end of the season and fell away from a very promising position. We lacked depth of squad no replacement for Tete, Wilson or Nelson. We new this and have done nothing to address that situation.
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Please write a list of all the players that have agreed to come to Fulham but the club has been too slow to sign
Well said Dipper some fans can only talk like that because it is not their being used they probably spend their money without any thinking they do not praise the Khans at all our problem is we are not consistent.
Well said David Bedford, spot on. We cannot blame the Khan family as they have invested millions in our club. It is the recruitment team that are always so slow to act.
Manchester City had most of their new recruits done and dusted as soon as last season was over. Same as Liverpool.
I know most of what we read is just paper talk and utter crap about this player and that player. David was just stating that we always leave it to the last minute and end up losing out on good opportunities. We are just like Tottenham, waiting for a last minute bargain buy. These are not always the best choices. Get the players in NOW and bed them in before the new season starts.
You absolutely can blame the Khan family for Fulham’s shambolically slow recruitment process because Tony Khan is the director of football and in charge of the club’s transfer activity.
How can David Bedford be spot on says we don’t sign players early enough. When we start well and full away end of season sounds like signing late makes no difference
I have been a Fulham supporter since the early Sixties and do not believe in paper talk no one knows what is really going on until its done. I do think Tony Khan will support the manager fully and have never heard he has refuse to assist him in signing players it has people who select the we need and want they do their work and he will do his along with the manager.