Fulham are considering a move to sign Swedish striker Jusef Erabi from Hammarby as they struggle to sign players to supplement Marco Silva’s squad.
Silva is seeking a new striker to challenge Raul Jimenez and Rodrigo Muniz this season but the Whites have failed to land a number of targets. Erabi, a Stockholm-born 6ft striker, has shone since breaking into Hammarby’s first-team squad in 2020. He had been left out of Kim Hellberg’s side last month as several Serie A sides and Lens looked at an £8.5m deal but he has returned to the team to score the winner as Bajen came from behind to beat Värnamo before scoring as Hammarby stunned Charleroi in the UEFA Europa Conference League on Thursday night.
Erabi is among a number of names on a shortlist of strikers that the Cottagers are considering. The situation is complicated by the fact that Hammarby are in the running for their first Allsvenskan since 2001 and face Rosenborg in the next round of the Conference League on Thursday. A deal would be contingent on the Whites committing to spend around £10m on the striker as well as loaning him back to Hammarby until the end of the Swedish season.
Hammarby don’t want to lose one of their key players at a crucial stage of their domestic and continental campaign and are mindful of what happened to the last promising striker they sold to Fulham. Bjorn Runstrom joined the Whites at nineteen after being scouted by Chris Coleman – but made just one first-team appearance and eventually returned to Bajen three years later.
Utter nonsense! We don’t have 10m to spend on a player and loan him back.
We shouldn’t be considering anyone now should have done all our considering by now and making offers . Mad article
I’ve commented multiple times, this is why Marco should leave.
Every season he has to put up with Tony Khan/Ali M Championship Manager approach to signings, meaning last minute, as cheap as possible, giving him no time to work with the player and integrate into the squad.
Silva must get sick of it! And who is this random now???
No Dewsbury-Hall then. Off to Everton
This is the biggest bunch of balony I have ever read.
shiuld go for hoyland of man utd . he needs a new start somewhere . marco could work wonders with him
We’ve got about another 26 days to wait until TK puts his hand in his pocket. We have no chance of Marco signing a new contract the way he is treated
Perhaps the annual lull this year is due to signing Travis Hunter for the JJ’s…$76 million for a rookie plus a bunch of draft picks.
I’m not sure why we’re all surprised by the lack of urgency to support poor Marco.
Our chance for Europe came and went last year…there’s no chance of Spurs or United not finishing in the top ten this season.
The Khan business empire does not focus on Fulham or its fans, never will.
It’s August 4 and we’ve signed a back up goalie. The dysfunctional two headed monster that is TK/AM seem to think their job is to save pennies rather than get a team ready to compete in the hardest league on the planet. We are the only team that does business this way and clearly other teams do not like/or want to deal with as a result (which is why we are losing players to clubs like Everton). Why do we have an incompetent business guy in AM – who screwed up building new stand – involved in transfers?
If he has the potential to be third choice and develop, then fair enough. Personally, I’ve never heard of him.
Don’t like the idea of a loan back. It would be 100% fulhamish were he to get a major injury during his loan and be out for the season for us.
I’m not getting the moaning and panic. Nor the AM/TK slagging. We’re always slow out of the blocks but have made some great signings relatively late on in the last few years.
Calm yourselves. We have 38 games to moan and panic about, no point in starting early. Let’s see what the end of the window brings, and then moan and panic.
I thought it was only West Ham fans that moaned constantly. Now Fulham fans are
doing the same please keep the faith.
Franco is speaking some sense here, calm down, by mid-August we will have two good signings, by end of the month all our targets will be reached. We are not Liverpool or Man city, we need to find the right deal. Our last seasons have shown that we can sign the right players, except for maybe foe ESR, which would be the exception to confirm the rule.
The way things are shaping up, we’ll be lucky to secure Wilsons signature never mind sign anyone of merit.
Absolutely fed up with speculation.
Really believed that this year, with shackles loosened, we would do some good business early on.
Khan’t believe its not better.
I expect it’s just his agent putting this out through channels . Don’t think it’s serious . Loads of rubbish out there .
Well said Franco and Raymond, I have been around since Tommy Trinder and Jimmy Hill I often wonder the way some Fulham fans think now they behave like they are fans from up the road just trying to upset the true FFC supporters, COYW.
I’m not sure this article is accurate, it says the Fulham have failed to land a number of targets.
I think its more accurate to say the powers that be are yet to try making any signings!
There is no mentioning of any source here, how come?