Fulham are in talks with Strasbourg as they look to beat Nottingham Forest to the signature of French winger Dilane Bakwa, according to Pete O’Rourke.
Forest had a bid believed to be worth up to £30.2m rejected by the Ligue 1 outfit on Monday and the Whites are now looking to hijack the deal. The exciting 22 year-old wide player of Congolese descent is keen to move to the Premier League, but Strasbourg – owned by the same BlueCo consortium that bought Chelsea – are eager to encourage a bidding war.
Bakwa has hit eleven goals and contributed twenty assists in 69 appearances for Strasbourg since signing for Le Racing in 2023 from Bordeaux. The versatile former French under-21 international, who can operate on either flank or up front, has plenty of Premier League admirers, with Sunderland and Leeds United also considering joining the race for his services in the closing days of the transfer window.
Fulham boss Marco Silva called on the club to sign new players after last night’s League win over Bristol City having seen the Whites bring in just Benjamin Lecomte – a back-up goalkeeper – this summer. Fulham are thought to be close to concluding a deal to sign Samuel Chukwueze from AC Milan, although the Italian giants may need him to play on Friday night as they have no senior forwards to replace the doubtful Rafael Leao.
All very well these rumours but no signings yet. What and essential is the latest about Kevin. What is happening about signing a new holding mid field player which should be our priority, There does appear to be any progress on this position
Once again Fulham to late to the party, any new players now will take a minimum of 4 weeks to acclimatise and become accustomed to our style of play by which time we would have played 6 games with less than last years team.
The Khans need to put up or get out
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Surely we cant be going for Chukueze and this fella? It has to be one or the other with Kevin as we cant afford to lose 4 players to AFCON in jan?
Another one to add to the list?
It’s becoming a total farce!
Ali-Mac’s approach to closing these deals is incompetent. He seems to believe being difficult and stubborn gets you the best price and also is fond of the pretending to be in on other players with pointless enquires (mainly to look like he’s active rather than actually pushing forward a deal). Teams who are good at this understand that you get the best deal by understanding your price and the other team’s price and finding the win. They take a long view and understand that you might have to deal with AC MIlan, Shaktar again and you benefit when both sides feel like they won and also understand that the cost of losing a deal (particularly with little time to pivot) often outweighs the benefit of squeezing a few extra dollars out of it. We are pointlessly slow to close and alienate trading partners mainly so our incompetent CE0 can tell our owners that he “won the deal.” I think, without Marco’s involvement in transfers, we would be in the Championship right now. Ali-Mac is very bad at his job.
This is becoming almost farcical we probably won’t sign anyone at all it’s just a game we obviously don’t want to go to the next level
Waiting for the news os Sky that Silvas walked and I don’t blame him