Perch certainly isn't a CB though. Good team player, but realistically only a Midfielder or a Full Back.
Are we going to go down the Brentford/Swindon route and specifically look for young CB's? Or take the best ones availble to us? I wonder if they'll look to foreign leagues for a replacement...
If it's that easy to find high calibre players on the cheap why aren't Fulham focusing elsewhere too? With the shift from 'old school' defend-first CBs to the more rounded footballing types we should be considering ourselves lucky that we have a young, homegrown lad who is developing nicely that...