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Milano

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I’d take Mitrovic and maybe Cainey; Fulham’s big problem was that they simply could not defend, most of the time we can. Our problem is up top and creative midfield.
Mitrovic would be a perfect fit for the way we play.
Cainey, not sure, can he control the tempo of a game? That is what we need the most.
 




Weststander

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Milano said:
I’d take Mitrovic and maybe Cainey; Fulham’s big problem was that they simply could not defend, most of the time we can. Our problem is up top and creative midfield.
Mitrovic would be a perfect fit for the way we play.
Cainey, not sure, can he control the tempo of a game? That is what we need the most.
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Couldn’t agree more.
 


Lurchy

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I'm aware he's only on loan at Fulham but Calum Chambers strikes me as the type of player we may have a look at in the coming weeks. He'd be good competition for Montoya plus he's home grown, has premiership experience and has versatility as can also play at centre back and as a defensive midfielder. The likelihood is that Arsenal will make him available, and he's rumoured to be on 35k a week so is in our wage structure.
 


Easy 10

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Fulham blew the thick end of £100m last summer on what turned out to be a bunch of bang-average signings, the majority of which was right at the arse end of the window, and paid for it.

£27m on Seri
£22m on Anguissa
£18m on Mitrovic
£16m on Mawson (freshly relegated CB from Swansea)
£6m on Bryan
£5m on Fabri
£4m on Le Marchand
£1.8m on Babel

Plus a whole HOST of loan players. Having gone up, they absolutely carved their squad apart.
A totally scattergun approach to transfers, resulting in a team literally thrown together at the last minute, which then alienated a number of squad members who'd got them promoted, and led to a fractured dressing room. They used 3 different keepers in their first 10 games, never had a settled defence, and are now on their 3rd manager of the season.

If ever a club showed what NOT to do when getting promoted, Fulham just wrote the book on it. Actually, Middlesbrough did quite similar after they thieved our place in the PL a year earlier - and look how that turned out. They stunk the Premier League out as well for a season, before disappearing without a trace, and now look at the state of them.

Depressing as hell that we actually gave up 4 points to that utter shambles this season.
 


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Easy 10 said:
Fulham blew the thick end of £100m last summer on what turned out to be a bunch of bang-average signings, the majority of which was right at the arse end of the window, and paid for it.

£27m on Seri
£22m on Anguissa
£18m on Mitrovic
£16m on Mawson (freshly relegated CB from Swansea)
£6m on Bryan
£5m on Fabri
£4m on Le Marchand
£1.8m on Babel

Plus a whole HOST of loan players. Having gone up, they absolutely carved their squad apart.
A totally scattergun approach to transfers, resulting in a team literally thrown together at the last minute, which then alienated a number of squad members who'd got them promoted, and led to a fractured dressing room. They used 3 different keepers in their first 10 games, never had a settled defence, and are now on their 3rd manager of the season.

If ever a club showed what NOT to do when getting promoted, Fulham just wrote the book on it. Actually, Middlesbrough did quite similar after they thieved our place in the PL a year earlier - and look how that turned out. They stunk the Premier League out as well for a season, before disappearing without a trace, and now look at the state of them.

Depressing as hell that we actually gave up 4 points to that utter shambles this season.
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This, on toast, with anchovy and 'the tears of an angel' sauce.

But compare that with Wolves. Loadsa singings, but the same starters for the first 9 or so games. Genius - risk, plus iron bollocks = success.
 


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Easy 10 said:
Fulham blew the thick end of £100m last summer on what turned out to be a bunch of bang-average signings, the majority of which was right at the arse end of the window, and paid for it.

£27m on Seri
£22m on Anguissa
£18m on Mitrovic
£16m on Mawson (freshly relegated CB from Swansea)
£6m on Bryan
£5m on Fabri
£4m on Le Marchand
£1.8m on Babel

Plus a whole HOST of loan players. Having gone up, they absolutely carved their squad apart.
A totally scattergun approach to transfers, resulting in a team literally thrown together at the last minute, which then alienated a number of squad members who'd got them promoted, and led to a fractured dressing room. They used 3 different keepers in their first 10 games, never had a settled defence, and are now on their 3rd manager of the season.

If ever a club showed what NOT to do when getting promoted, Fulham just wrote the book on it. Actually, Middlesbrough did quite similar after they thieved our place in the PL a year earlier - and look how that turned out. They stunk the Premier League out as well for a season, before disappearing without a trace, and now look at the state of them.

Depressing as hell that we actually gave up 4 points to that utter shambles this season.
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23.5% of their season’s total...
 








Easy 10

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:
This, on toast, with anchovy and 'the tears of an angel' sauce.

But compare that with Wolves. Loadsa singings, but the same starters for the first 9 or so games. Genius - risk, plus iron bollocks = success.
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Indeed. You look at the Wolves players who finished the Championship season, who were then featuring in the Premier League for them the following August.

Coady, Boly, Doherty, Neves, Helder Costa, Gibbs-White, Jota. The spine of a really good side, which they added to in the summer without ripping the whole thing apart and starting again, like Fulham did. We did similar to Wolves, kept the spine of the team #together, and are now in with a decent chance of having a 3rd season at this level if we don't fvck things up too badly.

Promoted teams need to evolve. Build on the success, add to the quality of the squad gradually. Or be idiots like Boro and Fulham, throw it all up in the air, then crash and burn spectacularly.
 










Easy 10

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Surf's Up said:
Cardiff will survive - I reckon the 3rd place is between us and Burnley.
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Cardiff have just 2 home games left - Liverpool and Palace. Can quite easily see zero points there.
They travel to Man City, Burnley, BHA, Fulham and Man Utd.

I don't see it. They'll get nothing out of at least 3 of those games, and that'll leave them with too much to make up in the other 4. Their GD is shot as well,which is effectively another point.

If we beat them at the Amex, then their goose is cooked. A draw will in all likelihood see us stay north of them.
 




Miximate

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BensGrandad said:
Fulham still got Cardiff and Newcastle to play so each of those will get 3 points, which doesnt help us.
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Would like to think that pride, professionalism and passion would play its part for the Fulham team/squad, as, in some cases, probably playing for their contract next season, however am struggling to disagree with your point
 




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Jul 13, 2003
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Easy 10 said:
Cardiff have just 2 home games left - Liverpool and Palace. Can quite easily see zero points there.
They travel to Man City, Burnley, BHA, Fulham and Man Utd.

I don't see it. They'll get nothing out of at least 3 of those games, and that'll leave them with too much to make up in the other 4. Their GD is shot as well.

If we beat them at the Amex, then their goose is cooked. A draw will in all likelihood see us stay north of them.
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I see that as 7 points excluding the game against us.

Wins v Palace and Fulham and a draw at Burnley.
 






Easy 10

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BensGrandad said:
I see that as 7 points excluding the game against us.

Wins v Palace and Fulham and a draw at Burnley.
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We'll see. I think Palace will turn them over as they've been pretty good on the road (aside from a chucklesome exception). Burnley are Burnley - they tend to grind these type of games out and get the job done, just as they did against a far more talented Wolves team last weekend. They have the resilience for this type of battle.

Cardiff will have to hit some hereby unseen form to dig themselves out of this. They've lost 4 out of the last 5. Games are simply running out, and too many really tough ones are left, mostly away as well.

Even if they get your projected 7 points, we'd have to have an absolute disaster not to get another 2 points this season to stay above them, albeit our game with them is the proverbial 6-pointer.
 
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