The Club is pleased to confirm that an option to extend Cauley Woodrow's contract by an additional year has been taken, keeping him at Fulham until the summer of 2019.
Speaking about the extension Woodrow was delighted to be prolonging his stay at the Club.
"It's a nice feeling to be rewarded for going out on loan and doing quite well, then getting called up for the England U21's and coming to the Euros and to then have the Club taking up that option, I am really pleased," said Woodrow.
"I only had a year left on my current contract when I went on loan so it was obviously in my head to do as well as I could to try and get my option taken up so when I found out the Club were going ahead with that I did feel rewarded.
"The plan for me now is to hopefully break into the Fulham team and play more regularly than I have done in the past and really push on."
The striker has been at the Club for some time now and is pleased he can make more memories at a place that means so much to him.
"I had just turned 16 when I first signed for Fulham, so I've been here seven years.
"I love it at the Club, I've been here a long time, I know the Club, I know everyone here. Hopefully I can push on a do as well as I can."
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📝 We are pleased to announce the Club has taken the option to extend Cauley Woodrow's contract. 👏
Splendid news 👍⚽️
Interesting turn of events,glad for cauley and must think in with a chance of prooving himself to joka.
waiting for the " this means we aren't singing a striker" replies
Quote from: Nero on June 23, 2017, 12:29:46 PM
waiting for the " this means we aren't singing a striker" replies
We dont need a singing striker lol.
Hopefully this means SJ jas seen something in him he likes, he had a year left and then an option, on our side, so it is good it is done early, so hopefully he can push on.
I would hate to think we have done this just because we are light up front
I would rather have had Woodrow that Martin after Christmas last season. Woodrow is an honest player but needs to prove he can not only hold the ball up but score goals and i for one hope he gets the chance and takes it.
Quote from: Artful Dodger on June 23, 2017, 12:35:48 PM
I would rather have had Woodrow that Martin after Christmas last season. Woodrow is an honest player but needs to prove he can not only hold the ball up but score goals and i for one hope he gets the chance and takes it.
Think we all echo that. he needs to take the chances given now
Quote from: Nero on June 23, 2017, 12:29:46 PM
waiting for the " this means we aren't singing a striker" replies
Sod the singing striker, let's hope we can sign a goal scoring striker.:)
Fingers crossed for him - and by implication for us - that this season really sees him do the business. He runs the risk of being a nearly man. Even now with the England U21s he's in the squad but, unless I've missed it, hasn't yet played and has had only a handful of games at that level. C'mon Cauley, crack on!
Quote from: Southcoastffc on June 23, 2017, 12:57:41 PM
Fingers crossed for him - and by implication for us - that this season really sees him do the business. He runs the risk of being a nearly man. Even now with the England U21s he's in the squad but, unless I've missed it, hasn't yet played and has had only a handful of games at that level. C'mon Cauley, crack on!
he playe din the 2nd game coming on in the 88th minute, but such a short appearance didnt have time to make an impact.
Quote from: westcliff white on June 23, 2017, 12:59:25 PM
Quote from: Southcoastffc on June 23, 2017, 12:57:41 PM
Fingers crossed for him - and by implication for us - that this season really sees him do the business. He runs the risk of being a nearly man. Even now with the England U21s he's in the squad but, unless I've missed it, hasn't yet played and has had only a handful of games at that level. C'mon Cauley, crack on!
he playe din the 2nd game coming on in the 88th minute, but such a short appearance didnt have time to make an impact.
He's had 9 outings for the u21s (including the other evening's couple of minutes). Total of 503 minutes. 3 goals at a respectable 1/168 min. (By definition you can't play much more than 'a handful of games' at any age group level!)
Also 3 goals in 5 u20 appearances.
I am pleased and hope he gets his chance properly.
However, and everyone knows I really like woodrow, we still need another 'proper' striker (even two if you know where to find them!). whether it is a name or a lesser known player I do not really mind as long as they can convert the scrappy goals/headed goals. last season we scored a phenomenal number of beautiful goals and that was wonderful, if we can add 'ordinary goals' from a classic striker that will surely be a big bonus!
Renewing Cauley Woodrows contract is a plus in my book, for the player and the club. I hope he gets his chance, and if he does, I hope he takes it. But he needs a run of games like any player, especially a striker. But whatever happens it's another string to our bow.
This seems a rational thing to do whether or not we plan to keep him. Not sure I'm any the wiser on that. But it gives a hard-trier the certainty of an extra years guaranteed income, so I'm pleased for him.
Quote from: cmg on June 23, 2017, 01:17:15 PM
Quote from: westcliff white on June 23, 2017, 12:59:25 PM
Quote from: Southcoastffc on June 23, 2017, 12:57:41 PM
Fingers crossed for him - and by implication for us - that this season really sees him do the business. He runs the risk of being a nearly man. Even now with the England U21s he's in the squad but, unless I've missed it, hasn't yet played and has had only a handful of games at that level. C'mon Cauley, crack on!
he playe din the 2nd game coming on in the 88th minute, but such a short appearance didnt have time to make an impact.
He's had 9 outings for the u21s (including the other evening's couple of minutes). Total of 503 minutes. 3 goals at a respectable 1/168 min. (By definition you can't play much more than 'a handful of games' at any age group level!)
Also 3 goals in 5 u20 appearances.
Well, perhaps it's an unfair comparison but Nathan Redmond and Nathan Chalobah have both played over 30 times for the U21s.
I'm not knocking CW, I really hope he does wel,l but I'm pointing out that he might be one of those many young players whose full potential is never realised.
Great news! Had it my mind that no one was really ever going to rate him and let him have his chance. Seems, now, that he'll get it. 049:gif
Quote from: westcliff white on June 23, 2017, 12:32:38 PM
Quote from: Nero on June 23, 2017, 12:29:46 PM
waiting for the " this means we aren't singing a striker" replies
We dont need a singing striker lol.
I used to be a singing winger, but now I'm just a whinging sinner.
Quote from: Statto on June 23, 2017, 03:22:04 PM
I both expect and hope he's on the same wages he was aged 17, i.e. Very little, otherwise this is a waste of money. Has shown little or no promise at this level imo, failing even to make burton's team some weeks. We still need 2 strikers and if we want to go up Woodrow cannot be better than 5th choice behind those two, Ayite and Kebano.
Agree with you Statto, this news doesn't inspire me at all, sorry! Seems 1 way of saving spending money on a more talented and badly needed striker.
Yeah not too happy about this. Although I think it is probably so we can demand a higher fee off Burton and other champ clubs!. Like Woodrow but don't think he will be useful in the short term.
So pleased for Cauley, a lot of Fulham fans like him and we hope he now comes good and works his way into the team. The problem will be giving him game time to enable him to continue to develop.
However, surely this means that we now only need bring in one really good striker and therefore should be able to find sufficient cash to ensure that the chosen one is top draw.
Quote from: @jolslover on June 23, 2017, 08:01:24 PM
Yeah not too happy about this. Although I think it is probably so we can demand a higher fee off Burton and other champ clubs!. Like Woodrow but don't think he will be useful in the short term.
Judging by his Twitter post he thinks he's here for the long run.
Quote from: filham on June 23, 2017, 09:04:43 PM
So pleased for Cauley, a lot of Fulham fans like him and we hope he now comes good and works his way into the team. The problem will be giving him game time to enable him to continue to develop.
However, surely this means that we now only need bring in one really good striker and therefore should be able to find sufficient cash to ensure that the chosen one is top draw.
If we bring in one striker and have him as backup, I'll be more underwhelmed than when we ended up with Martin and Smith - we cant expect to win the league if we have to rely on him as the main striker should our primary striker get injured. We need two as we did before, he couldn't even get in the team ahead of Smith and Joka didn't rate him either so that says it all.
Quote from: filham on June 23, 2017, 09:04:43 PM
So pleased for Cauley, a lot of Fulham fans like him and we hope he now comes good and works his way into the team. The problem will be giving him game time to enable him to continue to develop.
However, surely this means that we now only need bring in one really good striker and therefore should be able to find sufficient cash to ensure that the chosen one is top draw.
I think he has had enough time to develop, I like him as well as somebody with a good attitude and a trier, but he won't really add to any promotion push!! We need 2 quality strikers if we (or sorry I mean the owner) is serious about promotion. Really can't see any justification for keeping Cauley, can't be the sta, t's men as insufficient stat's and can't be Joka as he didn't want him anyway, so what is this about, saving money??
As for extending his contract by another year when he rarely makes the bench, WTF?
Quote from: davew on June 23, 2017, 07:52:00 PM
Quote from: Statto on June 23, 2017, 03:22:04 PM
I both expect and hope he's on the same wages he was aged 17, i.e. Very little, otherwise this is a waste of money. Has shown little or no promise at this level imo, failing even to make burton's team some weeks. We still need 2 strikers and if we want to go up Woodrow cannot be better than 5th choice behind those two, Ayite and Kebano.
Agree with you Statto, this news doesn't inspire me at all, sorry! Seems 1 way of saving spending money on a more talented and badly needed striker.
I agree with you two guys.
Also I hope that Jolsover is right and it is a ploy to get a better fee from any potential buyer.
Seems to me the good strikers are highly sought after,and believe the club have tried.I think the club will do well to get one quality striker purely and simply because there gold dust.I think the club has tried to cover the outcome of not getting the 2 strikers we need by getting cauley signed up.
