The Official Silly Season January Transfer Thread 2021/22

[StuinSalop]

Sess gone to Plymouth, on offal.

[Black, White and Fred]

To be fair if the option is losing Fab on a free in the summer of getting £8M a loan back and a sell on clause I would say that's pretty good for a bad situation

[LC]

£10m for Fab is decent money given the circumstances but I hope there's a sell on clause. Will forever be a bitter pill to swallow that we're losing the best player our academy has ever produced for peanuts though in the grand scheme of things.

Has ever produced?? Are you sure about that lol. Johnny Haynes or George Cohen..

Even if we focus on the last 20 years, we have produced players who are arguably better than Fabio, the truth is time will tell how good he is, some young players peak early then go down hill from there   

[SP]

To be fair if the option is losing Fab on a free in the summer of getting £8M a loan back and a sell on clause I would say that's pretty good for a bad situation

Yes, the cards felt stacked against us.

[Blawarmy]

No class https://twitter.com/FudaylOmar/status/1488276892310507522?t=l0oSZy4obFkSQuTSXW7GJw&s=19

[LC]

I hope the club are looking ahead and get a rival clause agreed. Fabio shouldn't be able to join a team in the bottom half of the PL on loan next season. Can you imagine Fabio scoring against us playing in a Bournemouth shirt.

[Pluto]

Not even bothered about Neco Williams. Minor upgrade on Christie for a backup right back.

[Neutral Zone Ultra]

Not even bothered about Neco Williams. Minor upgrade on Christie for a backup right back.

Christie is no longer here

[Blawarmy]

I hope the club are looking ahead and get a rival clause agreed. Fabio shouldn't be able to join a team in the bottom half of the PL on loan next season. Can you imagine Fabio scoring against us playing in a Bournemouth shirt.

He might be back with us again next season. Who knows?

[Black, White and Fred]

I hope the club are looking ahead and get a rival clause agreed. Fabio shouldn't be able to join a team in the bottom half of the PL on loan next season. Can you imagine Fabio scoring against us playing in a Bournemouth shirt.

Sounds exceptionally Fulhamish....

[Neutral Zone Ultra]

Fee agreed for Fab per Paul Joyce. Personal terms and medical due.

€10m per Fabrizio Romano

So around 8.5 million pounds give or take, considering KFC were reportedly only willing to go to 5 million the club have gone well if the report is correct

And a 20 percent sell on fee I heard

If this is true it's a game changer

[Pluto]

Not even bothered about Neco Williams. Minor upgrade on Christie for a backup right back.

Christie is no longer here

Yes and Williams is an okay replacement

[Caedal]

The sell on fee is the most important part of the negotiations for me. You can't blame him for wanting to go there. Scheme wise he's a perfect fit for that forward line, and Klopp has continually given younger players a chance. He's going to a team that's competing every season for every trophy.
Would love to keep these academy players, but that's just unrealistic due to our instability to stay in the premier league over the last few seasons. The same thing happened to Southampton on a much much bigger scale. They've lost loads of academy prospects over the years

[LC]

Skysports now reporting the deal might not go through due to lack of time.

I said this earlier and I'll say it again, I really don't think he's going to leave this window. Let's see what happens

[LC]

The sell on fee is the most important part of the negotiations for me. You can't blame him for wanting to go there. Scheme wise he's a perfect fit for that forward line, and Klopp has continually given younger players a chance. He's going to a team that's competing every season for every trophy.
Would love to keep these academy players, but that's just unrealistic due to our instability to stay in the premier league over the last few seasons. The same thing happened to Southampton on a much much bigger scale. They've lost loads of academy prospects over the years

If we can maintain ourselves in the PL are youngsters will stay, no doubt

[St Eve]

Lousy day. We just gave up our best player, potentially, in about 50 years. The money is meaningless to us. We probably got ripped off as usual anyway, and the deal reported is unlikely to be factual. I am fully aware that our hands were tied and we had to get the best out of it in a losing position. We paid 10 million for Cav and knocks and they couldn't clean Fab's boots! Very upset. Forget the money as it won't help us. Meanwhile Bournemouth got half a new team

[SP]

The sell on fee is the most important part of the negotiations for me. You can't blame him for wanting to go there. Scheme wise he's a perfect fit for that forward line, and Klopp has continually given younger players a chance. He's going to a team that's competing every season for every trophy.
Would love to keep these academy players, but that's just unrealistic due to our instability to stay in the premier league over the last few seasons. The same thing happened to Southampton on a much much bigger scale. They've lost loads of academy prospects over the years

Completely agree and there are so many factors, including form, injury etc. He gets his fair share of the rough stuff already, I can see this increasing now.

[DevonFFC]

Quina been sent back

[BestOfBrede]

The sell on fee is the most important part of the negotiations for me. You can't blame him for wanting to go there. Scheme wise he's a perfect fit for that forward line, and Klopp has continually given younger players a chance. He's going to a team that's competing every season for every trophy.
Would love to keep these academy players, but that's just unrealistic due to our instability to stay in the premier league over the last few seasons. The same thing happened to Southampton on a much much bigger scale. They've lost loads of academy prospects over the years

So what's the point of an academy? Close the bloody thing and just buy players instead - we don't use half of them anyway! We just let the same 2 or 3 parasite clubs take all the promising ones for basically f'all!

Edit - also these kids come here thinking they will get the training and exposure to move on

[LC]

Lousy day. We just gave up our best player, potentially, in about 50 years. The money is meaningless to us. We probably got ripped off as usual anyway, and the deal reported is unlikely to be factual. I am fully aware that our hands were tied and we had to get the best out of it in a losing position. We paid 10 million for Cav and knocks and they couldn't clean Fab's boots! Very upset. Forget the money as it won't help us. Meanwhile Bournemouth got half a new team

I think everyone needs to take a step back, he's no where near our best player in the last 50 years. He's not even our best player now, I guarantee if I did a poll tomorrow asking who would Fulham fans prefer to keep, Mitrovic or Fabio, 75% would choose Mitro.

Mouses Dembele mark 1, Louis Saha, Brede Hangland, Van Der Sar, Danny Murphy, all different level to Fabio and it's not even close. Fabio certainly has potential, but again you never know how youngsters will develop- Ryan Sessegnon is a prime example of this