Most exciting Fulham team since when??

[PossessionKings]

Fulham last 4-5 years has just been an collection of older players (27~), big and strong (Paulinha) and experienced enough to keep afloat.

Now Fulham has gone for youth and smaller silkier players.. Josh King, Garcia, Bobb, Palacios.. Although small, but the midfield is rejuvenated and young (Charles and Larsson are both 22).

Seems more in the Brighton mould now.

[hopper]

Not sure I'd call this team as exciting as the promoted team with Palhinha and Mitrovic. Willian was incredible that season too.

Understand the sentiment you're getting at, and there's a lot to look forward to and young players growing. But we're not there yet. Agree the midfield looks rejuvenated, we've got what we've been looking for post Palhinha - and a tonne of options.

[demeant0r]

I am not sure this team is as exciting as the last Championship team we had. In fact, any team we had with Mitrovic in it is probably more exciting (except maybe the PL Parker season). What a guy.

[The Rational Fan]

In terms of building a squad with a long-term future (with RCB, LCB, RCM, LCM, AM, RW & CF that should all peaking in 3-7 years), this has to be one of our best. The big assumption is we can look after the short-term, remain injury free, stay up, maintain our budget (i.e. league pos) and improve.

[Yamus]

I think all we need to do is to find  another Lou Saha and we may have our Jean Tigana years back

[KentFulham]

I would suggest we are a GK, LB and Striker short right now

[Holders]

Best football since Tigana, just need a Saha as mentioned above.

[BestOfBrede]

Great young players don't tend to be here for very long.
Unfortunately, that's the biggest problem!

Now, if we could work out a way to combat that!

[Bassey the warrior]

Love our playing style, very Spanish.

[S.F.Sorrow]

In terms of building a squad with a long-term future (with RCB, LCB, RCM, LCM, AM, RW & CF that should all peaking in 3-7 years), this has to be one of our best. The big assumption is we can look after the short-term, remain injury free, stay up, maintain our budget (i.e. league pos) and improve.

In my opinion the big assumption is more about what level they will actually peak at, and about how many of them will still be here in 3-7 years after the big clubs have come circling. If any of them turn out to have a very high ceiling (with King looking most promising at the moment) they probably won't be here when they reach their peak.

Like it or not, there's a 0% chance that we will still have all the players you refer to in 3-7 years. Either because they've failed to establish themselves as regular starters (jury still out on a couple of them) or because they've moved on to a bigger club.

Long term strategy for a club like Fulham means constantantly punching above our weight in the transfer market, and also to keep developing new youth players. We can't build a young squad first team squad now and expect them all to still be here when they reach their peak. If they are, it's probably because they didn't turn out to be quite as good as we hoped for.

The truth is, a club of our size will always be just a couple of poor transfer windows away from relegation. Or even just ONE poor transfer window, like our infamous 2018 summer window that both got us relegated and crippled us finacially for years.

So while we do have some promising young players at the moment, it's not something we can base our entire long term strategy on. We will just have to hope that some of them will turn into star players, and that we will be able to get a good transfer fee for our young players when they leave, which is something the club has failed miserably with in the recent past.

[FFC007]

Shea Charles looks a snip at the fee we paid.

Goes to show that there is some serious talent in the EFL we should be looking at.

[bill taylors apprentice]

Potentially exciting maybe but only a team winning more games than they lose can be called truly exciting!

[hopper]

I think all we need to do is to find  another Lou Saha and we may have our Jean Tigana years back

With the price paid I think Garcia is supposed to be that figure unless we can unearth a gem. Time will tell, but wouldn't be shocked if we signed a player with less expectations who succeeds there. We just seem to have more success with players on lower fees and big signings are slightly cursed. Of course it's too soon to draw any conclusions on Garcia.

[EN1 FFC]

At present NO. We are only winning games 1-0 or losing by the odd goal. But for the team to be considered better than some of our previous they have to be more consistent and kill games off when they go ahead, otherwise we will always get to the nervous 80th min and the anxiety creeps in.
We need a striker in the Mitrovic class who will put the fear factor into the opposition defence. Let's hope either Garcia or Muniz can hit form and confidence to become that feared striker or in January look at the loan market to get an older Marquee singing. 

[fulhamfan]

We were not exciting yesterday

[AJW48361]

Best football since Tigana, just need a Saha as mentioned above.

Amazing comments when you consider the talk that AA could be gone if we lost at Cov.

[AJW48361]

At present NO. We are only winning games 1-0 or losing by the odd goal. But for the team to be considered better than some of our previous they have to be more consistent and kill games off when they go ahead, otherwise we will always get to the nervous 80th min and the anxiety creeps in.
We need a striker in the Mitrovic class who will put the fear factor into the opposition defence. Let's hope either Garcia or Muniz can hit form and confidence to become that feared striker or in January look at the loan market to get an older Marquee singing. 

I think all we need to do is to find  another Lou Saha and we may have our Jean Tigana years back

Saha in this team would be something.

[Somerset Fulham]

I have said it elsewhere, but I thought we were poor yesterday. Misplaced, ponderous passing against a side that was only interested in hanging on for a point.

We should have nailed them.

[WindyCity]

Not sure exciting is the right descriptor.  More like nerve racking/nail biting.......

[v]

I thought a team had to score goals to be exciting

Hopefully someone will pop up from nowhere to do just that