Nice to see Patrick Roberts on the City bench

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Oh wait, never mind  :005: :005: :005:

[fulhamben]

I wonder if he laughed at us for losing at home to brighton yesterday? Still the money we got for him has proved vital in our excellent start to the campaign

[Northern Cottager]

I wonder if he laughed at us for losing at home to brighton yesterday? Still the money we got for him has proved vital in our excellent start to the campaign

Propping up Khans feet on his yacht.

[SouthfieldWhite]

Pat wasn't getting played at Fulham, so decided to move on,

I doubt he was laughing at us losing yesterday.

I'm sure Pat will get loaned out soon and will become a very good player and we may regret letting him go so cheaply

[Blanco]

Or he'll just become another wasted talent that floats off into the abyss jumping from club to club not really doing anything.

[callumc513]

This sounds very bitter.

[Twig]

I wonder if he laughed at us for losing at home to brighton yesterday? Still the money we got for him has proved vital in our excellent start to the campaign

Yep, we've certainly splashed that cash haven't we.

[Wingnut]

I'm sure Pat will get loaned out soon and will become a very good player and we may regret letting him go so cheaply

It is inevitable that he will get loaned out pretty soon, so he can get game time. Highly likely that he will end up at another Championship club, if you ask me. We all know what will happen if he plays against us ........

[Max Headroom]

I just hope his talent isn't wasted

[ron]

Just like Mr Polly, I'm just about to set fire to my house, slash my wrists and dive down the stairs to land in my own funeral pyre, because life has become meaningless since Roberts left.

[Woolly Mammoth]

Eva is now the Special One !!

[St Eve]

I wonder if he laughed at us for losing at home to brighton yesterday? Still the money we got for him has proved vital in our excellent start to the campaign

Yep, we've certainly splashed that cash haven't we.

Spend,spend,spend - that's us

[laurencecapel]

I'm surprised we didn't fight tooth and nail to loan him back at least for the season. After the showing against Brighton it's clear we need width - may have offered something different with him and Kaca on either flank....

Either way I hope he really does come good - maybe one day he'll go for big money and we'll get a tidy % of the deal.

[Stefano Okaka Chuka]

It's not like he was in the starting eleven here too. He'll be another Scott Sinclair in no time at all. Stones is next.

[One Martin Thomas]

This helps no one.  If Fulham had shown a bit of ambition and got in an exotic manager at the start of the season, he may have stayed.  Either way, he's moved on; Fulham's moved on and FoF has to too !

I personally hope he makes it. 

I'd rather have seen him go to Liverpool where he may have got more games though.  It will be interesting to see how good City think he really is in the coming season.

[Hurby]

A question for those forumites with longer Fulham memories than mine: how often have budding new players like Pat Roberts returned at a later stage to the club as mature players? Do you think they keep their loyalties to Fulham throughout their career? Is there a known expression 'once a White, always a White' in circulation?

[ron]

Bobby Robson and Alan Mullery are the stand out examples. I'm sure they both always had a soft spot for the old place....but the modern game doesn't seem to have a place for such niceties as loyalty. The cash aspect has taken over almost completely.