Slav’s 10 year plan...

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The Championship is not enough for Jokanovic's Fulham ambitions

The manager at the Cottage, Slavisa Jokanovic, would like a decade of success at Fulham, so what could possibly go wrong for him?

Every manager needs to have a positive vision of where they want to take their club and Fulham's manager has not been holding back on how settled he feels at SW6. In an interview with the Evening Standard earlier this year he said: "If I'm successful, I could be here for 10-years!"

You might ponder what success would mean for a club of Fulham's stature now as they have been stuck in the Championship since 2014. They certainly got fans jumping out of their seats by coming the closest yet to reaching the Premier League last season, before Reading ended their promotion hopes in the play-offs in May.

Jokanovic clearly feels that he only needs to make a few additions to get the club further up the table into the play-off positions, but does one season to build on make success that much easier? A 10-year stay would need something quite remarkable to be delivered by Jokanovic.

Jokanovic's first big test will be to hold on to his star players who did so well in 2016-17. They include midfielder Tom Cairney, 20, who has already been the subject of a £20 million bid from Newcastle United, according to the Sun.

An offer from Gent for Dennis Odoi was also turned down by Fulham in June, as SkySports reports.

Kevin McDonald has also been linked with a possible move to Celtic and Nottingham Forest had also shown some interest, according to GetWestLondon. 

He has also found the buying market challenging having seen a bid for Braga's attacker Rui Fonte rejected by Antonio Salvador, SC Braga's president. Rui Fonte, 27, will not be leaving the Portuguese side this summer Fulham have been told, as reported in Ojogo.

A good moment for Fulham fans though this summer was to hear that England U21 star Cauley Woodrow has signed a one-year extension, the club's website reported. The striker scored five goals last season when out on loan at Burton Albion and could well be seen as strong enough to play for the Cottagers up front next season, now that Chris Martin has ended his loan at Fulham.

"The plan for me is to hopefully break into the Fulham team and play more regularly than I have done in the past and really push on," Woodrow told the Burton Mail.

Still, Fulham have to build on last season and Jokanovic will know that young players at the club may find it hard to break through if the team is again going to make a promotion bid. If Jokanovic can get the balance right though, winning the Championship could be the start of his 10-year association that he so wants with the Cottagers.



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How Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic's tenure at clubs compares to others in the Football League

Our Data Unit has had a look to see how the average length of Slavisa Jokanovic's managerial posts last compare to other Football League managers

Few managers have been riding the manager merry-go-round quite like Fulham manager Slavisa Jokanovic .

The Cottagers' boss has had six different senior managerial posts over the course of his career, staying at each one for an average of just 359 days.

That's a shorter time per job than all but one other current Football League or Premier League boss who has held at least five managerial jobs, including their present post.

Jokanovic has been at Craven Cottage for 545 days at the time of writing though, making it his second longest spell at one club.

Sheffield Wednesday's boss, Carlos Carvalhal, has been riding the merry-go-round more frequently than any other manager in England's top four divisions.

The Owls boss has had 14 different senior managerial roles over the course of his career.

Those jobs have lasted an average of 355 days each which is the lowest average of any current EFL or Premier League manager to have had at least five jobs.

The longest Carvalhal has stayed in a job is 730 days which he achieved with his first club - Espinho.

As of June 28, the Portuguese had been at Hillsborough for 728 days so looks set to break that record shortly.

New Watford boss Marco Silva is on his fifth club and has so far lasted an average of 379 days at each. If you discount his recently started job, that average does increase to 466 days per club. However, that's still the fourth lowest average of any current EFL or Premier League manager to have had four or more previous jobs.

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has had eight different managerial jobs (including two at the same club, Arezzo) which have lasted an average of 430 days each.

Coventry City boss Mark Robins has held his six jobs for an average of 474 days, while Uwe Rösler has has held his seven jobs for an average of 506 days.

Neil Warnock has had more managerial roles than any other manager currently operating in the top four divisions of English football.

Warnock's 15 different jobs have lasted an average of 728 days each.

Arsène Wenger has, perhaps unsurprisingly, hopped on and off of the manager merry-go-round less often than anybody else currently managing in the English leagues.

The Arsenal boss has had four different senior roles which have each lasted an average of 2,997 days.

That's a higher average than any current EFL or Premier League boss.

Exeter's Paul Tisdale has the next highest average at 2,207 days per job followed by Morecambe's Jim Bentley (2,189 days average) and Liverpool's Jürgen Klopp (1,954 days average).



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