Fulham are today being reported as easing their way into the Eberechi Eze transfder saga.
This one has a fair way to travel by the look of things with ourselves, Palace, Leeds and now Scotty Parker’s Cottagers apparently in the chase for the Queens Park Rangers playmaker.
So far, however, despite all the coverage, the story has attracted Palace are the only club to have bid and apparently that was £8 million – way below the £18m-£20 million wanted by the Championsip outfit.
However, Fulham are the new challengers for his signature in a deal which would keep him in west London accooding to West London Sport.
Fulham have money to spend from all reports but whether Eze would fancy joining the newly promoted outfit who were relegated last time around remains to be seen – a situation which could also be applied to the Leeds interest.
West Ham probably remain front runners but manager Moyes needs to raise cash from sales although a cash injection from the board should not be entirely ruled out
Timing is an issue. We’re clearly trying to offload Anderson and Lanzini – neither contributed much in the second half of last season and wages are high. Eze looks a real prospect who may increase in value massively. If he is sold before we have funds we could we’ll end up looking at replacements who aren’t as good (And our competitiors strengthening) – despite knowing we want to move a few on. Some form of bridge from the board would probably be sensible long term business from them if we end up securing our key target and sell to balance books later in the window. Suspect majority of fanbase would welcome Board doing something positive like that.