Craven Cottage Newsround

It’s true, if Rich and I didn’t have real jobs to keep food on the table and pay the utility bills and to keep our houses warm in the winter, we could bring you all sorts of news and commentary. But because we do, we can only briefly bring you up to date on what Fulham news we’ve been hearing about the last 3 or 4 days.

Last week after Kasey Keller was signed, U.S. Soccer (ussoccer.com) called Kasey Keller and got the lowdown directly from Kasey on the hows and the why’s he signed for Fulham. This is all done in the form of a podcast. By the way, even if you are not a U.S. citizen. Stop by the US soccer web site sometime. They used to have a horrible web site and just before the last World Cup they upgraded it to arguably the finest national team web site on the internet. In particular check out their “Sights and Sounds” area along with the Nikes Studio 90 stuff.

And speaking of goalkeeping, evidently David James can write really well. Here he breaks down the art of catching the ball, unlike some keepers who will always do the punch thing. A technical article broken down to make it entertaining. Yes, I know it’s not Fulham but it is certainly worthwhile. Thanks to Bruce at Dunord.blogspot.com for this one.

Also last week, Lawrie Sanchez confirmed that he had actually been trying to lure Celtic midfielder Thomas Gravesen to the Cottage. I don’t really understand this one as Graveson has seemed to piss off managers everywhere he has gone, including the last two clubs of Real Madrid and Celtic where he now plays and has been sitting on the bench. But I will let you be the judge of this and shut my mouth for now. Not sure I want a player who says he’d rather sit out the two years and collect his money.

Then, Sanchez spoke last Friday about captain Brian McBrides injury and return date. He then went onto say that he felt that McBride and Healy had a special understanding. That Healy seemed to understand where McBrides flick on’s would go.

He also spoke quite candidly about the fact that at this time there have been no offers for Diop or Rosenior. He also said they are looking for a big center forward and he finally told us they had an offer for Watford’s Darius Henderson turned down. Has anyone beside me noticed how vocal Sanchez has been and how much Fulham FC have been parading him in front of the cameras? I have to say he is quite good and pretty candid. I like knowing what’s inside the managers head and hope Fulhamfc.com continue to give us video interviews of our manager.

I still think the squad is thin despite what has been said about how much has been spent.

Lawrie Sanchez

Then there is word from Sky that up and comer Port Val keeper Joe Anyon is not interested in Fulham. There was also word that Va’s manager Foyle was quite unhappy with Fulham as they received an offer for Anyon then were told that they had picked up Kasey Keller instead.

It’s also reported that the Serbian forward Danijel Ljuboja has been training with Fulham and is on trail. The 28 year old Ljuboja had been tossed by Stuttgart after demanding higher wages even though he was never really an influence at there.

Lastly Tom Wille from Fulham USA checks in and has a nice preview of the Carling Cup game today vs Shresbury. Perhaps we will hear from Rich today for a bit of insight on the this game.

Brian