“are you really going to let me go? you could put up a fight you know”
- Some Girls, Partner in Crime, from “Crushing Love”
Today this message appeared on the Fulham website:
Fulham Football Club can confirm that it has agreed a fee of £5million for the sale of Bobby Zamora to Hull City. Further details will follow…
The Tigers have been granted permission to open talks with Fulham striker Bobby Zamora over a possible move to the KC Stadium.
Fulham and Zamora are currently on a pre-season tour in Australia and talks will commence upon the player’s return to England this weekend.
And so may end one of the more confusing, enfuriating seasons in recent memory. Zamora has presumably had little to do with this – he’s in Australia after all – so we might question the club’s actions here. Presumably this is has been done to force the matter through; making all this public somewhat forces Zamora’s hand.
Summing up his Fulham career so far, Zamora was playing shortly after this was made public, started a game, came off at half time and watched Erik Nevland bag a hat-trick. It’s only Perth Glory, but credit where it’s due – you’ve still got to put them away. Interesting to see comments on TiFF about this though: I remember last season Seol did quite well pre-season, but because they were pre-season games people weren’t interested and he was still public enemy number one; now Nevland’s got goals pre-season games are very relevant. Hmmm.
Anyway, our man Eddie Johnson was instrumental in setting up the goals so hopefully he’s starting to progress. I see good in most players and generally want everyone to succeed, but players like Johnson, so routinely written off on the message boards, are particular favourites. He looked shocking in his debut against Man Utd but I thought he actually did very well in an important win over Everton, and if he didn’t shine in the few games he did play, well, at that point we were a Championship club in waiting. And perhaps his spell at Cardiff didn’t pull up any trees either, but maybe this’ll be the year he gets to grips with things. Or not, who knows, but I can’t see any reason to do anything other than wish him well.
In other news, Roy has ‘hit out’ at WBA’s dismissal of our Jonathan Greening bid:
“I think it’s sad when people make those sort of comments because I can assure you the offer was by no means derisory,” he added.
“It may not have been the kind of offer they were looking for, but that’s another matter.
“To use the word derisory is very strong and as far as I am concerned, I know what the offer was, for a player that is 31 years of age and is in the Championship looking to get back into the Premiership, it was anything but a derisory offer.
“I am hoping that there may still be some dialogue between the two clubs because I know that Jonathan is very keen to join us and he would be a good addition to our squad, with his experience and quality, going into the season we are going into.”
Exactly. I am starting to see as a kind of Roman Emperor type, the kind of man who is head and shoulders above his peers and whose impeccable judgment is spoken of in hushed tones throughout the world. Greening would be a fine squad player and I hope we can sign him.
