Fatawu

[jonny_wright]

Breaks my heart what’s happening to this club, a fire sale of all the saleable talent, whilst the mercenaries stay on fat wages, slowly bleeding this club dry…. It Fatawu gets sold that’s promotion done too

[em9999]

1 minute ago, Finnegan said:

I understand I probably have too much faith in the club but I can't imagine we'd sell BEK and Fatawu and we don't have any choice with BEK. 

 

We're selling everyone without buying a soul. If we sell Fatawu, it's because something much, much bigger is wrong at the club than we realise. 

 

Some people might realise more than you think 🤔 

 

But silence is golden as the old song goes 

[ts_1010]

We are looking at losing Bilal and Abdul. We're going to need a replacement winger, 2 cams, a striker. All in the last few weeks of of the window.

 

The most ineffective admin team in the league is going to be scrambling to get deals over the line.  If Abdul leaves this season is over, we would be doing a full rebuild, over a couple of seasons.

[Jattdogg]

Sell fatawu for 45 mill then be forced to panic buy a shit replacement for 40 mill on high wages over 5 years . Sounds about right for rudkin.

 

[FoxesWalk]

If they can’t afford Dibling this is a non starter presumably 

[Simmo86]

4 minutes ago, FoxesWalk said:

If they can’t afford Dibling this is a non starter presumably 

Exactly. People getting worked up for nothing. 

[Sly]

If we sell Fatawu, Winks and BEK, we may as well all give up at this point. 

[whetstonefox]

3 minutes ago, Sly said:

If we sell Fatawu, Winks and BEK, we may as well all give up at this point. 

Added with a points deduction and the probability of a drop in morale mid table would beckon. Literally anything could happen and we don’t really know how much financial trouble we are in if any. 

[Dan]

I'm somebody who generally believes in selling to reinvest and if we got an offer of something crazy like £50mil you'd probably have to take it - but I really don't think our hierarchy would even be capable of getting the deals in to make use of that money and we would only end up throwing in the fire which our consistent decline is spreading.

 

If we sell him we will not go up, it's everything we don't need.

[-sodapop]

44 minutes ago, Jattdogg said:

Sell fatawu for 45 mill then be forced to panic buy a shit replacement for 40 mill on high wages over 5 years . Sounds about right for rudkin.

 

I might be giving the board a bit too much credit in terms of how badly they would spend that money but I do think any player going for 40m would not sign for a championship team.

[MPH]

Could it possibly new contract time and his agent at work?

[FosseSpark]

It is simple. If El Khannous, Fatawu and 1 of our experienced defenders go; Justin, Faes or Vestergaard, in this window, to add to Hermansen and Ndidi then we will finish midtable at the very best this season. 

Presuming we are being advised or are unable to bring anyone in of any quality.

We are getting to the point soon where the purge of League One might become necessary again to change the ownership and direction of the Club.

It's clear that the only money talking at the moment is American or Emirate. So the sooner we get on that train the better.

[OntarioFox]

My head and heart say hell f***ing no, sell him and we riot.

 

The devil on my shoulder though? It says it's the straw that breaks the camel's back and leads to A) a full squad turnover once the wastemen like Faes and Soumare realise we're stuck in the Championship for the forseeable and force moves and B) a tipping point in getting the majority of the fanbase turned against KPFC steering the ship into every iceberg they can find. I've already passed the point of even caring what happens this season, the club needs change and this could be the lightning rod to kick the wider fanbase up the arse. He's our most popular player, I doubt he wants to leave, and if he does go it's going to be a board decision, not his.

 

Fatawu is that important to our season. I personally think we can afford to lose BEK given we have a few options that can play centrally (Ayew, McAteer, Mavididi), but if Abdul goes we're relying on Stephy and a 16 year old kid to cover our creativity on both wings. We're done as a serious force if that happens.

Edited 11 August 2025 by OntarioFox

[MPH]

1 hour ago, em9999 said:

Some people might realise more than you think 🤔 

 

But silence is golden as the old song goes 

 

FT is largely anonymous. No one has anything to gain by dropping a comment like that other than to wind people up.  which is pretty pathetic, really..

[Spanner73]

6 minutes ago, FosseSpark said:

It is simple. If El Khannous, Fatawu and 1 of our experienced defenders go; Justin, Faes or Vestergaard, in this window, to add to Hermansen and Ndidi then we will finish midtable at the very best this season. 

Presuming we are being advised or are unable to bring anyone in of any quality.

We are getting to the point soon where the purge of League One might become necessary again to change the ownership and direction of the Club.

It's clear that the only money talking at the moment is American or Emirate. So the sooner we get on that train the better.

Well said ! 
I don’t want pain for our club but more doom and gloom is required for anything significant to change. So please more shite players and more high wages are the only way out of this complete mess. Spend spend spend until it’s all gone. 

I want this Bstd out of our club once and for all  ! 

[Twitcher]

Everyone saying about if the club sell. What if, just what if, Fatawu and BEK do, or already have done an Isak? What then? Why wouldn't they want to play at a higher level? Fatawu will be gutted he missed an entire Premier League campaign. Mads. did it. Why not them? As much as I despair about the club's transfer approach, if they're told by an agent that their player wants to leave, and will sit in the reserves and take their wages, if they can't go, you're snookered. I thought Mads. was a real talent, and West Ham have picked up a bargain. So, if the worst happens, Im afraid the signs aren't good, that we'll even get what we should for them. Worrying, but not unexpected times. Massive youth re-build and several years outside the Prem. incoming 🫤

[Jon the Hat]

Would be shame to lose him for sure,  but this is our reality at the moment.  

[teblin]

I think it would take a crazy offer for him to be sold. Unless as some other have said the financial position is so bad PSR is less of an issue than cash flow 

[JonnyBoy]

11 hours ago, cruzFOX said:

If they double whammy happens and we hear winks might go too I’m flippin done with this club. Why are we cutting ourselves off at the knees? Does top & Rudkin not want us back in the premier league?

absolute bollox! 

 

It just can't happen but nothing surprises with me with this club in the last few years, we sell them both then we finish mid-table at best 

[JonnyBoy]

9 hours ago, Twitcher said:

Everyone saying about if the club sell. What if, just what if, Fatawu and BEK do, or already have done an Isak? What then? Why wouldn't they want to play at a higher level? Fatawu will be gutted he missed an entire Premier League campaign. Mads. did it. Why not them? As much as I despair about the club's transfer approach, if they're told by an agent that their player wants to leave, and will sit in the reserves and take their wages, if they can't go, you're snookered. I thought Mads. was a real talent, and West Ham have picked up a bargain. So, if the worst happens, Im afraid the signs aren't good, that we'll even get what we should for them. Worrying, but not unexpected times. Massive youth re-build and several years outside the Prem. incoming 🫤

Unfortunately Marti has already shown he is going for the template players that got us in the mess in the first place starting vestegaard et al at the weekend. 

[Dahnsouff]

1 minute ago, JonnyBoy said:

Unfortunately Marti has already shown he is going for the template players that got us in the mess in the first place starting vestegaard et al at the weekend. 

Behave. Its one game, and you always get your senior pro's onside first, Enzo did the same.

 

Youth will be integral moving forward.

[JonnyBoy]

Just now, Dahnsouff said:

Behave. Its one game, and you always get your senior pro's onside first, Enzo did the same.

 

Youth will be integral moving forward.

we'll see wont we 

[FrankieADZ]

11 hours ago, Simmo86 said:

Exactly. People getting worked up for nothing. 

they are tbh, unless the club get a stupid bid for fats; and im taking 50mil+

they wont sell him

[Claudio Fannieri]

58 minutes ago, JonnyBoy said:

Unfortunately Marti has already shown he is going for the template players that got us in the mess in the first place starting vestegaard et al at the weekend. 

It isn’t Marti’s fault the club have failed to move these players on, we have had countless windows to shift VK, Soumare, Faes, Daka etc especially when you consider many of these were eyeing the exit door after our first relegation. Guess what they are all still here stinking the gaff out whilst we added the likes of Skipp, Reid and to a lesser degree Ayew last summer which has only made the situation worse. 
 

Years of mediocre recruitment of players on inflated fees and bloated contracts has come home to roost, the one person who cannot be held to account is Marti who know has to cobble together a competitive side from what is here and how he is being directed to utilise the resources at his disposal. Some selections will have one eye on departures and having players in the shop window. 
 

I really feel for the manager given the shit show of a squad he has inherited as a result of piss poor recruitment and an inability to move on players. 

[lgfualol]

If he goes I want a refund on Foxeshub