Fulham’s efforts to sign a striker on deadline day are becoming more entertaining. We covered the club’s efforts to sign Sergi Enrich, and were able to confirm that wasn’t a goer mid afternoon on Tuesday.
From there Fulham moved on to 21 year old Aboubakar Kamara from Ligue 2’s Amiens. These are pretty reliable reports, it’s hardly a rumour that would be made up. Added to that, French newspaper L’Equipe today reported that Amiens were happy to do a deal but Fulham couldn’t come to an agreement with Kamara’s agent.
In the end Oodense’s joint fourth top scorer in this campaign (4 goals, 2 of which were penalties… he did better last season), 29 year old Gohi Cyriac, moved to Fulham on loan until the end of the season.
According to Belgian newspaper Het Belang van Limburg, in another reliable looking report, somewhere between the Enrich attempt and signing Cyriac, came an attempt at signing Yohan Boli.
He’s a 23 year old French striker currently playing for Sint-Truidense V.V. in Belgium. With 6 goals so far this season (just 1 a pen). Fulham offered €3m plus bonuses.
Outlining how reliable the information is, Het Belang van Limburg quote STVV’s CEO Philippe Bormans as saying: “We could have cashed in heavily by selling Boli, but both the club and the player himself did not benefit from a departure. Yohan indicated that he wants to grow here and wants to improve here.
“As a board, we give a clear signal to the fans that we want to move forward and not every year let our best players leave. Moreover, we want to grow this group. This was simply not the time to transfer Boli.”
Is this the last one? Who knows!
