Tuesday 31 January 2012

Potential Zamora Sale - A Good Thing or Bad Thing

If the reports are to believed, then Fulham's main striker Bobby Zamora may be on his way up the road to reunite with old boss, Mark Hughes at QPR. It has been said that both sides have agreed a deal in the region of £4-5millin pounds, and Zamora has passed his medical, the only sticking point being personal terms. It is believed that Bobby wants to double his wages and QPR are not sure about this. The thing is though, is Bobby leaving a good or bad thing for Fulham?

On his day, he is totally unplayable and although it took him a while to settle at Fulham, many fans now appreciate what he brings to the side, as do many pundits, but in reality, he had one decent season with us and recently has looked disinterested in playing for the current manager and the club and rumours of a bust up with Jol have not helped.

Bobby has endured a love - hate relationship with the fans, going from boo boy in his first season to the fringes of the England Squad in his second season when we reached the Europa League Final. His performances in Europe that for Fulham were immense and if it were not for him carrying an injury, we are led to believe that he would have gone to South Africa. An unfortunate leg break at the beginning of the following season meant he missed half the season, but Mark Hughes always thought he was the focal point of our attacking play, which we saw when he came back into the side.

However, since Jol has taken over things have changed and we seem to have gone back to the original version of Bobby and as such we are not getting the best out of him. He also seems to be carrying an injury or moaning in every game that he plays and as such at 31, I think getting £4-5 million for him is a good bit of business.

The downside to this is that we have left it very late in the day to find a suitable replacement and although we have AJ and the new Russian (fingers crossed), it may mean we come to rely on Dempsey far too much for the rest of the season. It may however result in more game time for the youngster Trotta, who done very well in his loan spell at Wycombe and you would like to think with 2 hours of the window to go, we have something in the pipeline. We sit and wait and hope that we do!

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