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Fulham Manager Hodgson Looking For Cash Injection
Cottagers boss looking to strengthen next season.
Feb 8, 2010 3:13:00 PM
By Steve Alexander
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson is hoping club owner Mohamed Al Fayed will be able to invest more money into the club when they discuss how to take the Cottagers' forward next season.
Since arriving in December 2007, Hodgson has transformed the fortunes of the west London club taking them from a relegation battle to their first ever European campaign.
A succession of injuries this season however has hampered the Cottagers' ambitions for a top-ten finish.
Striker Andrew Johnson is the latest player to join Hodgson's growing injury list and will miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery in the United States.
Clint Dempsey, Paul Konchesky and John Pantsil are all still sidelined, making the squad dangerously thin, as they aim to finish in the top half of the Premier League and at the same time compete in both the FA Cup and Europa League.
The £7million transfer of England under-21 defender Chris Smalling to Manchester United will go through in the summer and Hodgson hopes Al Fayed will once again give him his support in the transfer market.
"The chairman has been very supportive throughout and I have no reason to believe he won't be," he told Press Association Sport.
"We made decisions in this transfer window which were for the good of the club, not just the short term, but the long-term good.
"We are fully aware that if we are to do as well as we have done in the last year and a half then we will need some help in the summer.
"That will probably mean we will be seeking some quality additions to the squad as we've run the squad right down."
"We have between now and the summer to identify targets and persuade the chairman that all the support he has given in the past isn't yet finished, and he has to keep going."
Hodgson, meanwhile, sees no reason why Johnson cannot make a full recovery and have a huge impact next season.
He said: "He is just relieved in his own mind that they have not only found the problem, they have solved the problem.
"He faces a fairly lengthy spell on the sidelines, but come next season he will join us fully fit, raring to go and with the knee in good condition.
"Andy is an enthusiastic and dedicated footballer. He is still very young with a lot of football left in him."
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Since arriving in December 2007, Hodgson has transformed the fortunes of the west London club taking them from a relegation battle to their first ever European campaign.
A succession of injuries this season however has hampered the Cottagers' ambitions for a top-ten finish.
Striker Andrew Johnson is the latest player to join Hodgson's growing injury list and will miss the rest of the season after undergoing knee surgery in the United States.
Clint Dempsey, Paul Konchesky and John Pantsil are all still sidelined, making the squad dangerously thin, as they aim to finish in the top half of the Premier League and at the same time compete in both the FA Cup and Europa League.
The £7million transfer of England under-21 defender Chris Smalling to Manchester United will go through in the summer and Hodgson hopes Al Fayed will once again give him his support in the transfer market.
"The chairman has been very supportive throughout and I have no reason to believe he won't be," he told Press Association Sport.
"We made decisions in this transfer window which were for the good of the club, not just the short term, but the long-term good.
"We are fully aware that if we are to do as well as we have done in the last year and a half then we will need some help in the summer.
"That will probably mean we will be seeking some quality additions to the squad as we've run the squad right down."
"We have between now and the summer to identify targets and persuade the chairman that all the support he has given in the past isn't yet finished, and he has to keep going."
Hodgson, meanwhile, sees no reason why Johnson cannot make a full recovery and have a huge impact next season.
He said: "He is just relieved in his own mind that they have not only found the problem, they have solved the problem.
"He faces a fairly lengthy spell on the sidelines, but come next season he will join us fully fit, raring to go and with the knee in good condition.
"Andy is an enthusiastic and dedicated footballer. He is still very young with a lot of football left in him."
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