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“You can do anything you want to do. You have to work hard, you have to create your own luck, and you have to have some luck also.”
Shahid Khan, Fulham Owner.
Fulham Football Club are London’s oldest professional football team having been found in 1879. The club have spent every season bar one at Craven Cottage, located on the banks of the River Thames. Fulham have enjoyed 25 seasons in the top flight of English football but have had spells in various different tiers of the English football pyramid. The Cottagers are yet to win a major trophy, coming closest when they reached the FA Cup final in 1975 and more recently, the final of the Europa League in 2010 where they lost 2-1 in extra time to Atletico Madrid.
Fulham had established themselves as a Premier League regular since the turn of the millennium, being present from the 01/02 season right through to the 13/14 season. Throughout this time, they had various different managers including from John Tigana, Chris Coleman and Roy Hodgson. However, in 2014 the club were relegated to the Championship where they spent 4 seasons before defeating Aston Villa 1-0 in the play-off final last season to return to the top flight for the 18/19 season.
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Many great players have played for The Lilywhites over the years, including George Best, Sir Bobby Robson and more recently Edwin Van der Sar, but the main club legend is Johnny Haynes whom has a stand at Craven Cottage named after him as well as a statue outside the ground.
Located in West London, Fulham’s main rivals are considered to be QPR, Brentford and Chelsea. The latter present the most interesting rivalry as Stamford Bridge is located in the Fulham Borough, with the two club's stadiums under a mile and a half away from each other.
Pakistani-American billionaire Shadid Khan bought the club from Mohamed Al-Fayed in 2013 for between £150-200 million. Shadid’s son Tony works as the Director of Football at Fulham. With an estimated worth of over £6 billion, Fulham fans could soon be set for interesting times ahead.
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These are the key goals set for this save:
Establish Fulham as a Premier League team
Qualify for Europe via the league
Become the dominant team in London
Win the Premier League
Win the Champions League
Will these targets be difficult? Of course, but I believe this club is brimming with potential. Some what of a blank canvas to begin with, the money of the owner along with the challenge of developing the club from the ground up is an exhilarating project.
So, I guess the big question is: can Fulham transform the face of English football?
Yes We Khan.
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