Stuttgart striker Serhou Guirassy is warning supporters to take rumours with a pinch of salt amid claims that he has rejected a move to Premier League outfit Fulham.
Should Marco Silva’s side sign a striker before the window closes next week, the new arrival may almost feel like the man tasked with stepping into Daniel Craig’s shoes when the planning for the next James Bond movie gets underway.
Aleksandr Mitrovic will certainly take some replacing. The ‘Spectre’ of those seemingly bottomless Saudi Arabian funds is hanging over many a club, and Fulham found out the hard way that even those with eye-watering Premier League contracts cannot resist the temptation to double, triple and quadruple their already sizeable pay-packets in the Middle East.
Mitrovic sealed a belated £47 million move to Al Hilal over the weekend.
BILD reports that Serhou Guirassy has since turned down the opportunity to step into the Serbian’s shoes in favour of staying put at Stuttgart.
Fulham need a striker to replace Aleksandr Mitrovic
But while reacting to those reports on Twitter (or is it ‘X’ these days?), Guirassy was quick to remind the footballing public that, sometimes, there is smoke without fire.
“I’m just Guirassy. Until proven otherwise, I can decide where I want to be,” the Frenchman responds. “And don’t listen to everything on the internet.”
Guirassy, who rebuffed the advances of Crystal Palace and West Ham when joining Stade Rennais back in 2020, scored 14 goals last season and kick-started the new campaigh with a clinical brace in Stuttgart’s 5-0 thumping of VFL Bochum on the Bundesliga’s opening weekend.
Guirassy is reportedly valued at £17 million.
BILD add that the well-travelled frontman will only leave Stuttgart for a club capable of offering him a place in the starting XI. In that sense, a Mitrovic-less Fulham may appeal more to him than a Nottingham Forest side boasting the excellent Taiwo Awoniyi.
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