Ryan Bennett could be set to leave Wolverhampton Wanderers on loan again with Premier League strugglers Fulham interested, according to the PA News Agency, provided via FourFourTwo.
With Scott Parker shaking his head, Tony Khan tweeting furiously and the Cottagers already being compared to that record-setting Derby County team from 2007/08, this already feels like one of the most important weeks in the club’s history.
Fulham have just six days to bring in much-needed defensive reinforcements.
However, a deal to sign Marlon from Sassuolo appears to have fallen through following a failed medical, while Bayer Leverkusen’s Germany international Jonathan Tah can obviously aim far higher than a side that has lost all three Premier League games by 3-0, 4-3 and 3-0.
Bennett wouldn’t be a signing to hog the headlines but the 30-year-old has a proven track record in the top flight of English football, with Norwich City, Leicester and Wolves.
Bennett has fallen down the pecking order at Molineux and, after failing to make the matchday squad for any of Wolves’ three games in 2020/21, PA reports Fulham could offer the veteran a fresh start via a short-term spell at Craven Cottage.
“I was delighted to get Ryan in,” Brendan Rodgers told Leicester’s website in February after signing Bennett on loan.
“He was a young player at Peterborough, he was a big talent, and he’s gone on to have a really, really good career. He’s a warrior, he knows the game and he defends well.”
If Fulham want to make a fist of things back in the big time, signing a battle-scarred “warrior” would be a step in the right direction.
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