They got JimenASS

They sold their focal point and replaced him with a striker who hasn’t scored goals in a few seasons since a bad head injury

Losing Mitro was massive. The club ownership knew he was going and didn’t bother to replace him properly. Palhinha was unsettled by events in the end of the window.

In addition, key players Ream and Willian are a year older, which is significant at their age. Pereira was very important last season but had a bad injury at the end - hasn’t come back the same. Tom Cairney also important is in a steady decline of how much he can play due to his knees.

The window was very poor, the first team is weaker than last year due to the reasons above, and really castagne is the only signing yet to show much worth.

Root cause is the owners and club management. They have always underwhelmed at recruitment and are alienating the supporters with a ludicrous ticket pricing policy. The new stand is hideous and the ticket prices there are even more uniquely ridiculous than the other price increases. Our DoF is a joke example of an over indulged spoilt brat - and since the Khans have been in charge we’ve had a parade of failed centre forwards signed (mitro as the only exception was Jokanovic’s doing).

The silva lining (see what I did) is the manager’s new contract and fingers, toes and anything else crossed that the manager can influence the club management into a couple of decent signings in January with the mitro money. That and there appear to be 3/4 equally poor teams. 17th would be taken gratefully right now.

They lost the main outlet to goals without a plan around it

Is the Marco Silva effect - he doesn’t last three years at any football club….trust us limpeh all of us Evertonians know firsthand of him

Mitro go Saudi, Fulham go bad

It isn’t hard to work out. They overachieved last season and then sold their best top goalscorer. For a club their size who recently got promoted, they’re operating at their expected level really.

I saw this stat which showed that fulham overperformed their xG and would have actually finished 18th

Their underlying numbers last season were flattering their position because of Leno & Mitrovic. This season is just adjusting to their true position

Losing Mitro and no suitable replacement. Lack of creativity. Lots of defensive errors.

But it’s also not that bad as we haven’t had the kindest run of fixtures. We’ve picked up points where we needed to except against Brentford and also gotten a point away at Brighton and Arsenal. I think our results after IB will determine our season.

I don’t think it’s difficult to understand if you watch their games this season. They create plenty of chances, they are solid at the back they just can’t put it in the back of the net.

A team like Fulham can’t have multiple good strikers in the wings, it leaves them open to falling hard when a striker leaves. You got to get lucky and find a good replacement.

They will be fine this season but they got to be spending all their efforts identifying a striker to bring in the summer at the minimum.

They shipped off Mitrovic to Al Hilal and replaced him with Jiménez, who hasn’t been the same since that injury.

Don’t know what they were expecting

They were already overperforming their metrics last season so they were due to return back to normal if nothing changed. But instead they replaced Mitrovic who had 14 goals with Jimenez who has had 11 in his last 70 games

Isn’t it obvious? They lost their main striker scoring goals for them. And haven’t found an adequate replacement.

They’re only good when they have ten men. (Sad third place noises)