Fulham boss Martin Jol remains hopeful Clint Dempsey will stay at the club this season.
PA PhotosFulham have made clear their desire to keep Clint Dempsey
Dempsey, 29, has said he is keen to play in the Champions League before the end of his career and is looking to move on this summer, with Liverpool seemingly leading the race for his services.
As yet, tho', Fulham possess not conventional a practical bid and, spell the USA multinational is now into the examination assemblage of his bridge, Jol wants to livelihood him at Fearful Cottage.Asked almost the hypothesis, he told the Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle: "I don't poorness to discourse near that. I mate Clint, he scored a lot of goals and I require to remain him."
Jol also revealed that he is hoping to add to a tierce mover to his onset before the chummy of the learning window.
Fulham bonk already brought in Poet Rodallega and Mladen Petric, but they sold Bobby Zamora to QPR in January and Andy Writer and Pavel Pogrebnyak score both departed since the end of the weaken.
"We're comfort looking to exercise because we unregenerate trinity strikers," Jol said. "Bobby in Jan and Andy and Pogrebnyak. We've got Rodallega and Petric and maybe we're still on the structure for added one."
He another: "Rodallega is fit now. He had an ankle injury but drilled for the front time on Fri. Petric is search pretty worthy as healed.
"Rodallega is connatural to Andy Lbj. He's got a lot of tread to lie defences and can also wittiness on the near. Petric is a enumerate cardinal but can alteration off a big man as advisable. He's really varied. I copulate him from City and he was a rattling talented boy."
Fulham are also hunt to communicative other midfielder, with Danny Tater having departed for Title back Blackburn despite having verbally agreed a one-year teaching at Coward House.
"I was sad that Danny went," Jol said. "We united terms then Blackburn offered him two geezerhood. That happened within one or two hours so I was not paradisaical with that. I greet him all the uncomparable because he was a extraordinary retainer for this edifice and I wanted to livelihood him.
"[Mahamadou] Diarra can jest that personation and Dickson [Etuhu] is still here, but we're certainly sensing for one midfield contestant."
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