Fulham Football Club is delighted to confirm the signing of Mark Fotheringham on a one-year deal. Fotheringham had spent the summer at Fulham as a trialist and played in the pre-season friendlies against Glasgow Rangers and East Fife. The 30-year-old midfielder started his senior career at Celtic in 1999 having progressed through the Clubâs youth team. He moved to Dundee in 2003 and made over 50 appearances. Last season, Fotheringham made 21 appearances for Notts County in League One. He has experience of domestic and European football, enjoying spells in England, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland and Cyprus. Mark will wear the number 26 shirt during his time with the Whites. As I mentioned in a different post I really doubt he has the ability to play at Championship level. Looks overweight and wasn't even good at League 1 level. A strange signing. He is a centre midfielder at least.
To me this seems a total negative signing, we have far greater talent in our youth and under 21 teams.
Can't see him playing at all maybe the odd league cup game but behind Parker, Hyndman and LVC for me!!!!
I thought it was all Peter Grant's handy work getting Fotheringham a contract but it seems he has previous with Felix too. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/19590925
We had him at Norwich a few seasons ago, can't believe he's moved on somehow to a club in a stronger position! Were promised big things when he signed (a tricky midfielder with his own signature move - the Fozzy flick) but he didn't stand out in a team on their way to relegation from the championship. Somehow ended up as our captain (dark times), which he threw back in the clubs face (literally) with an on field tirade when he got subbed. Never played for us again. Good luck with him, unless he's dramatically turned things around mentally, and improved as a player, I hope for your sakes he barely plays a minute! Certainly won't get a warm return to Carrow Road, but will no doubt score against us.
Must have been signed as one of those tax loss signings !!!! As has been said we have players who should be ahead of a player of this quality.
Notwithstanding DHCanary's less-than-ringing endorsement, I was assuming that this signing is more about getting a good character into the squad than a good player into the team. The fact that he's played for Felix before suggests that Felix knows exactly what he expects to get from the player. It could be another Billy McKinlay type of signing, and with so many youngsters who need to find their feet, it may not be such a bad idea to put another solid, experienced pro into the squad environment.
Judging by many Norwich fans comments on social media he is the opposite of 'a good character'. Apparently he's arrogant, selfish and narcissistic. I have no idea if that's true but I've yet to see a good comment about him. And he never really played for Felix, he was on trial with Wolfsburg when Felix was there but signed for Ross County instead. I'm sure we could have found an experienced pro to bring into the squad who could have added something in terms of quality too.
Canary in peace I can only echo what DH says above, it's a very very bizarre signing for you and when I read about it last night I thought it HAD to be a wind-up. He was absolutely bloody awful about five years ago so goodness knows how bad he is now. I'm convinced he's in the wrong sport, rugby should be his game as I don't recall him ever making a forward pass. Suspect attitude and character as well, I just cannot believe he has for himself a gig at a club with serious Premier League aspirations as I genuinely thought he'd be in the 4th division or playing for a lesser Scottish team. He must have one hell of an agent! Good luck for the season by the way, looking forward to my trip to the Cottage as I always do - despite the fact I've never seen us even score there and the aggregate score for games I've seen must be approaching 20-0 in your favour by now!!
He was on trial for some time... Felix can't be that wrong to sign him! Will have to wait and see. We need some rugby guys in championship...
Well he deserves a couple of runouts before we start sharpening our pitchforks, although the less than flattering testimonials don't bode well.
Fotheringham has been with the team all summer as a trialist, so I'm not surprised he's on the bench. We don't really have any one else to cover Scott Parker's "Dad" (or maybe "Favourite Uncle") role to the rest of our youthful team.
