Marco Silva reveals Fulham transfer plan after Harry Wilson and Kenny Tete injuries

Evening Standard

·30 January 2025

Marco Silva reveals Fulham transfer plan after Harry Wilson and Kenny Tete injuries

Fulham have lost another key player to injury

Fulham winger Harry Wilson is out for months with a metatarsal injury and will require surgery.

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The Welsh international was substituted shortly after half-time in Sunday evening’s 1-0 defeat to Manchester United after feeling pain in his foot.

Wilson has scored five goals this season and grown in prominence over the course of campaign, earning more regular starts in recent weeks, so news of a serious injury is a significant blow to manager Marco Silva and the club.

“Not good news for Harry Wilson,” Silva said at his press conference on Thursday.

“Wilson needs surgery — he’s going to be out for a long period. Maybe 10 weeks.”

The injury will also rule him out of the start of Wales’s World Cup qualifying campaign in March. They face Kazakhstan at home on March 22 and visit North Macedonia in Skopje on March 25.

Fulham, who play Newcastle at St James’ Park on Saturday, are hoping to sign a right-back in the final few days of the January transfer window. They want competition for Timothy Castagne after Kenny Tete suffered an injury that could keep him out until April.

“Of course, we are going to try,” Silva revealed. “We are trying to get a player for his [Tete’s] position. We are looking for that position.

“And of course after the injury to Harry Wilson, we are looking for a player in that position [too]. It doesn’t work in our favour because it’s a very short period of time until the end of the window!”