Unlike previous years, when upon returning to the Premier League, they would bring in players frantically and without a plan, Fulham are much calmer this summer, spend less money, and that’s why ten days before the start of the season, only the fourth reinforcement arrived at Craven Cottage. A new face in West London is Kevin Mbabu.The Swiss national team player, a right back by vocation, arrived in the new-old Premier League member from Wolfsburg, who will receive 5.5 million euros as compensation, 2.5 million in bonuses and another 10 percent of the money from the player’s next transfer. Mbabu has signed a three-year contract with an option to extend it for another 12 months.Kevin Mbabu is a Fulham player! 🇨🇭Welcome, @Kevin_Baboo. 🤍#SwissMade | #FFC— Fulham Football Club (@FulhamFC) July 27, 2022 The good thing for Fulham is that Mbabu already has experience of playing in the Premier League; in the period from 2013 to 2017 he made 21 appearances for the first team of Newcastle. At Craven Cottage, he will ‘fight’ for the position along the right sideline with Kenny Tete.”The first step is to stay in the Premier League, be stable, and then aim for a place in the top 10, why not?”, said the 27-year-old Swiss representative ambitiously at his promotion.##NAJAVA_MECA_6531785##Mbabu started his career in Servette, from where he signed for Newcastle nine years ago in a transfer worth 1 million euros. Later, he played for Rangers and Young Boys, in which he showed his potential, playing 101 games for the Swiss club, after which he moved to Wolfsburg in the summer of 2019 for slightly more than 9 million euros, where he covered the right side of the field by default in the previous three seasons. He wore the jersey with the national coat of arms 22 times.In conclusion to Mbabu’s arrival, Fulham have spent 35 million euros this summer, having previously brought in Joao Palhinha (Sporting, 20 million), Andreas Pereira (Manchester United, 9.5 million) and Manor Solomon (Shakhtar Donetsk, loan).
