Premier League - Zamora and Pantsil join Fulham

Eurosport - Wed, 16 Jul 09:24:00 2008

Fulham signed striker Bobby Zamora and defender John Pantsil from West Ham for a combined transfer fee of £6.3m.

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"I am delighted that we have reached an agreement to enable me to play for Fulham next season," the 27-year-old Zamora said after penning a four-year deal at Craven Cottage.

"I am looking forward to joining the rest of the team this week and preparing for the new campaign."

After scoring 11 goals in 31 appearances two seasons ago, Zamora struggled with injuries in 2007-08 and was only able to make 13 appearances and score one goal.

"Bobby is a talented striker who not only has a desire to score goals but always looks to involve the rest of the team with his intelligent play," Fulham manager Roy Hodgson said.

"I have no doubt that Bobby will play an important part for us and his quality has allowed us to stregthen our attacking options."

Zamora has been at Upton Park since joining the Hammers from Tottenham Hotspur in 2004.

He will serve as a replacement for the injured Diomansy Kamara, who is out for six months.

"This is a new challenge for me and the prospect of working with a coach of Roy Hodgson's calibre was a great opportunity, so I am excited at the prospect of competing for a regular place in the team," Zamora said.

Ghana defender Pantsil, who joined West Ham in August 2006, signed a three-year deal with the Cottagers.

"John has a versatility that will provide us with more defensive options, which is extremely important to the strength and depth we have in the squad," Hodgson said.

Jeremy Stahl / Eurosport

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  1. Have to wonder who's next through the turnstile out. Lucas Neill has been a failure and only curbishley cant see it, Boa Morte is not the player he was at Fulham and Cole has never made a go of it at any club he's played for, Zamora was commited and although not the best player in the world was West Ham through and through. Curbishley appears to be a stuborn man, his signings even if they are playing badly are kept in the team whilst others are singled out for critisism and dropped after one bad game. we can only hope this attitude do's not take our club back into the championship and that there are signings in the pipeline to take us forward.
    Rayzor, Exeter

    From pryse, on Wed 16 Jul 5:51PM

  2. I dont think we should have sold Zamora. He had a bit of passion and flair when playing for the Hammers, unlike some of the other muppets...

    Sort it out Curbs. You better have good replacements lined up. Or you may as well fu*k off yourself!

    From sebastian.sookermany, on Wed 16 Jul 1:54PM

  3. Zamora was a great team player for whu and was peoud to wear the shirt. Unlike rigor morte and calamity cole. Good luck zamora i wish you well.

    From stephen.baxter18, on Wed 16 Jul 1:29PM

  4. Zamora was a great team player for whu and was peoud to wear the shirt. Unlike rigor morte and calamity cole. Good luck zamora i wish you well.

    From stephen.baxter18, on Wed 16 Jul 1:28PM

  5. Here we go again.West ham are a selling club,we must need to buid another new stand to go with the rio ferdinand stand we got.That will impress them when we are back in the championship.We got rid of solano and keep rigor morte.We sell zamora and keep cole.We are trying to ofload Green Ferdinand McCartney Neil Wrigt.I thought it was bad enough with curbishley playing 4-5-1 all last season.Has he been told he left charlton ages ago.Get rid of curbishley and bring in a west ham man not a puppet for some icelantic geezer who knows nothing about football and even less about the mighty irons.A least in looks like we will be playing sheff utd next year

    From whubob, on Wed 16 Jul 12:53PM

  6. CURBISHLEY............How about getting rid of that useles piece of sh*& Boa Morte before you off load our half decent players....hes the worst player ive ever seen pull on a West Ham shirt,and in my opinion, should never do so again.

    Paul the hammer

    From withey.paul, on Wed 16 Jul 11:05AM

  7. Is Zamora worth this sum of money? And is Pantsil only good enough to be a sub, if so what is the point of buying him? At least we have made some signings and (so far) no one else has left.

    From londoncarl, on Wed 16 Jul 9:25AM

  8. should of not sold zamora! hes a better player than carlton cole, zamora has more skill, better ball control, better at scoring with his head!, and also scores more goals than carlton cole,

    Zamora brought us into the premiership with his winning goal against preston....

    From charley w, on Wed 16 Jul 8:35AM

  9. i am hoping that pantsil will make relevant impact to fulham however i will question him to work harder to gain a permanent place in the first eleven.all ghanaians are with you.good luck .

    From nimo adams kara, on Wed 16 Jul 12:27AM

  10. I hope West Ham have a good replacement lined up for Zamora, What with Bellamy and Ashtons injury problems. Its a great buy for fulham, oh and whilst on the subject of west London, HURRY UP AND $%&* OFF LAMPARD. What about joining Judas. I will buy fatty a blackburh shirt to pose in !!

    From cook.kevin23, on Tue 15 Jul 10:47PM

  11. I hope West Ham have a good replacement lined up for Zamora, What with Bellamy and Ashtons injury problems. Its a great buy for fulham, oh and whilst on the subject of west London, HURRY UP AND $%&* OFF LAMPARD. What about joining Judas. I will buy fatty a blackburh shirt to pose in !!

    From cook.kevin23, on Tue 15 Jul 10:47PM

  12. good luck Painsil

    From OPOKU E, on Tue 15 Jul 8:53PM

  13. good luck guys

    From agiriseyi, on Tue 15 Jul 8:27PM
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