Roy Hogdson is making some very strange signings to aid him in his quest to drag Fulham out of the relegation zone. Maybe he really has been away from English football for too long, because to seriously believe some a riffraff of Scandinavian signings is good enough to save Fulham seems seriously deluded.

It’s true that Hogdson doesn’t have as bad a squad as the table suggests, even if Easyjet did consider opening up a direct route from Craven Cottage to Belfast under his predecessor Lawrie Sanchez, but some of his signings are baffling. It actually looks like he’s making the squad worse.

To solve his biggest problem, that of scoring enough goals to survive, Hodgson has brought in Erik Nevland and Eddie Johnson. Nevland who failed to make the grade at Old Trafford and has spent the rest of his career (yes, he’s nearly finished it now and that Man Utd spell is his claim to fame) floating around Scandinavian leagues. Spells in Sweden and Norway led to a move to a mid-table team in Holland. Considering players like Kezman, who banged them in in the Eredivisie have struggled here, what hope for Nevland.

As for Eddie Johnson, the only reason many football fans will know him is that he’s pretty decent in Football Manager. But so was Ibrahima Bakayoko.

At the back Roy has plumped for Brede Hangeland, a Norwegian who has never played outside of Scandinavia. I thought Roy was supposed to have a great black book of contacts, the man’s managed Inter Milan before. Yet it seems he lost the book just as he entered Norwegian football with Viking FK.

Premier League football has moved on, and, if he’d managed to get Marlon King (who Fulham keep insisting failed a medical) instead of Wigan, the arrivals sheet would at least look respectable.

Watching Fulham away at Bolton on Tuesday night confirmed that they haven’t much hope, barring Al-Fayed having a last minute change of heart and putting as much cash into the transfer kitty as he gives to his solicitors every week. Fulham looked happy with the draw from the first minute and were dour dour dour. No invention, relying on busy bee Jimmy Bullard.

Hodgson’s spending may well be over too and if this is all he’s ended up with it’s likely come the end of the season he’ll be wishing he’d accepted Finland’s offer of a contract extension.

Roy is surely going to learn the old adage, one so old many managers forget it in the mad scramble to pull out their check books, quality always wins over quantity. Ask Rafa Benitez. And while you do, tell him if he can get a half decent price for Fulham to go down he should take it. Every little helps when it comes to a £350M loan.