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Fulham in no rush to appoint new manager

Fulham chairman Mohamed Al Fayed is relaxed about the club's failure to find a successor to Roy Hodgson despite the new season now being less than three weeks away. The Cottagers' attempts to replace Hodgson with Ajax's Martin Jol ended in failure last week when the Dutch club refused to allow their manager to join the Barclays Premier League side.

Temporary manager Ray Lewington is currently in charge of the team on their pre-season tour of Sweden, which ends with a friendly against Malmo tomorrow.

A spokesman for the club, said: "The chairman is obviously confident that we will have someone in place but we won't be rushed into making a decision.

"There is no deadline. The chairman wants to make sure that he has the right man for the job and will make that decision as and when he sees necessary.

"We have our second friendly of the pre-season tour of Sweden tomorrow and the chairman is very happy with the way that preparations are going under Ray Lewington so we are not panicking here.

"It's business as usual. Ray Lewington is doing a great job with the pre-season campaign and the managerial situation will be resolved as and when we have the right man for the job."

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