THREE GAMES. NOT A SEASON. GIVE ARBELOA A CHANCE. There is a lot of noise around Fulham at the moment. Three Premier League games. Three defeats. And suddenly some people are talking as though Álvaro Arbeloa has been at Craven Cottage for three years and has somehow dismantled everything the club has built. Let's take a breath. Yes, losing the opening three league games hurts. Nobody is pretending otherwise. Yes, the performances need to improve. And yes, Arbeloa needs to show that his ideas can work in the Premier League. But this is a new manager, a new system and a squad that has undergone significant change. What exactly did people expect? Arbeloa wasn't brought in because Fulham wanted another manager to simply maintain the status quo. He was brought in because the club saw something in him. His time at Real Madrid has given him an understanding of elite football, elite standards and what it takes to develop young players. He has worked around some of the best players and coaches in world football. And now he's trying to translate that experience into Fulham Football Club. That doesn't happen overnight. LET THE MANAGER BUILD We've seen managers come into the Premier League and struggle initially before turning things around. Football isn't played on a spreadsheet. A manager needs time to get his ideas across. Players need time to understand their roles. New signings need time to settle. Young players need time to develop. And supporters need to give the process a chance. We've already seen glimpses of what Arbeloa wants. Intensity. Pressing. Energy. Attacking football. That's exactly the sort of football many Fulham supporters said they wanted. So let's not decide after three games that it doesn't work. REMEMBER WHERE WE WERE We have spent years talking about wanting Fulham to have ambition. Wanting the club to recruit exciting young players. Wanting us to compete rather than simply survive. Wanting us to develop players who could potentially become major assets. Now the club has taken a different direction and suddenly some supporters want everything ripped up because we haven't won our first three games. That's football in 2026. Everything is instant. But Fulham shouldn't operate that way. THIS IS FULHAM We are supposed to be different. We aren't Manchester City. We aren't Liverpool. We aren't Real Madrid. We're Fulham Football Club. We've seen bad days before. We've seen relegations. We've seen managers come and go. We've watched players arrive who looked completely out of their depth before eventually becoming important players for us. And we've also watched managers get written off far too quickly. So let's give Arbeloa something incredibly valuable: TIME. Judge him over months, not three matches. If we're still watching the same problems after a significant period, then absolutely ask questions. But right now? The meltdown needs to stop. Three defeats isn't good enough. But it also isn't the end of Fulham Football Club. It's the beginning of a new chapter. And if Arbeloa is going to build something at Craven Cottage, he needs the supporters behind him while he does it. BELIEVE IN THE PROCESS Give Arbeloa time. Give the players time. Get behind the team. Judge the season, not three games. Because the easiest thing in football is to demand another change. The difficult thing is to build something properly. Let's see what Álvaro Arbeloa can do. COME ON FULHAM!