Felix Magath believes previous Fulham owner Mohamed Al Fayed should have put his hand in his pocket if he wanted them to stay a Premier League club.
In a war of words spread over the last few days, the man who sold the club to millionaire Shahid Khan in July 2013, reckoned it was the current Whites boss and not him who caused the club's downfall.
Fulham took the plunge at the end of last season in what Al Fayed described as a 'meek surrender'.
However, Magath hit back at his press conference ahead of tomorrow's game with Cardiff City when he revealed an invitation to a Fulham game in January 2013 from ex-boss Martin Jol had the Dutchman confiding he was being starved of cash.
"I spoke to Martin Jol after this game and he seemed to me to be unhappy with the club. 'They gave me no money to spend'," Magath remembers the manager dismissed in December 2013 saying.
As Magath prepares to turn the tide of four Championship defeats on the trot against Cardiff tomorrow, he also offered a different side of the coin on allegations made by former Whites defender John Arne-Riise.
The Norwegian claimed this week the German had 'flushed everything the club stand(s) for down the toilet,' with Riise insisting Magath's tough training regime was partially to blame.
The manager countered: "Why is that players who had no success get asked? I was not here before Fulham and Brede (Hangeland) and Riise were bottom of the league.
"Brede and Riise told me when I arrived that players say they were doing nothing in training sessions.
"You should ask players like Raul and Ivan Rakitić, at Barcelona, what they thought of my training methods."
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