Felix Magath insists £11million striker Kostas Mitroglou has not been a waste of money at Fulham.

The 25-year-old, who shot Olympiacos into the knockout stages of the Champions League, was snapped up by Fulham back in January in what looked at the time to be a transfer coup.

Since then, however, Mitroglou has made just one start for the west London club and is sill waiting for his first goal in English football.

And the Greek is injured for Fulham’s massive drop-zone scrap against fellow strugglers Norwich.

But Magath said: “Even if it is the last game and he scores that is good enough for us if we stay up.

“I think you have to see the long term if you take a player like Mitroglou.

"You are not thinking only for four weeks, so for that reason he is not a mistake.”