I don’t know about you – but I’m still buzzing from Friday night. Chelsea spent more than £300m last month to go from losing to Fulham to drawing with the Whites. Fair play to them, I suppose. Another splurge in the summer and they might manage to trouble Bernd Leno next season. It is a sign of how far Fulham have travelled under Marco Silva that I walked away from Stamford Bridge slightly disappointed that we hadn’t nicked it: wondering whether Willian, Bobby Decordova-Reid and Aleksandar Mitrovic might have done more with the opportunities we’d created in the penalty area. But I’ll certainly settle for taking four points off the sanctioned boys.

There was a lot to admire about the way Fulham fought for that draw. Unlike the first meeting between the two sides, when I think the boys knew it was a great chance to end our barren run in the SW6 derby, the players didn’t look overawed by the occasion. They scrapped for every ball, chased each lost case and sprinted back when an attack had petered out. Apparently, that surprised Gary Neville on Sky Sports. Perhaps he’s forgotten about the characteristics of a good side having spent the last few years suffering through Manchester United’s decline. Effort is a prerequisite under Marco Silva.

So, too, is style. This wasn’t, as Dan discussed in the match report, a blood and thunder backs-to-the-wall effort of a plucky outfit punching above our weight. Sure, the Whites defended diligently – Kenny Tete was excellence, Tim Ream inspirational and Issa Diop headed everything that came his way – but there was a style to the way they broke too. Willian continues to roll back the years on one wing, some of Bobby Decordova-Reid’s touches were sublime and Andreas Pereira, on a relatively quiet evening for our creator-in-chief, was unfortunate not to break the deadlock with a rasping drive. There might have been a slight alteration in attacks but seeing Antonee Robinson surge down the wing, you knew there was still an emphasis on getting forward where possible. I’ve never seen a Fulham centre back sprint seventy yards to join a counter attack after winning a tackle in his own half, either.

There’s something to admire in everything Marco Silva does. You can tell all the players want to play for him. He has rebuilt the confidence of those who were left on the scrapheap by his predecessor. He has a team that might have been traumatised by their previous experiences of the top flight going toe to toe with the best sides in the country. And he’s ours. What Silva has done in his year and a half at Craven Cottage would be too sensational for a Hollywood scriptwriter. That’s why it is crucial that the conversation he should be having with the Fulham hierarchy right now is about what it will take for him to sign on the dotted line of a contract extension. I don’t want to go all Rio Ferdinand on you, but let him right the numbers on that piece of paper, Mr. Mackintosh, he’s worth it.

You’d better believe our perceptive Portuguese head coach will be in demand this summer. Plenty of big jobs on clubs that are having underwhelming seasons will be up for grabs and Silva will be on the shortlist for any canny football executives out there. This is an important moment in Fulham’s history. The best managers of our recent past have been the briefest. Micky Adams barely got a couple of months after leading the Whites out of the Football League basement, Kevin Keegan was seduced by England and Jean Tigana found himself hobbled by boardroom disputes. Roy Hodgson decamped for Liverpool only weeks after reaching a European final. The last manager who had Fulham playing with such style was Slavisa Jokanovic and a lack of synergy between the coaching staff and the club’s senior leadership left him carrying the can for a summer of silly spending.

Silva and Fulham are such a good fit. The man who has looking to rebuild his reputation in England after his humbling experience with Everton now has the opportunity to lead Fulham to heights we probably don’t even dare to dream about. Look how he high he has got a team fashioned in a few short weeks over the summer flying. We wouldn’t be human if we didn’t idly ponder in those dreary moments at work where Marco might lead the Whites. But dreaming is all it will be unless he gets the long-term security every football manager craves. The Khan family have invested a truly staggering amount of money in London’s oldest professional football club – surely it makes sense to back their shrewdest signing to the hilt. He is a genius, after all.