A Give Me Sport report this evening suggests that the Fulham hierarchy are lining up five big signings this summer as they prepare to back head coach Marco Silva.

Dean Jones, the outlet’s senior transfer correspondent and a Fulham season ticket holder, reveals that the Whites have not ruled out a Craven Cottage return for Joao Palhinha, whom Bayern Munich have made available for transfer this summer. The Portuguese midfielder has struggled for form and fitness since moving to Germany twelve months ago and both the player and Silva would be interested in a reunion in SW6.

Give Me Sport say that senior Fulham sources are prepared to make five signings before the September transfer deadline as Silva weighs up how to revamp his first-team squad over the summer.