Marco Silva will be reuniting with his trusted lieutenants as he takes charge at Fulham, according to Training Ground Guru.
The club’s announcement of Silva as Scott Parker’s successor at Craven Cottage only confirmed that Luis Boa Morte would be returning to his old club as assistant manager. Training Ground Guru reports that the Portuguese head coach will be recruiting the same five members of staff who worked under him in his last job at Everton.
These include Bruno Mendes, the head of performance who created the famous ‘Benfica lab’ during his time at the Portuguese giants, Goncalo Pedro, an experienced coach who has been at Silva’s side throughout his managerial career, former Portugal national team goalkeeping coach Hugo Oliveria, who was part of Silva’s team during his three previous English managerial reigns, and Greek analyst Antonis Lemonakis, who first worked with the new Fulham boss at Olympiacos.
Stuart Gray, who has been trusted to run pre-season training since Parker left for Bournemouth on Monday, is expected to remain on the Fulham coaching staff.
Okay. So what happens (ed) to Stuart Gray? Is your last paragraph confirmed?
Obviously unwanted by the Parker gang; holds the fort at the start of pre-season and, now, gets dumped?
Or, probably even worse, is kept on as a thank you but has to work every day with a bunch of guys, all jabbering in Portuguese, and has even more of an anonymous say than the poor guy had under Parker.
Would like to know.
What I found interesting about this new appointment, and I admit that I am not 100% up to date on the Covid travel stance in UK, is the fact that Shahid Khan stated that he met with Silva in Portugal. So a case of Mohamed going to the mountain.
Am I the only one who finds this strange?
Why didn’t Silva come to UK?
How did Khan get to fly to Portugal?
Please correct me if I am wrong but wasn’t Portugal changed from green light to amber-whatever that means?
Pretty sure that S Khan would have interviewed the likes of Cooper and Wilder personally so it suggests that he was in UK.
Silva, in his statement, thanked both the Khans so it would seem that T Khan made an appearance at some stage-probably via Zoom or suchlike.
What does please me about this recruitment of a new manager is that S Khan, definitely, and, maybe. T Khan also, do appear to have vetted all of the likely candidates in person and didn’t opt for just anybody.
This suggests that Shahid Khan intends to be a bit more hands on than in previous seasons.
So, having had a couple of days to digest the news, I am quietly confident that we have a new guy that has a point to prove, has the ability and know how to prove that point and we can look forward with relish to the new season
He meet khan on his boat which was moored in portugal
Like everyone Silva came as a bit of a shock to me. I’m with everyone, now it is sinking in I think a new face is what is needed and he has as much chance of being the right man as any of the other candidates. Parker was boring and his style of football was depressing. If Silva can be the spark to keep Mitro and get him firing then this will all be a massive boost. Time to get behind the team. Actually feel excited for the new season. COYW
said it yesterday tc to step aside make stuart gray dof what do you think?
I assume you mean Tony Khan rather than Tom Cairney! I don’t thinK TK is going anywhere and I’d actually prefer Gray on the coaching staff doing what he does best.