Louis Saha believes Marco Silva should stay at Craven Cottage because the Portuguese head coach can still ‘take Fulham one or two rungs up the ladder’.

The French forward, who scored 63 goals in 142 appearances at Fulham before his acrimonious move to Manchester United in January 2004, dismissed any notion that Silva had taken the Whites as far he can – despite Saturday’s defeat by Everton. Saha told the South London Press:

“He’s done brilliantly, but Fulham can still go up one or two rungs on the ladder. I really think that this club is amazing. They have understood how to stay in the Premier League, to maintain this type of quality all the season. They’ve not had any long stretches of under-performance.

“They give everyone a tough match, and Silva is the master of that success. They have the capacity to reach and play in Europe, maybe win some trophies. That’s what I want to see from them, and Marco is the man for that. I’d be happy to see him stay and take them all the way to a trophy. Fulham are an ambitious team who want to go further, and they shouldn’t be thinking of any ceiling on their performance. They could even recruit better players in the summer to kick on.”

Saha also urged Fulham to become more reliable and offered some tips to Rodrigo Muniz about upping his goal return.

Fulham need to improve their consistency even more, and they need to turn losses into draws, and draws into wins. They need to learn to win ugly, and get 15 more points from the season. The style of play is great, but they can go even better. “That’s what Rodrigo Muniz can do to improve himself, and help his team. He needs to score important goals. He has great players alongside him, they have two good strikers. If they are both scoring 20 a season, things would be amazing.”