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.”
If only we had a time machine so we could bring back King Louis. Best striker we ever had. Sorry Ivor!
Agree, Louis was best striker,and I have seen them for 72 years, other great ones Alan Clarke,Graham Leggat,Berbatov,MacDonald.
The list goes on but all very good.
I don’t go back as far anywhere near as far as Cliff but teenage me was absolutely devastated when Louis Saha left for Manchester United. We’d easily have made the Champions’ League if Fergie hadn’t tapped him up.
He had everything, but was ridiculously unlucky with injuries after he left Fulham. Imagine how good he’d be as Silva’s lone striker.
Lovely to read how much affection he has for the club – always felt it was a shame he left in such circumstances, but I’m not sure we’ve ever heard the true story about that.
He was good. Symptomatic of the problems teams like Fulham have to contend with. It will be a while before that changes.
On balance I would like Marco to stay, but to make him and the team the success we’d all like, the recruitment policy has to change. Our record on signings and retention are pretty poor. If they want to be successful everyone at the club needs to up their game. Starting with the necessary funds. I would hope the club would already have a list of people Marco would like to sign, so get on with it, no more rumour heaped upon rumour for months then nothing happens.
Our squad is just not strong enough we have to bring in a lot of quality players and bring them in early and that is down to TK , I really hope he changes his strategy of leaving every thing to the last minute and then bringing in poor signings. We will never improve much otherwise.
I feel Marco should’ve kept Stanno as I reckon that both himself and Rodrigo would’ve been quite interesting to watch.
Louis is probably the best striker we have had; super Mac a close second followed by Ivor and then Brian McBride! Sorry Berba!
Allan Clarke, 45 goals in 86 games in struggling seasons. What a striker.
Rodney Marsh surely somewhere on that list…best sense of humour.
….so as the season winds down we’ve competed for Europe and in the cups…with the thinnest os squads, without star performers…
For all the criticism Marco has negotiated the loss of Palhinha and Mitrovic.
He starts each season with last second signings, players who’ve either underachieved or have been plagued by injury.
He somehow makes it work except in the case of the irremediably blighted ESR.
The evidence of his achievement is there for all to see by comparing our substitutes list with any other clubs…
Every year my focus is in survival not competing for Europe…
Marco is not the best perhaps but who else could have done so much with so little.