Sky Sports News’ chief football correspondent Kaveh Solhekol has confirmed that Marco Silva is ‘totally happy and focused’ on Fulham – despite Saudi Arabian reports that Al Hilal wanted him to become their new boss in time for this summer’s Club World Cup.
Solhekol’s story this afternoon says that the Portuguese head coach is fully focused on guiding Fulham to as high as possible in the Premier League – with European qualification still not out as the question despite last week’s defeat at Aston Villa. Silva has rejected approaches from Al Ahli and Al Hilal, who are looking for a replacement for Jorge Jesus, in the past and is understood to be keen to continue in his Craven Cottage role beyond the summer of 2026.
The former Hull City, Watford and Everton head coach has been linked with any potential vacancy that may arise at Tottenham Hotspur, but he has previously given short shrift to approaches from Spurs and West Ham United. Fulham’s board believe that Silva will sign a new contract with the Whites and remains fully committed to the task of taking the Whites into Europe, having returned Fulham to the top flight within a season of being appointed as Scott Parker’s successor.
I rather him go tbh, he doesn’t have a back up plan, he rather prioritize Raul and Willian rather then players who actual wants can play… he moans too much about depth when he is the one who likes smaller squad.. time to move on, yeah he did great for us for the last 3 years but time to see how things are without him
Slugma – You ‘want to see how things are without’ the most successful top flight manager in Fulham’s history?
I’m glad you don’t have the ear of the ownership and I’d suggest leaving the harmful substances alone.
Silva’s the only reason this squad is punching well above its weight and might still qualify for Europe. The fact that he’s shunning stupid money to stay at Craven Cottage is wonderful news.
There is nothing to suggest he’s keen to continue his Craven Cottage role now let alone beyond 2026
Of course Andy you are so right…and yet one wonders…
We are about to return to the abject frustration of watching the owners vacillating until the last minute before signing desperately needed players to supplement a sparse core without Tete it seems.
If that’s frustrating for us it must surely be agony for Marco.
…and yet he emerges through it with aplomb year after year.
Most of us are ambitious especially if we are good at our job…but apparently Marco is happy where he is.
Has he achieved his ambition then?..a secure job at a club whose ambition has been met…a mid table club with no yo-yo strings attached?
Or perhaps he’s met his greatest challenge.
I’ve often said Marco is Merlin so maybe he’s working on an alchemical process to turn ESR from a 32,000,000 pound lump of lead into gold.
Good luck with that.
Hope he stays as he is good enough to keep Fulham in the league !! For clubs like us,Staying in the epl is priority number one !! Europe, F A Cup run or Carling Cup are bonus!!
Andy, all this words for an opinion, holy cow! god forbid someone has an opinion, and clearly you are forgetting about Roy, who will always be the most successful PL manager for Fulham.
This squad isn’t ready for any UEFA competition so maybe my opinion is more valid then you think. We over spent on ESR and Andersen, we continued to use Raul, we wasted a whole window not bringing in any RB and yet the only player we signed was a 40 year old who has continued to use Fulham for his personal bidding war.
Marco has done all he can at the club, if you are happy with players like Raul, Willian and AP getting in over deserved players then you are part of the problem.
Harmful substance? Brother please it called being real so here is a little advise for you put on your glasses and stop talking out the wrong hole. Look at the bigger picture Silva has done all he can and the squad is lacking everything up to the point where we can’t replace Muniz, Chestnuts and Reed.
So again God forbid someone has an opinion… bitter little man
Andy – you sure you mean Marco is the ‘the most successful top flight manager in Fulham’s history? He hasn’t yet overhauled Roy’s points total or got us to the final of a major European competition has he?
“Beware false prophets.” who the hell is slugma? could be anybody, not even a Fulham fan Brentford or Chelsea just sent here to wind us up, Cant say I have seen his name before how come he has slipped through the net?
None of us knows whats going on behind the scenes, but should Marco decide that his work with this team has peeked and there’s no more he can do, then it wouldn’t surprise me if he did leave as his contract is expiring
He’s done a very good job to achieve what he has. Lets be honest, did anyone actually expect us to reach the level we have this season? I didn’t.
Fulham is a tough project especially working with absentee overseas owners. Recruitment is always a slow process and this also must lead to his frustration as the coach .
If the rumours are true then ,I hope the Khans already sourcing a replacement and I would like to see Liam Rosenior in the role.
Anyone here complaining about Silva, get a life! You surely cannot be a true Fulham fan, or at least you do not have a good memory of our recent luck with managers. Marco does get it wrong soetimes but to me he has been nothing short of a Messiah for this club, and I for one will not entertain any arguments that contradict this.
This has been our best season in the top league for many years. Marco Silva has brought the smiles back to Craven Cottage, plus he is a top man, well liked by his squad of players, and most importantly, by the owners.
There has been constant paper talk about Silva leaving our club for pastures new, but I believe he is different to many other managers (and players), chasing the big money today’s footballers and coaches are lured by.
I trust he will prove his loyalty to Fulham FC by staying with us on a journey to bring a long-awaited trophy, and/or European football.
He has improved so many players since they have joined us, and together with the Khan family, can invest in our future as a permanent team in the Premier League.
Please Marco, show the Fulham faithful you really do love this club as much as we love you. Many have been tempted, but quite often, whether players or managers that have left us, have not always found the grass greener on the other side.
If you seek bigger and better, please remember, these clubs demand success immediately. No medals, no job! We are quite different here at our famous club in London, in our delightful stadium, thanks to the improvements by the Khan family.
We hope to see you at Craven Cottage for an even better season in 2025/26.
COYW…………..
Zippa, maybe because I’m actually a Fulham fan. Have been for 25 years. Gosh, some Fulham fans are actual fickle minded people.
Have you thought maybe people want a change? Half you people acting like you haven’t thought of this. I just have the balls to say what’s on my mind if you don’t fucking like an opinion cry to someone that actually cares.
If Marco goes so what. You lot cry over the littlest things, this is why I hate this club because of fans.
Genuine Fulham fans don’t hate this club because of their fellow fans. They’d recognise that there is only a club to support because of the Supporters’ Club, Fulham 2000, Back to the Cottage and the Trust helping time and time again to safeguard Craven Cottage as well as prevent mergers and bankruptcy.
It is perfectly fine to want a change – but your reasons seem contradictory. You say that Silva’s reached the end of the line because he didn’t sign people in January. The reason nobody came in at that point for a fee was because we’d have breached the PSR rules. Silva may not have beaten Hodgson’s points record yet, but we should do by the end of the season, and he has the potential to take us further.
I’d worry about who the Khan family would get in to replace him should he leave because he’s an excellent manager. It concerns me that a lot of people want to sack him because results have tailed off in the last few weeks.
Who wants to sack Silva, crazy!
We were in a false position going into quarter final and final 10 extremely tough games, so knew we’d end up finishing around 10th, which is still good.
I worry personally for Silva. He’s been arguably the best manager we’ve had and he doesn’t have the resources to get us to the next level now, so only way could be backwards now.
Can anyone blame him if he goes?
Job at Fulham is both comfortable and lacks pressure, which is what he likely knows. Owners just want Prem football and Europe is a nice to have.
Andy I never said I want him sacked I said he has done all he can, not because we couldn’t sign in January but because of frustrating use of Muniz, late subs, him always using AP and Raul, him continuing to use Andersen despite him having bad games, lack of real depth, lack of youth the list goes on and on.
Don’t get me wrong he is a great manager for us but I would like a manager to come in that uses plan A,B and C. A manager who like younger players, a manager who doesnt prioritize certain players like its his own son in sunday league football. I would like a manager who recognise his mistakes and knows when to make the right subs.
The line about PSR is a lot of rubbish by the way when we were set to sign the Winger from AC Milan but Fulham couldn’t do a deal in time. We wanted Coufal and West Ham didn’t want to give him up. We had money but we couldn’t get anyone in expect for Willian.
Looking at what we know about the Right Back position we definitely needed a player in, with Chestnuts being injured and needing surgery this whole time could have caused more damage to him and our fans owes this man an apology. He might have no been great but this man fought for the greater good of the club.
My opinion on fans goes way past this little disagreement mainly aimed at the youth today.
If Marco does leave, there will be some good names or some really awful names. 3 names in my opinion that deserves to be on that list is; Roger Schmidt, Marco Rose and Vincenzo Montella. Those are ambitious enough, you could even go for Motto or Jose.
Why don’t we all calm down a bit. There are 3 weeks to go to the end of the season and we should be concerntating on giving our support to the team under Marco. After that is the period of speculation and fake news, why bring it forward 3 weeks. Nearly all of it is groundless anyway.
C.B everything is good. Just a few lads having different opinions. 🙂