The London Standard
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June 04, 2026
Portuguese coach brought Premier League stability to Craven Cottage. By Dom Smith
Fulham were fast becoming a yo-yo club — too good for the Championship but too poor for the Premier League — when Marco Silva first pitched up at their Motspur Park training ground in July 2021.
His departure from the club five years later, after he rejected a £7million contract to take up the chance to become Benfica manager, comes after the outstanding achievements of his 15-year managerial career: winning Fulham promotion to the Premier League and then stabilising them in the top flight after a rocky period that saw them relegated in 2019 and 2021.
But that he chooses this summer to wave goodbye comes as no shock. Owner Shahid Khan has not always invested in the squad as heavily as Silva hoped and the coach needed to be shrewd to reinvent the team.
This story is from the June 04, 2026 edition of The London Standard.
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