Marco Silva is a candidate to become Chelsea’s next head coach.
Standard Sport has learned the club will explore his availability for the role by reaching out to his representatives.
Silva features on a list of several candidates to take on the Chelsea job this summer and checks are being made on the individual circumstances of each.
It is understood that Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola features prominently on that list of early frontrunners.
The Spaniard will leave Bournemouth when his current contract expires at the end of the season, with Marco Rose already confirmed as his replacement.
Xabi Alonso - who has been out of work since leaving Real Madrid in January - is also one of the candidates Chelsea will check on.
Fulham boss Silva is out of contract this summer and his future with the Cottagers is in some doubt.
While some senior figures at Fulham remain confident that Silva will pen a new contract and extend his five-year stay with Chelsea’s west London rivals, others are less convinced.
Fulham are currently 10th in the Premier League table, level on 48 points with eighth-place Chelsea.
Following Liam Rosenior’s sacking last week after only three months in charge as Enzo Maresca’s successor, Chelsea’s co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart began to compile a list of contenders for the permanent position.
Contact will be made with the representatives of their top candidates as Chelsea try to ascertain their levels of interest in the role. There are believed to be others besides Iraola, Silva and Alonso.
Sources close to the club say Chelsea intend to hold a robust recruitment process and not rush the appointment of their next permanent head coach.
Calum McFarlane is taking interim charge of the club until the summer, when that new appointment will be made, and began with victory on Sunday as Chelsea beat Leeds 1-0 to reach the FA Cup final.
A formal offer is yet to be sent to any candidate as Chelsea are still in the relatively early stages of the process.
