The reality that Fulham's safety felt assured pretty early into the Premier League campaign should not go unnoticed, especially considering how favoured they were to face a third successive relegation in August after promotion from the Championship.
Marco Silva was also the bookies' favourite to be sacked first and Aleksandar Mitrovic was expected to struggle to match his imperious goalscoring form in the second tier. Few can be blamed for having these pre-season assertions, the recent evidence of Fulham's Premier League performances were drastically poor, going down in 2021 with only 28 points, losing eight of their first 11 games.
The previous top-flight season was marginally worse in points in 2018/19, getting two fewer. But they conceded 81, losing 26 games out of 38, losing 11 out of 12 games between January and April.
