Fulham were fast becoming a yoyo club — too good for the Championship but too poor for the Premier League — until Marco Silva first pitched up at Motspur Park.
Silva’s departure from the club five years later, after rejecting a new £7million contract to instead become Benfica manager, comes only after the outstanding achievement of his 15-year managerial career: promoting Fulham back to the Premier League and stabilising them there, finishing 10th, 13th and 11th, twice, in four top-flight campaigns.
