Perhaps Marco Silva was masking his true feelings.
“We’re late. I’m not hiding.”
It was August 1, and the Fulham manager was in a hurry to get to work.
“We’ve already had four weeks and only two new players,” he told Portuguese publication Record. “Six to seven players left. Now we have, as they say in Portuguese, to fight back to be competitive.”
Despite romping to the Championship title – Silva portrayed an anxious figure, still looking for solutions to help Fulham’s latest crack at making the leap to the Premier League.