Marco Silva is at a crossroads. Value sporting progress and stay with Fulham in the Premier League or accept millions from Saudi Arabia? As DN learned, Al Hilal did not give up on hiring the Portuguese coach and increased the offer to thirty million euros on a two-year contract.
And if the former Sporting coach turned down the first two offers in the name of this professional desire to continue coaching in the Premier League, the third offer made him rethink his priorities. After all, it will not be easy to say no to earning 60 million euros in two years.
Without coaching any club since leaving Everton on 5 December 2019, he arrived at Craven Cottage in the 2021-22 season, leading the team to the top flight of English football, also achieving the title of Championship champions, finishing tenth . in the English league of the season that has now ended.
The Portuguese coach has a contract until June 2024, but according to DN, is negotiating with Fulham about a contract extension for another three seasons. you slumlords they want to reward the good work of the young coach with a salary increase and an increase in the termination clause, which is currently payable: 6.9 million euros.
“I have a lot of praise for Marco. A lot of good things have happened since he arrived. We have a manager who loves being at Fulham, the players love the manager, the manager loves the players. We had a manager once. It came all together to create a very special moment and I am very optimistic about Marco [ficar]. He is very happy at Fulham and we are all very happy with him. We want it to stay that way, hopefully for a long time,” said Tony Khan, one of the owners and directors of the English club, in an interview with The athletic.
The rush to extend with the Portuguese has to do with recent greed. The 2022/23 Premier League was not over and Tottenham were already close to the coach of the slumlordswho now has a millionaire offer from Al Hilal, the Saudi emblem that Rúben Neves hired a few days ago.
Marco Silva is not the only coach who has been approached to move to Saudi Arabia. Luís Castro also seems to have packed his bags to move from Botafogo to Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr. Both can join champion Nuno Espírito Santo, who coaches Al-Ittihad, and Pedro Emanuel, who trains Khaleej.
Source: DN
