'Very exciting candidates' - Khan on Fulham boss search

Fulham vice chairman and director of football operations, Tony Khan, says there are "exciting candidates" prepared to take over from Marco Silva.

According to Khan, Silva's departure came as a shock to the Fulham board but the club are actively working on his replacement.

"It's very important to look to the next step, being we have to bring in a new coach and it's something that we are working on," he told Fulham TV, external.

"We've been actively talking and working to find somebody to come in because as I've said, the expectation here has been for a while that Marco was going to stay.

"It's been less than two weeks now that we found out that Marco had changed his mind. He had really indicated that he wanted to stay and was planning to, but we also understand why [he is leaving].

"But I'm very positive for the future.

"There's been a lot of names mentioned in the press and it's interesting because it's going very well and there's been a few great conversations in particular, and we've got a few people that the board is talking to who are very exciting candidates.

"I have seen a lot of the press where there have been people we've been linked to, or it says they were the front-runner or there were conversations with people, and we've never talked to or never even had a conversation about."