by Marco Silva is not setting concrete targets for Fulham’s season after an impressive start to the campaign.
Fulham, who finished 13th last season, have won three and lost just one of their opening six Premier League matches to move sixth in the league ahead of Saturday’s trip to the Etihad to face the champions title, Manchester City.
In the 2022/23 season, newly promoted Fulham were tipped for an immediate return to the Championship, but Silva instead engineered a 10th-place finish.
Silva, who believes his team are better now than they were then, said: “I like to be ambitious and I want us to grow. The Premier League is so demanding.
“You have the top six, but now you’re talking about the top eight and the top nine. The competition is so tough every week.
Fulham currently occupy a European place, but Silva tempered expectations for what his side can achieve this season, adding: “We have to be there for the good times, but when the setbacks come you have to respond. But it is clear that we want to do better than last season and that is our objective.
Fulham won 1-0 at Nottingham Forest last weekend thanks to a Raul Jimenez penalty, but it later emerged that Andreas Pereira had been the designated taker before Jimenez insisted on taking the spot-kick the place.
“We have to wait until the match day,” Silva said when asked who Fulham’s regular marksman is currently. “We have good penalty takers in our team and it’s up to me to decide who takes the penalty.
“I can decide from match to match and if I have to change something then we would have already talked about it. It was not a good thing to see. We already talked about the timing and worked it out.
