Fulham vice-chair and director of football operations Tony Khan says there are currently two stand-out candidates to replace Marco Silva who have had several meetings with the board.

Meziesblog understands Fulham have been advancing in talks with Alvaro Arbeloa, who spent the second half of last season in charge of Real Madrid.

But, in an interview with club media, Khan has suggested there is no frontrunner for the job at this stage.

“We’ve had several conversations that have been good but there have been two candidates that have met with the board several times,” said Khan.

“We’re open to more conversations and talking to more people and we’re working on that process right now.”

On Silva’s departure, he added: “Obviously it’s important to look to the next step and we have to bring in a new head coach, it’s something we’ve been actively working on and we’ve been actively talking and working to bring someone in.

“The expectation here for a while was that Marco [Silva] was going to stay. It’s been less than two weeks now that we found out Marco changed his mind and really had indicated he wanted to stay and was planning to, but we obviously understand why.”