Fulham plan to wait until after the season has ended to finalise the futures of players whose contracts are set to expire this summer.
It is understood their final league position is among the factors which will be used to determine which players are offered new deals.
The Cottagers are ninth in the Premier League table and firmly in the race for Europe with five games to go.
Kenny Tete, club captain Tom Cairney, and veteran Willian, who rejoined for six months in February, are all due to become free agents on July 1 if they do not sign new deals.
Raul Jimenez, Adama Traore and Carlos Vinicius are also on deals with end on June 30, but Fulham have a clause in the trio’s contracts which gives them the option to trigger one-year extensions until June 2026. The club are considering whether to, in each case.
Reiss Nelson is on loan from Arsenal and set to return to the Gunners once his loan expires this summer. The winger is out for the season and has been back at their Sobha Realty Training Centre to receive specialist treatment on his hamstring injury.
Fulham’s CEO, Alistair Mackintosh, sporting director Tony Khan and manager Marco Silva all take an active role in speaking with players’ agents and negotiating new contracts at the club.
While those conversations have already been taking place, it won’t be until the summer that final decisions are made on the majority of out-of-contract players over who to keep and who to release as free agents.
Silva’s influence on recruitment has grown since Fulham have established themselves as a mid-table club under his management over the past three years.
