Are Fulham in trouble?

Marco Silva gestures with his hands on the touchline during the Carabao Cup Third Round match against Cambridge UnitedImage source, Getty Images
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Our chief football news reporter Simon Stone has been answering some of your questions on our BBC Sport Premier League live page today.

Laura asked: A concerned Fulham fan here. Do you think we are in trouble?

There are several injuries to key players, we haven't got a fit striker (or at least not one Marco Silva wants to play), we have a difficult run of fixtures and we are bottling almost every lead we have.

Simon: Marco Silva made it pretty clear he wasn't happy with the way the club went about their business in the summer transfer window, and it feels the effect of doing business on deadline day lingered into the series of matches between the first two international breaks, as the players had to get fit and get used to playing with their new team-mates.

That said, Fulham deserved more than a point against Manchester United. The PGMOL have admitted they wrongly disallowed their opening goal at Chelsea, and they led at Aston Villa and Bournemouth before eventually losing.

Even three points from that tale of woes would have pushed Fulham well into the top half of the table.

If club-record signing Kevin settles down and produces performances somewhere near the levels his £34.6m fee suggests he is worth, it will clearly help.

But Fulham have shown a capacity to challenge bigger clubs already this season, so I don't view their position as negatively as you appear to.

Follow the rest of Simon's Q&A and the rest of Thursday's football news