Marco Silva warns Hull City need to learn from relegation mistakes

Marco Silva warned Hull City they need to learn from their mistakes, following their relegation from the Premier League.

The Portuguese impressed in keeping Hull in contention to stay up after inheriting a struggling team with little stability in January - but Sunday's 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace confirmed an instant return to the Sky Bet Championship.

Silva, 39, explained:

"It's easy (to see) what the club needs to do differently. We started to lose in pre-season when we were making our preparation.

"We tried to do many things in January but it's not good to be signing six or seven players in January and losing two. You should be doing that in June, in pre-season. You need to prepare better.

"The most important thing is for the club to understand what they did in a bad way, to prepare. You start to win or lose a season ahead one year in advance.

"It's clear we did our best, to try and play at a higher level, and to fight until this moment."

Attention will now inevitably turn to Silva's contract, which expires at the end of the season.

The Tigers had begun the season as favourites for relegation, with Mike Phelan as their caretaker manager, and with only 13 fit senior players.

However, despite their improvement, goals from Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke, Luka Milivojevic and Patrick van Aanholt finally took survival beyond them.

Silva was giving little away about his future, adding:

"Now is not the moment to talk about the future of the manager. It's about the future of the club.

''I will talk to the board and the chairman first, talking inside the walls of the club. Now we have to analyse it.

"I will give the board and the chairman my opinion, about what they need to do differently to make sure this doesn't happen. We'll talk in the next few days. We will talk before the Tottenham match.

"We'll see (if I will be manager next season). I have enjoyed these four months in the Premier League. That was one target I had in my career, and we tried to do our best.

"Now it's time to be calm and see what is best, first for the future of the club, and also for my career as well."

Palace's win ensured their survival and further enhanced the reputation of counterpart Sam Allardyce as a survival specialist.

The manager insisted the achievement was greater than when he rescued Bolton, Blackburn, Sunderland or West Ham, explaining:

"I said to myself this would be the hardest one, given the quality of the teams we had to play on the run-in.

''The next level of the recruitment is critical to the team being more consistent and achieving more in the Premier League, rather than a fight against relegation. That's something we'll discuss in the future.

"If you've got the label, you accept it (as a survival specialist) but building for the future relieves the stress on you. I wouldn't want to keep fighting relegation at the end of every season. It's about building for the future."