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faddy the blue said:
Mate to be honest I was never in favour of sacking Koeman. Now I don't understand what the club wants. A week ago they wanted Allardyce till the end of the season which would have entailed physical, aggressive football with focus on clean sheets mainly. It seems like they are clueless and want to spend or rather waste as much money as possible hoping it will click for us. While we do that, the team looks without any direction.

In the last 4 years we have had following footballing philosophies:

Moyes: Cautious, defensive and pragmatic (4-5-1)
Martinez: Open, expansive and weak defensively (4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3)
Koeman (1st season): Blunt, high pressing, improved defence (3-5-2)
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Silva: Forward thinking with movement.


All different managers with varying philosophies. Hence I just want some clarity what the club wants and how much patience they will now have. Otherwise I am 100% sure our fans will label Silva as the Portuguese Martinez the moment things go south.
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Way too balanced and sensible.

Get in the bin ;)
 

Youorns84 said:
Well - the irony is delicious in you saying we are ‘entitled’ when various posters on here are claiming you’ll take our manager whenever you want. Over a week later since the first report and you still haven’t done it.
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You actually believe what you read in the press? Serious room for improvement here.
 
BlueToff said:
I want Silva - would be more than happy with him.

But... hear me out.

Dyche gets a lot of undue stick for what he 'isn't', IMO.

He isn't a manager who bases his entire managerial career on developing free-flowing football sides that can score 4-5 goals per-game.

What he is, is organised. Something that we are lacking massively, and until that organisation improves, we aren't going anywhere. We're a mess at the back and that isn't just because of the players. There's no leadership or organisation from the bench either. It needs sorting. I'd trust Dyche with that over Silva.
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That's a good post mate, and it's true what you say about people maybe being unfair to Dyche.

I think to be fair to Silva though, it's worth pointing out that he took over a Hull side with 1 clean sheet in 20 games last season (and none in their last 18 games), and managed to keep 4 in the remaining 18 games. He's then taken over a Watford side which kept 7 clean sheets last year and has kept 4 in the first 12 games of this one. It does seem that he has the ability to make defensive improvements.
 

Kenshin said:
Part of me hopes west Brom hire Silva just to make the board look foolish again tbh

Be interesting to see how quickly west Brom hire a manager compared to our clown college of a board
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WBA won't be targetting him so it won't happen, far more likely the ex Northern Ireland boss (or soon to be) Michael O'Neill or similar
 
Kenshin said:
Part of me hopes west Brom hire Silva just to make the board look foolish again tbh

Be interesting to see how quickly west Brom hire a manager compared to our clown college of a board
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I would bet my life that our board don't care in the slightest about looking foolish, they have looked foolish for a hell of a long time now but keep on acting like fools.
 

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