2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

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The whole club could massively do with a result that takes us out of the very depressing predictability that has a stranglehold on us.

Cannon fodder for the top six, a generally embarrassing away record for a club with lofty aspirations, and a string of early cup exits.

I'm fully behind Silva, but ideally earlier rather than later in his tenure here he needs to be able to pull off a result that goes against expectations, once in a while. I'm not expecting anything unrealistic, but he and we need that as a club, and as manager, he has to find ways of doing it.

Even the Leicester game at the weekend, for me at least, is another huge ask for us to get a win from. Anytime we have any sort of hope that things might improve, this team has the uncanny ability to bring us all back down to earth.

We were decent but naive against Bournemouth, and I at least want to see some of that hunger at away games. Something has to change, and whilst this is clearly a transitional period, the manager and players need to at least set down some markers and give us confidence and a degree of momentum.
 
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Khalekan said:
If I am honest with you Tim, I think United is a more "winnable" match than Leicester.

Vardy must be relishing Saturday's game.
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We get can get at their defence too without doubt. They will play on the front foot. Up to us to be solid and exploit the space.

Leicester is very winnable (with our best side dare I say), United isn't really to me. Put it this way, I'd be chuffed and a little surprised if we beat Leicester away, but I'd be absolutely gobsmacked if we win at Old Trafford.
 
ToffeeTim said:
We get can get at their defence too without doubt. They will play on the front foot. Up to us to be solid and exploit the space.

Leicester is very winnable (with our best side dare I say), United isn't really to me. Put it this way, I'd be chuffed and a little surprised if we beat Leicester away, but I'd be absolutely gobsmacked if we win at Old Trafford.
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I fancy our chances at OT as things stand with them at the moment.
 
phil_t98 said:
Baines? he did nothing wrong last night and he is excellent back up at the moment for Digne
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What's that got to do with the price of fish? The point was that you can't say he wasn't resting players and just wanted to see what players could do when some of the players he brought in have played a number of games under him already. He was quite clearly just resting people, trying to suggest otherwise is absolutely ridiculous.
 

Silva has gone down a bit in my estimations after last night. I am not saying that he put a poor team out because he didn't, well apart from playing the pensioner in goal which was the most ridiculous decision of the lot but making 7 changes against a premiership team when we have been struggling with a starting 11 but have just had a decent result and are trying to get some stability and momentum going and when the players have just got 1 more match to play in the next 3 weeks is ridiculous and shows a lack of respect to the club, supporters and a couple of decades of being trophy-less. We are not Man City. We are miles away from being a top team and have no chance of challenging the top 6 this season and we all accept that we are in transition and so the only chance we have got of winning anything this season is via the 2 cup competitions. That is now down to 1 cup competition which is completely down to the Manager. Couldnt care less about penalties or the fact there were still good players on the field. It wasnt the team that he would choose in the premier league and it fecking well should have been.

I will still get behind him as we need some stability and i am sick to death of changing managers but he has definitely lost some respect from me. Just another smart ass ignorant to how much the supporters long for a trophy in the cabinet or at least an effort and run to try and get it there. Only signal he sent out by making 7 changes from a winning team and resting a top class goalkeeper when it could easily go to penalties was that he wasn't that bothered about the competition and that will have been felt by the payers too. Why bother as much as normal if the boss isn't as bothered.

Anyway i hope he takes the FA Cup more serious than he did the league cup.

Sorry about the rant. ;)
 
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The Penalty Box Dancer said:
Does it not remind you of Martinez? Ignorant to the defensive frailties? We don't look solid at the back and every corner we concede, I dread. We are always going to concede and Silva won't address that as long as we score more at the other end.
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A pop gun attack remind me of a Martinez team in full rampant counter-attacking mode with players breaking from wide and deep with Lukaku spearheading it?

No.
 
mikeh72 said:
He actually isn’t like.
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Turned Villarreal into a Champions League team, and was a missed penalty away from a final, on a shoestring budget.

Took Malaga into the Champions League.

Broke Real Madrid's league points record.

Won a title at City.

He also plays attacking, expansive football. I don't know what people expect, or who they're comparing him to.
 
MarcelsGoat said:
Maybe, but hes not a long term option, hes not gonna get us 4th in 1 or 2 seasons and you have to consider does he have more than 2 seasons to give?
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I don't think there's such thing as a long-term option in the current climate. They're no different than players now.
 

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