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Player Valuation: £25m
ok, for those if you who want him gone, do you really think our board will have anyone better lined up? In fact I could get my house that they woudnt look out this country and it would be Eddie Howe or someone you know it.
I cant think of anyone better really. We are going to go either for someone in the same mould as Silva - young unproven with ambition, or a low budget version of a world-class manager, like Koeman was, but again i can't think of anyone. If we were in 2016 now, the right person might have been Fonseca or Emery - i.e. a winner in the Europa League or winner of a different league, but now i don't think we will be as attractive to managers as we were, as the 'project' has stalled. The Koeman and Allardyce appointments would have made agents and managers think twice about joining us. We are not realistically going to get anyone who has one the PL or CL so really what's the point of change now?
We won't have anyone better lined up, and we have to give this idea 2 years to run. My only main concern is that we can't only depend on transfer windows, there has to be some evidence that Silva and his team can coach their way to improvement as well as overhauling the squad. To be fair, we have already seen most of the dead wood gone, and now are waiting just to be rid of them on permanent transfers rather than loans, and we are looking at competition for places in GK and attack. Once we are not dependent on Walcott and Tosun types, and DCL, Richarlison (Young players) and Bernard and Siggy (not elite players) for all of our attacking play, we'll be much better. I think we have to see the impact of one more summer, and then judge.