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Reports: Everton have sacked Marco Silva with Massimiliano Allegri set to take over on a 3 year contract. Announcement tomorrow.

Honestly, what's he done to merit a job here? He took Hull down and Watford were more than pleased to get rid of him after their form fell off a cliff. At least Martinez had won the FA Cup with Wigan before coming here. We took a gamble on Silva but he just isn't that good.

Can't even see us in that second graph. But yeah you can say it did. And it gave them a massive lift as well.

Sorry, but I voted yes. I've had enough. We've spunked a whole lot of money and for what? We've gone backwards or at the very least have stayed the same. The tactics, team selections and just whole atmosphere is shocking. He took over Hull in January that season and had more than enough time to...

Not that Silva is going anywhere (nor should he), but for the sake of argument say that he was. We'd probably go after a washed up Mourinho and once he predictably fails wonder where it all went wrong again. Look at how well Hasenhuttl is doing at Southampton. We're scared to take risks and...

So you think the gulf between a Chelsea side that is 7 points behind 2nd place City is a bigger one than the gulf between 3rd place Spurs and 6th Mancs, where 13 points separate them. Not to mention the 15 points separating us from Spurs. Logic that. lol The gulf in class between the top 4 and...

Who's in their league though? The RS will win tomorrow and go top and they're still not in City's league. No side is. That's what spending 2 billion quid or whatever it is and being owned by a country does. We competed and that's all you can ask for against a side so financially doped.

Encouraging signs. We are going to these top sides and giving them a game, creating chances and scoring. We're not at that level yet to be expecting points wise from them. What's not encouraging is that if we lose to the Spuds next weekend we'll go into boxing day on 24 points whereas during...

Lukaku has proven himself to be a 15-20 goal per season striker season after season. Richarlison is a great player but not a goal scorer of Lukaku's calibre so it's way too early to be saying who you'd swap him for or wouldn't. If Lukaku was in the side yesterday we'd have gone in at a minimum...

We have the players to dominate most teams in the league though. In a way we did that against Arsenal but just couldn't finish. I'm not sure being defensive and counter attacking in nature is the way to go. Silva doesn't have a good defensive record.

Then don't, don't give a toss really.

If you don't take your chances against the better clubs, it'll come back to bite you. Simples. We should have been a goal or two up at half time. What's more concerning to me was that we just threw in the towel and gave up as soon as that second goal went it. On 59 minutes. Don't tell me we...

I don't know why everyone's going bonkers all of a sudden. 1 win in 7 is a poor start but I'm seeing shouts of Silva out in the manager's thread and a whole lot of other nonsense. We have to know where we are as a club. We're miles off competing for a top 4 place and finished 7th last season...

Aye they truly did find multiple ways of winning You can stand in front of Karius hoping he hits you with the ball You can shoot on sight at their goal knowing he'll absolutely cock it up