I’m firmly backing Silva.
Give him the summer, he’s a young manager dealing with a very different set of problems to what he’s ever worked in before.
He’s shown glimpses of quality, admittedly he’s shown errors. However the squad he’s working with we all know is limited in what you can do with so little quality in key areas.
For me, he’s got the summer to address some of the issues he’s been in the hot seat for a while. I have faith he can turn it around.
I do struggle with the idea a new manager just fixes this. If we did get a new manager in - they need time to review the team and ultimately may arrive at the same conclusions as Silva has made. We would in theory be taking longer to reach were we are now.
Last season, we identified the weak areas and improved. This close season we need to once again identify a striker, CM x 2, CB, RB & RW. If we get the players the results improve. Silva is in no mans land right now and he never put us there.
The right additions coming in will see us in better shape. People can argue the manager is at fault, but for me the issues have gone on longer than just this manager and changing the manager right now just delays the improvements we can take in the summer.
Seasons a right off, we need to improve set plays and hopefully we see Silva get a bit of fight back in the team.
My expectations for this season were low anticipating the job was nowhere near done and this summer is just the next naturally step both he and Brands can take to make us better.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s going to take patience, but it’s better than just scrapping everything and starting again without actually allowing someone the time and resources to implement the next steps.