Silva has an awful lot to prove today. Looking at wolves and in particular Leicester, both have managers getting the best out of their players everyweek. Both also show much better tactical awareness than silva. That is despite the fact we have arguably got a more talented squad than both mentioned, if not at least equal.
We were handed a very easy start to the season and have had a below average return. If today goes the same way as last seasons walk in the park to wolves he has to be under massive pressure for me. And no I don’t think it’s too early to say that he has had a year and preseason to work with the players and at this point isn’t improving them. I never said anything like this last season, even when we were turgent around Xmas because he needed to be given time. I understand there are new players to embed who can improve us but my concern is how poor Richarlison, sig , Gomes etc have been. All excellent players and have looked championship so far. It is silvas job to have them mentally and physically right to play their best and he isn’t delivering given how poor the opposition we have faced.
Having said all of that, despite the fact I think we’re behind wolves right now they are still very beatable. One big performance and a narrow win and things look a lot different. The players have to show they want to play for silva today anything as poor as the opening 3 games and we are 100% getting beat.