I think it's too early to say that definitively. New manager bounce is definitely a thing, it's only if results markedly improve in the long term - with the same players - that we can say Silva was the issue and recruitment was fine.In spite of injuries to Gbamin Schneidelin,Gomes,Iwobi we have seen results improve when Marco Silva was sacked.
The squad is far from complete but it was always said that it would take more than a couple of transfer windows to make it complete.
The improved results show that recruitment was not really ever the issue.
Do we need to revisit locked up in Thailand?