Marco Silva Confirmed As New Everton Manager

[bol-uk]

He is allowed. Israeli citizen now.

I see no reason why any of the top 6 would struggle next season, and all of them are likely to spend more in the summer than we will.

Rebranding ourselves as the best steppping stone to clubs like Madrid, Barca, Milan, Utd, City, PSG, Bayern for top talented young players will be our best strategy I would think. Liverpool did it post Benitez and it’s worked very well for them.

I think he has seen his arse though, pulled the new stadium deal so far.

 

[kensingtonsez]

He is allowed. Israeli citizen now.

I see no reason why any of the top 6 would struggle next season, and all of them are likely to spend more in the summer than we will.

Rebranding ourselves as the best steppping stone to clubs like Madrid, Barca, Milan, Utd, City, PSG, Bayern for top talented young players will be our best strategy I would think. Liverpool did it post Benitez and it’s worked very well for them.

Arsenal - Transition
Spurs - Too reliant on Kane and law of averages says that he is due a poor season.
Man Utd - Fans are getting restless (including me), squad is without defense and balanced midfield. We are unable to get our top targets, may struggle this year. Mourinho's tactics are outdated.
Chelsea - Ageing squad, manager uncertainty, lack of funds apparently. They are changing their business model to be more sustainable in the long run. I think its hogwash, Roman is bored of football now.
City and Liverpool are only looking somewhat upwards but we know how the latter can drop to the mid table in no time.

Everton definitely have an opportunity, I would say its now or never.

 

[Lord Buckethead]

Nīl satis nisi optimum????

Silva est non optimus

 

[Kenshin]

Arsenal - Transition
Spurs - Too reliant on Kane and law of averages says that he is due a poor season.
Man Utd - Fans are getting restless (including me), squad is without defense and balanced midfield. We are unable to get our top targets, may struggle this year. Mourinho's tactics are outdated.
Chelsea - Ageing squad, manager uncertainty, lack of funds apparently. They are changing their business model to be more sustainable in the long run. I think its hogwash, Roman is bored of football now.
City and Liverpool are only looking somewhat upwards but we know how the latter can drop to the mid table in no time.

Everton definitely have an opportunity, I would say its now or never.

We have this every year though and we never do anything.

 

[MartinVanger]

I like how one of Silva's plus points is that he nearly kept Hull up. The previous manager spent the last few years keeping crisis clubs like Palace and Sunderland up every time.
He is younger, more handsome and I dare say more pleasant than Mr Allardyce but It will be a nice surprise to me if he is a better football manager

 

[TheVelourFog]

Arsenal - Transition
Spurs - Too reliant on Kane and law of averages says that he is due a poor season.
Man Utd - Fans are getting restless (including me), squad is without defense and balanced midfield. We are unable to get our top targets, may struggle this year. Mourinho's tactics are outdated.
Chelsea - Ageing squad, manager uncertainty, lack of funds apparently. They are changing their business model to be more sustainable in the long run. I think its hogwash, Roman is bored of football now.
City and Liverpool are only looking somewhat upwards but we know how the latter can drop to the mid table in no time.

Everton definitely have an opportunity, I would say its now or never.

interesting that in the last 15 years, some combination of those 6 teams have made up the Top 4 in all but 2 of those years.

That Everton was one of those gatecrashers is cause for some optimism perhaps.

 

[bluesb1970]

He is allowed. Israeli citizen now.

I see no reason why any of the top 6 would struggle next season, and all of them are likely to spend more in the summer than we will.

Rebranding ourselves as the best steppping stone to clubs like Madrid, Barca, Milan, Utd, City, PSG, Bayern for top talented young players will be our best strategy I would think. Liverpool did it post Benitez and it’s worked very well for them.

Not to work though

 

[zebedee]

interesting that in the last 15 years, some combination of those 6 teams have made up the Top 4 in all but 2 of those years.

That Everton was one of those gatecrashers is cause for some optimism perhaps.

Barr the last two season with bobby brown shoes we were top 6 contenders as well. We unfortunately haven't progressed since then. We are far off but not a million miles off it that make sense. If we get our youngsters playing well there is no doubt there is huge talent there so within the next two seasons we'll shed the plucky Everton brand and actually be liked by the SS.

 

[Roztitute]

Marco had Will Hughes looking like Iniesta for a while there. Hoping he can work magic with better players (only slightly better mind).

 

[thebluenosebolt]

I’m guessing you’re talking about last season, but Koeman had a great start in his first season. AFAIR it was the best start we ever had.

Last season yeah ...obvs

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Nīl satis nisi optimum????

Silva est non optimus

That’s some poor Latin, my Lord

 

[Lord Buckethead]

That’s some poor Latin, my Lord

Apologies.

this Pound Shop Martinez has scrambled my linguistics.

 

[davek]

disagree mate and feel this is where you let yourself fall for Martinez - to progress we need to be consistenly in and around the top 7/8 places and challenging to actually get to the semi's/finals of the domestic cups.

If Silva has us finishing 12th with no trophy I'll be wanting the bloke out as he will have taken us back.

I backed Martinez into he final season because he had us closer to silverware than we'd been for 6 seasons. The PL position was unacceptable for a third season in charge.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Barr the last two season with bobby brown shoes we were top 6 contenders as well. We unfortunately haven't progressed since then. We are far off but not a million miles off it that make sense. If we get our youngsters playing well there is no doubt there is huge talent there so within the next two seasons we'll shed the plucky Everton brand and actually be liked by the SS.

The top 4 is still difficult but the top 6 is not out of reach at all. There’s always s couple of them having a bad league season. In recent times Chelsea have finished tenth under Mourinho, Liverpool 8th under Klopp, United 6th under Mourinho and Van Gaal and 7th under Moyes.

City and United look very solid for the top 4 but you couldn’t say what any other side might do depending on how Emery gets on, if Pochettino stays, whatever happens at Chelsea, and if Salah gets injured/Klopp has a breakdown.

 

[davek]

BTW, delighted we never went near Arteta, which we could well have done given the circumstances. That really would have been a disaster in the making.

I think he'll stay at City despite the Girona links.

Silva was the correct decision. Always go with experience over inexperience if possible.