Mate I'm sure the reason all 3 signed was a combination of factors and not just Silva. The fact that we're an established club in the premiership. The fact that we have Moshiri behind us and have the appetite/ability to meet the transfer/wage demands. The fact that we now have an experienced and respected operator like Marcel Brands doing the negotiating with the clubs/agents. But the fact that all 3 mentioned Silva proves he was also an important part of the process.
I'm not trying to make Silva out to be our saviour or anything. In fact I believe that the best signing we made this summer was Marcel Brands. But at the same time let's not understate the role he has played in the very swift turnaround in the general feeling around the club. 6 months ago I was probably at my lowest ebb in over 50 years of supporting Everton. Now I feel as optimistic about the future as I can ever remember and Silva is a big part of that. At the same time I appreciate that there is still lot's to be done, but I just feel that in Moshiri/Brands/Silva were in good hands.
Sound and thanks for the considered response and context.
Yeah, its been a loooong time.
I'd just be coming from a bit of a different place, and thus view Silva differently.
Years of frustration over not being able to progress further under Moyes.
Rather than getting in world class forwards it was more about whether Baines would go to United, and the like.
We had the base from which to mount a proper challenge. To be the Blues again.
And while Martinez's first season was heady times, by the end, it only sought to confirm that at the core nothing had changed.
Despite intentions, subsequent manifestations - the same.
If anything, we'd lost a bit of heart and fight on the pitch - the identity of what the Blues are, was withering away.
(I've no doubt that some of this was re-channeled into the EITC)
If anything was learnt from the Koeman era it is you can't try and transplant something else
certainly not that quickly and certainly not without the right players coming in and out at the right time.
What should be done is one question.
Another is what the club is about.
I find it intolerable after all this time that we want things to change while we have a mid table mentality.
Nothing sickens me more than - we played well against Arsenal, we just didn't take our chances; we were away to United, we did ok; we got a draw against the RS, we weren't beaten; well at least it wasn't a drubbing; over and over again.
When we beat City that time, it was like I'm not sure how to feel - this to me has become uniquely Everton.
And for sure, the players have a sense of all this.
The club should be about winning titles, beating the best, genuinely competing in Europe - with its identity in tact - on the pitch nothing else matters.
With the owner and Brands we've made strides.
And not since Martinez first season are we finally playing attacking football again - COYB
But as yet, Silva has proved nothing.
