Bob Elstone
Player Valuation: £35m
Amazing that some people still think we should have stuck with Martinez. The bloke was a total charlatan.
And how do you know I’m wrong? HypocrisyYou can, but you'd be wrong.
None of that explains how you know how he coaches or if he's a leader. You don't see either.
Welcome to the internet mate.
And how do you know I’m wrong? Hypocrisy
Am I alone in thinking that he's quality? It's going to take time for the squad to adapt to how he wants to play. This, mixed with some pretty rotten luck, and he is still outperforming our last 2 managers!
Will be surprised if he doesn't have at least another 2 full seasons with us
Not necessarily true. Koeman did manage 61 points in his first season and Allardyce did manage to get us to 50 points even after that horrid start and abysmal squad. Silva may or may not be the guy, but overall, he has not had the team playing consistently enough this season. Set pieces have also been a disaster. That has to improve.Am I alone in thinking that he's quality? It's going to take time for the squad to adapt to how he wants to play. This, mixed with some pretty rotten luck, and he is still outperforming our last 2 managers!
Will be surprised if he doesn't have at least another 2 full seasons with us
49 mateNot necessarily true. Koeman did manage 61 points in his first season and Allardyce did manage to get us to 50 points even after that horrid start and abysmal squad. Silva may or may not be the guy, but overall, he has not had the team playing consistently enough this season. Set pieces have also been a disaster. That has to improve.
My mistake49 mate
Also had a minus 14 GD. Worst in the top 11 teams I believe. Wasn't a good season at all. Which I why I believe Silva should be evaluated on things like that come the end of season. Pts obv but also things like GF, GA and other similar stats which will show overall improvement or not. What I mean is it shouldn't just be a case of if he gets less or the same pts as Sam then he's not up to the task. Other areas need to be evaluated too.My mistake
Sam wasn’t up to snuff either obviously, but he got results. Silva is looking a bit like Roberto atm. We could very easily have been top 4 in the first half of the season had we dealt with set pieces and avoided silly mistakes.Also had a minus 14 GD. Worst in the top 11 teams I believe. Wasn't a good season at all. Which I why I believe Silva should be evaluated on things like that come the end of season. Pts obv but also things like GF, GA and other similar stats which will show overall improvement or not. What I mean is it shouldn't just be a case of if he gets less or the same pts as Sam then he's not up to the task. Other areas need to be evaluated too.
What are the criteria they chose?Have you read it? It is very fair.
My concern is very simple. Silva might be more fashionable, handsome and attack minded than Koeman and Allardyce but the fact is that we haven't progressed forwards at all. We were crap last season and only finished 8th because the rest of the teams were ever crapper. It really wasn't a hard season to beat for any new Manager. On the contrary, doing better was a must regardless of transition. So here is last seasons end stats followed by this season with 7 games to go. What is the difference? There isn't any. Both seasons have been crap and we haven't moved forwards at all under Silva and it has nothing to do with transition.
2017/2018
Win - 13
Draw - 10
Lose - 15
Total Points - 49
2018/2019 with 7 games remaining 3 of which are against the top 6
Win - 11
Draw - 7
Lose - 13
Total Points after 31 games - 40
Just to equal last season he has to get 9 more points on the board. We could actually end up doing worse than last season yet as unbelievable as that might have seemed at the start of the season. Even if he does it i will find it hard to get behind him and will be nervous about more inconsistency and slumps next season as that is all he has ever done in this league so that is all we can go off.
Got to have a strong finish starting from tomorrow to even have a chance of still being the Manager next season in my humble opinion.
We literally beat a top 6 team in our last game, something we hadnt done for 2 years.
Theres ya progress.