Silva must go

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He’s never been the most charismatic has he, goes without saying. I noticed during his presser before the Palace game he looked a bit downbeat to say the season was about to start, wasn’t expecting a Klopp monster much teeth style presser but he did look at bit miffed.

I also thought it was interesting he had to approach the players and tell them to go over to the fans after Lincoln game.

Not defending him, he has faults but my feeling is this isn’t just about him, more a collective thing, those above him and the players too.
 

Fortunately there are some people here who don't suffer from knee jerk reactions.

We are wasting the money and going backwards if we are continuing to sack managers each time some of our fans have a knee jerk reaction.



I am struck by some with negativity and lack of forward thinking.
How long do you you give it then? Another season going nowhere? OK, he might go on a decent run at some stage like last season but he's just as likely to go on another "no win in 12" run again. He hasnt got a plan B, sits there sulking when things dont go his way and cant set up a team to defend.
 
How long do you you give it then? Another season going nowhere? OK, he might go on a decent run at some stage like last season but he's just as likely to go on another "no win in 12" run again. He hasnt got a plan B, sits there sulking when things dont go his way and cant set up a team to defend.

Away form needs to improve, but this was certainly a good run of home results for someone who can't set up a team to defend.

Everton 0 Liverpool 0
Everton 2 Chelsea 0
Everton 1 Arsenal 0
Everton 4 Manchester United 0
Everton 2 Burnley 0
Everton 1 Watford 0
 
Away form needs to improve, but this was certainly a good run of home results for someone who can't set up a team to defend.

Everton 0 Liverpool 0
Everton 2 Chelsea 0
Everton 1 Arsenal 0
Everton 4 Manchester United 0
Everton 2 Burnley 0
Everton 1 Watford 0

Demonstrates how fickle our fans can be, towards the end of the season raving about Marco and the team, fast forward a few games...

Agree that we are on a poor run of form and that some decisions are questionable, but to knee jerk and say he must go at this point is laughable.
 
Away form needs to improve, but this was certainly a good run of home results for someone who can't set up a team to defend.

Everton 0 Liverpool 0
Everton 2 Chelsea 0
Everton 1 Arsenal 0
Everton 4 Manchester United 0
Everton 2 Burnley 0
Everton 1 Watford 0

We were poor against Watford mate and they are absolutely HONKING so far this season. I cant remember much of the Burnley game in truth, remember us taking the lead via a deflection and scoring a second due to a keeper howler giving Coleman a headed tap in.

Liverpool should have scored (Salah had two absolute sitters which he delayed on to allow Keane and PIckford to do their stuff)
Chelsea should have scored.
Arsenal - We were excellent and it was criminal we only won 1-0.
United - Mixture of a superb Everton performance and the worst United team to come to Goodison.

Fantastic run and obviously you need a bit of luck against the top sides but just dont be fooled by the away 0 on two of those games as we should have been a goal or two down against Chelsea and Liverpool. For all the good of those last few home games (I say home speicfically as we were atroscious away as always) we had a run of 3 wins in 16 games, which effectively cost us not only the Europa League this season but also entry to the the group stages as a whole.

He doesn't set his team up well at all. We consistently play 2 holding midfielders regardless of who we play. We show absolutely zero ambition going forward and making good and controlled use of the ball. We have a right back who has no idea how to cross a ball and yet we seemed to persist to go down his side on Saturday as opposed to the left. We CONSTANTLY tried to go through the middle, where Kean was marked by three players with Sheffield United playing a low block and having 10 behind the ball, as compact as possible so we couldn't get through. Notice how they focused on Digne not being given space to cross while Coleman was given much more? Absolutely planned.

Every now and then it clicks and we look absolutely superb. However its far more often it doesn't click and we look disjointed, we look like the team have no cohesion whatsoever and completely without a plan. We also managed to concede four set piece goals in a row (corner, free kick, throw in, corner). I have less issue with the second goal against Sheff Utd. While not good enough when we are pushing for a goal there is always a risk of a counter attack goal like that.

Bottom line is Silva is a mediocre manager, this isn't just a few months and wanting him gone, this is a season and then a summer where we appear to have signed some flair and quality and still have no idea how to attack teams.

Silva was questioned with the task of beating a team who parked the bus on Saturday. He had ZERO answer for it, along with some players who were absolutely anonymous (special mention to Siggurdsson). One of the most baffling decisions being bringing on Walcott instead of Calvert-Lewin. I hate DCL as a footballer, he isn't good, isn't smart with his feet and doesn't have the brain for it. HOWEVER, he is a decent header of the ball, and in a game where crossing was our biggest threat, you'd think it would have been better to have another target in the box rather than Theo Walcott who just isn't arsed, isn't intelligent and has zero quality. He took Bernard off when out of the front four he was the one who was making things tick a lot more in the first half.

Please note @Stanley Parker the whole reply isn't to you, just the first couple of paras. As you can see i have been holding out my raging anger with this club since Saturday.

Rant over. The frustration and disappointment is real with this club. Appoint a manager who has done very little in his career and this is what we should have expected (Im sorry, but winning the league with Sporting in a three-horse race and winning the league with Olympiacos which is a one-horse race is NOT an achievement). I was foolishly rather excited about this season, signed some quality in the summer (Apart from the huge blunder of not signing a quality CB)
 

Everyone says that we need to give him time. Things don’t happen overnight blah blah blah. If we’d have appointed brendan Rodgers instead of Silva, I’ve no doubt we would be a serious threat to the top 6. In fact, I think we’d be a sure thing. A proven premier league manager who is used to winning. Not losing. Think our guys lost more games than he’s won in the prem
 
Our team is evolving. We have started the season without the midfield partnership of Gana and Gomes - it will take time to build a new one. At the same time, Keane seems to be missing Zouma.

And who could have imagined that we would successfully play a right winger on the left and a left winger on the right. Digne and Bernard seem to play together well. Iwobi may be a better goal scorer than Bernard, but I'm not sure that he has improved the team yet.

We need to take more of the chances we create. We still need a centre-forward!

And if we have been lucky in recent home games, we were definitely unlucky against Sheffield United. If we had scored first, as we could and should have done, it would have been a comfortable home win. It often needs patience to break down a defensive team. It should be a more open game at Hillsborough and then home to City.
 
Very concerned about him Coming out and lambasting the players.

Usually that means a lot of discontent. Don’t want to be hasty with changes, abut can’t see him publically moaning being helpful!
 

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