I was intrigued by your last line and the opening paragraph of substance in the article. Its tough to judge Silva too harshly when you think he's like 5 years older than Jags. So Brands and Co have said that the way forward for the club is to find young talent that has not fulfilled their full potential yet but have the potential to become great... is this the philosophy with Silva? If yes thats a big gamble.
Can't see him coming back to Everton. Meant the PL.
I hope he goes on to do good things. He's now a Blue after all.
He'll get good experience from this.
Without out going all boring and getting too much into tactics
It seems like Silva wants to play a variant of the Bielsa style
High press and quicker vertical mvt.
He's had success in some ways with the press, but it doesn't fit with the rest, the solutions are more complexed than what he's doing.
And he doesn't have the defensive style players, and no, Zouma is not anywhere close to the answer.
The quicker vertical mvt has been an utter failure.
In the rare times he does get it going his overall set up tends to be defensively weak, which leads to hesitation and poor tempo and your back to square one; he has been lucky with not conceding a lot more.
But it all comes to a shuddering halt when you get to the stalwart philosophy of the lower teams who know how to survive, the anti football approach of sit deep and knick a goal. Sheffield United just made Silva their bitch.
He is so far away from solving it just a little bit.
In stat that he hasn't come from behind to win there's almost something endearing about him not seeming to give a damn about conceding from corners. Like he is too preoccupied with finding the other answer. He just needs to go and do that somewhere else.