The amount Silva has spent n players at his disposal he should be getting much better results.
Mostly agree with you sir.
After 20 we're on exactly the same number of points as Big Sam's season. Bearing in mind that tally for Sam included the immediate escape act from Koeman and that agent clown we bagged from Leicester, that 27 points is a worry and we should be higher, you're right.
The one breathing space I'd personally give Silva is, we could conceivably be 10+ pts higher up:
Losses to Brighton away, West Ham home and the draw with Watford.
Poor: low effort
Dropped points to Huddersfield, Newcastle, Bournemouth & Wolves.
Poor: lack of concentration.
Given it's taken a while to get his preferred back four in shape, I'm hopeful we'll see that patchiness dry up a bit and we'll have an off game one in 6 not one in 3 or at least 4. I'm genuinely hopeful we'll be in our correct squad berth of 'best of the rest' come May. I don't recall us playing the kind of football yet this season to really lay a punch on the top 6, much as it pains me to say that.
Hope that doesn't sound defeatist, for me there is a harsh reality that our squad lacks 3-4 home grown 'generals' or characters that have quality AND win you half a dozen gnarly games a season on effort, pressure and concentration. What Klopp said about 'forcing the mistake' after the Arsenal game is golden. It sums up the pre 2018 German team's winning mentality in that; everyone being equal, the superiority in the three areas above will expose human error. Ferguson, Lescott, Coleman, Baines, Jags, and overseas talent like Pienaar, Gravesen, Arteta, Cahill, Yobo, Yak etc etc. Total 100% ers.
The erosion of this quality in our squad set-in under Martinez and 'quick fixes'. Yes Lukaku nearly bagged us CL with a cracking tally, but it was built on the quality above. Since Moyes, Everton no longer develops sufficient numbers of long-serving English / British or 'Club' men that have been a characteristic of 95% of successful top 4 teams for as long as I can remember. We're playing at it in Lookman, Davies, Baningame etc. I really wanna see these lads in. The balance is difficult, and it needs time. As fans we must be patient in that long term view.
The following squad 'eras' won nearly
50 titles:
Chelsea: Terry, Cole(s), Lamps, Drogba, Cech etc, Ivanevic, Makelele, Essien, etc
United (various), Keane, Irwin, Stam, Bruce, Pallister, Ince, the class of 92 etc, Sheringhman, Ole, Cole, Yorke, Van Nistelrooy etc
Arsenal, 'the back 4 + seaman', Wright, Bergkamp, Parlour, Petit, Viera, Pirez, Henry etc
We'll be a merry-go-round of best of the rest until we fix those underlying structures. Perhaps it's connected to the stadium and perhaps that talent pool is already being developed with a 3-5-10 year view. I hope so.
