2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[orly]

So Gomez who was Shyte at Brighton, should have started......
Can Mina play CF?

When the two other options are Davies and Schneiderlin, he has to play Joe.

 

[BlueToff]

Yes we are unquestionably average and our position reflects that. But it is Silva's job to improve us with the players he has now.

His comments earlier regarding budgets are a deflection of that responsibility. It also suggests a lack of focus.

Things are hard enough without the manager looking for excuses six months in.

We don't need Martinez levels of enthusiasm but he seems to be struggling with this and has to come up with answers.

We were inevitably going to hit rough patches in the season but this slump has gone on too long.

What comments re budgets?

I've only seen the interview where he said it was a poor performance and neither team deserved to win.

 

[dannyboy]

Needs to stop rotating so much. We have struggled partly because Gylfi and Bernard not playing together for the whole game, no surprise we have had no goals. Fine if we go onto win the FA cup as we have rested players but we all know that isn't going to happen, so we should be at least playing the full team at home.

Our best run and football came with that settled side when Richarlison was playing through the middle. Need to get back to that for the time being.

 

[BlueToff]

Because we needed about 20 new players and only got 6.

We are still in a mess, but should also be doing much better.

But it's also right to say we have been very close to doing 'much' better.

Missing glaring chances at big moments in huge games, Tim. And while I accept that the responsibility is ultimately on the manager the players are the ones who miss those chances/make those mistakes.

We could realistically be 8 points better off, so 6th or 7th level with United. We aren't and we're to blame.

But you say 'we should be doing much better' like we're 17th. We're 10th, four points off seventh. I want us to be better, and like I've said above we have had the chances to do so and that's where the frustration comes from, but how much 'better' did you expect at this stage in the season? I'm not being pedantic or even disagreeing with your point, it's just easy to say 'we should be doing much better', but what is that better?

A start would be beating the likes of Watford, Newcastle and Leicester at home. I agree. And that would have us seven points better off. Is that 'much' better than where we are now?

 

[BlueToff]

Thing is they could be fatigued because they have had to play too many games. And they reason for that could be because the other options aint good enough.
Our bench is poor, the likes of Davies Morgan, Jags, Baines, Niasse, Tosun.. Can't start games

Exactly, so it's kind of a vicious circle... Whatever team Silva picks on Saturday, people won't be happy, because there will have to be changes due to form (which may or may not be down to fitness).

 

[davek]

The club sold him mate an never replaced him.

Koeman was publicly vocal in demanding a striker.

Marco Silva hasn't been. In fact, only the other day he was saying Everton don't need one.

So lets be fair. As per the article I wrote/linked in the weeks before we sacked Koeman;



At the time and even now, you wouldn't allow Koeman the lack of striker excuse. So its interesting to see you so quick to afford that excuse to Silva.

But it's an unreal position to take up that Koeman was denied an attacker he wanted when he had the best part of £150M to spend in a single window...a window where he used one-third of that warchest up paying for Siggurdsson alone.

It's like saying that someone who won £150M on the lottery and wasted it were hard done to when they demanded and were denied another £50M to give themselves another chance.

Koeman was the architect of his own decline here, there is no question of that. And his failure to replace Lukaku as a matter of urgency rather than try and get to the end of the window to land Giroud was about as appalling as it gets in strategic planning.

Silva's words on a striker are all about diplomacy. Of course he'd like another one, he stated so in that recent interview when he said he wasn't prioritising it. He said when he got Richarliosn in that he was a striker as much as a winger, and he may feel himself a hostage to that statement now. But that's all besides the real issue here: we have a DoF OVER AND ABOVE the manager, who;'s job is to put together a squad that has depth and quality to it. If he's looking at this team with no right side to it of note, no quality striker and no competition at GK and he concludes that this window will have to be a quiet window, then I have to ask what the point of this post and appointment of Brands is.

In short: give Silva the tools to do the job. He may as well be sacked if he isn't getting them.

 

[ToffeeTim]

But it's also right to say we have been very close to doing 'much' better.

Missing glaring chances at big moments in huge games, Tim. And while I accept that the responsibility is ultimately on the manager the players are the ones who miss those chances/make those mistakes.

We could realistically be 8 points better off, so 6th or 7th level with United. We aren't and we're to blame.

But you say 'we should be doing much better' like we're 17th. We're 10th, four points off seventh. I want us to be better, and like I've said above we have had the chances to do so and that's where the frustration comes from, but how much 'better' did you expect at this stage in the season? I'm not being pedantic or even disagreeing with your point, it's just easy to say 'we should be doing much better', but what is that better?

A start would be beating the likes of Watford, Newcastle and Leicester at home. I agree. And that would have us seven points better off. Is that 'much' better than where we are now?

Doing better is winning our home games. We are about 8-10 points off where I would have expected us to be.

My issue today was we created nothing whatsoever which is far worse. And the performances in the last 4 or 5 weeks have significantly regressed. I want to see signs of progression but it's not happenning right now.

It all feels a little bit comfortable for everyone. No one is striving for better and instead talking about next year. The next game is always the next one as far as I'm concerned. It's like we've forgotten that simple fact.

 

[davek]

How Dave? Reads very clearly and makes perfect sense?

Not to me.

 

[davek]

Shall I lay it out a little easier for you to understand.



Koeman needed a striker.

He actually didn't have the same options as Silva does. Silva has been using Richarlison.

He publicly stated many times that he needed one.

You are giving Silva more support than you gave Koeman.

The reason seems to be because Silva needs a striker.


logic?!

Koeman pissed a couple of hundred million up against the wall, and you expect more understanding for that divvy than Silva?

Have a think about it.

 

[Azza]

Walsh pissed a couple of hundred million up against the wall, and you expect more understanding for that divvy than Silva?

Have a think about it.

Fixed.

 

[davek]

Can still not believe my own previous judgement about him. He really needs to get his head straight. He fumbled around again today. Laughing at his own mistakes ,and that stupid shouting at own players when he's the one who should have a smacking. He definitely needs to sit out some games. It's somewhat embarrassing now. Some humility from him wouldn't have hurt to say the least.

He's a clown, and turning on Kenny today to excuse one of his own latest gaffes just about sums up what a classless little turd he is too.

Bin. ASAP.

 

[ijjysmith]

The club sold him mate an never replaced him.

Koeman was publicly vocal in demanding a striker.

Marco Silva hasn't been. In fact, only the other day he was saying Everton don't need one.

So lets be fair. As per the article I wrote/linked in the weeks before we sacked Koeman;



At the time and even now, you wouldn't allow Koeman the lack of striker excuse. So its interesting to see you so quick to afford that excuse to Silva.

I’m fairly sure we could have had at least a couple of strikers after Lukaku left (not including Giroud), but Koeman didn’t want them.

Josh King was one of them if I recall.

 

[ijjysmith]

He's a clown, and turning on Kenny today to excuse one of his own latest gaffes just about sums up what a classless little turd he is too.

Bin. ASAP.

This sort of thing doesn’t help anyone mate.

 

[davek]

Fixed.

Nonsense. Look at the players signes: Klaassen, Sigurdsson, Pickford, Keane....all players Koeman professed admiration for.

Walsh my arse.

 

[BlueToff]

Doing better is winning our home games. We are about 8-10 points off where I would have expected us to be.

My issue today was we created nothing whatsoever which is far worse. And the performances in the last 4 or 5 weeks have significantly regressed. I want to see signs of progression but it's not happenning right now.

It all feels a little bit comfortable for everyone. No one is striving for better and instead talking about next year. The next game is always the next one as far as I'm concerned. It's like we've forgotten that simple fact.

I agree with all of that mate.

My counter is that people should take into account that we really haven't been far off though. I'm not saying it's all bad luck - we haven't deserved anything from today, Brighton, or more than what we got v Watford or Newcastle.

But we didn't deserve to lose the derby. Gomes and Mina miss sitters that still haunt me. We didn't deserve to lose at the Emirates, really. We wasted big chances even on the first day against Wolves. We wasted big chances in the draw at home to Huddersfield.

My point is as crap as it is at the moment, we're close to being 'better' (using your definition of 8-10 points better off). Fine margins, and all that.

So instead of sack shouts (I know you haven't said that) we should just see what can happen after another window but more importantly, some more time. Five months is nothing when you're trying to change the entire style and substance of play. Yes, there have been mistakes. By Silva and by the players. A huge game on Saturday.