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2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

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hktoffee said:
Who? McCarthy, Lennon, Cleverley, Deulofeu, Barry and Holgate? Wow this is getting silly lol.
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McCarthy - would of offered something else in midfield apart from giving the ball away.
Lennon - in his peak far better than Walcott
Cleverley- same as McCarthy.
Deulofeu - why he was ever let go was a mystery. Currently tearing it up with Watford.
Barry - people jizz over Gueye when Barry was Gueye with the ability to pass.
Holgate - actually possesses pace. Would rather see him than Coleman on the right or in the middle replacing Keane.
 
We can’t let the players fire another manager otherwise they will do exactly the same to the next one. They need to see players leaving rather than the manager so the message is rammed home that they can’t just down tools every time they feel like it. We need to stick with Silva and let him fix some of the problems we have in the playing squad. There’s a rotten core that needs flushing out. Schneiderlin, Keane, Baines, Siggurdson, Gueye, Jagielka, Walcott all need moving on and that’s before we even get to the clowns who are out on loan.
 
Saint Domingo said:
Anyone who derides Moyes’ football should watch some of the goals from that season and especially the home game v Fiorentina. We absolutely dismantled them. An absolute light year above any of the football we’ve seen since he left.

Osman smashes in from 25 yards after a back heel assist from Pienaar to round off a move that started in our own penalty box. Moronic Everton fans: ‘that Moyes is a football dinosaur, hoooof, keep it tight and pinch one is back, fed up of these routine home wins’.

I sometimes think the last 5 years has been a bit of karma for some of the over entitled whining that was going on when we were qualifying for Europe, getting to Wembley, and finishing in the top 5.
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To be fair we played some outstanding football in Roberto’s First season too, but we played some absolute dross too. The majority of Moyes tenure we played with grit and attitude and little else. So many away games where he went to draw 0-0 or avoid a drubbing. I always recall being sat in the Stadium of Light in Benfica on a night of heavy rainfall and lightening and then seeing the most turgid display of football I’ve witnessed for many many years. I swear we had four right-backs and nine defensive players that night and were totally dismantled by, to be fair, a quality Benfica side with the likes of Oscar Cardoza, Angel di Maria, Saviola, Luiz, Aimar etc. We had injuries but it summed up Moyes defeatist attitude in one foul night to me.
He gets categorised as a dinosaur because his best days were many seasons ago and he failed miserably at United, Bilbao and everywhere else he rocked up. What worked in 2004 won’t work in 2019.
 

ForeverBlue92 said:
My question to you is in Hindsight did Martinez deserve 3 seasons?

Did those 3 seasons of 'stability' really do us any good?

Atleast Martinez had an FA Cup to his name and gave us a great first season. Bobby brownshoes was a clown but he's Guardiola compared to this chump.

I would rather we bring in a new manager this season/in the summer and give next season a real go rather than be sat here in December come next year with the season over already and us sat in 12th. Whats the point wasting yet another season?

Will it take a WHU cornerflag type revolt at GP for the club to finally wake up and sort their crap out?
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Bring in another manager already is madness. New manager takes over and what if he loses 5 out of 7 games then everyone will be calling for another new manager? Madness.
 
banno said:
Wasn't Martinez the same with set pieces? He still got 3 seasons without a plan B. Allardyce was clueless and has never had a plan B.
All I am saying is time should be given to him. Never forget Kendall and Ferguson and Clough.

If Silva doesn't hit the ground running next season then he will be out the door soon enough.
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This is what I dont get, dont sack him now when we`ve got nothing to play for but lets give him 1 oe 2 months of next season and sack him then.

What do you think is more harmful? I just cant fathom this kind of thinking.....
 
zzr45 said:
McCarthy - would of offered something else in midfield apart from giving the ball away.
Lennon - in his peak far better than Walcott
Cleverley- same as McCarthy.
Deulofeu - why he was ever let go was a mystery. Currently tearing it up with Watford.
Barry - people jizz over Gueye when Barry was Gueye with the ability to pass.
Holgate - actually possesses pace. Would rather see him than Coleman on the right or in the middle replacing Keane.
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No wonder some people like Martinez lol.

McCarthy - come on he won’t get fit. Has finished about 3 or 4 years ago. 16 games in 3 seasons.
Lemon - he peaked when he’s at Spurs. So can you use Walcott’s peak to compare?
Cleverley - just crap.
Del - found his level now.
Barry - at his peak (City) yes but he is playing for West Brom now and time is catching him up. Gana and Barry are not the same type of player. Gana is ball winner Barry is an anchor.
Holgate - you know there’s a reason why he was loaned out. Just ain’t very good.
 

banno said:
Bring in another manager already is madness. New manager takes over and what if he loses 5 out of 7 games then everyone will be calling for another new manager? Madness.
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Simply put if the new manager is any good either a. You'll see seeds of positivity in the performances despite the defeats or b. We wouldn't lose 5 in 7 games in the first placr - how often do top managers go on that run?

At present we are seeing absolutely nothing to suggest there is room for improvement. On Point A. I raised above - Wolves went through a patch of about 1 win in 6 this season and Nuno said they need to go back to basics - since then they have kicked it up a notch - thats the sign of a good manager not our current fall into the abyss.
 
Stayed off here since last night, I was really fuming yesterday at the lack of heart and passion this team has.

I have left the ground early twice, once in Martinez's 3rd season and yesterday.

He’s going the same way as Martinez, it’s just damage limitation now.

He is completely passionless and it has obviously rubbed off on his playing staff.

Martinez in the other hand was completely delusional and kept telling us things which simply weren’t true.
 
I didn't want him in the first place, but chopping and changing of the manager has been a disaster for us because they all want their own players.

Having said that, it's the tactical stubbornness which is really getting to me. Opposition teams have worked out that if you get tight to our wide players then they always get the ball with their back to goal. That invariably leads to the breakdown of our attacks because they are only dangerous when getting in behind. He doesn't seem to have any remedy to this.
 
banno said:
Bring in another manager already is madness. New manager takes over and what if he loses 5 out of 7 games then everyone will be calling for another new manager? Madness.
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That’s why Koeman was sacked. Nothing based on his first season even he got 7th.
 
banno said:
That's your opinion which is fair enough.....not my opinion.
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Actually it is an objective fact - there was an analysis of it that showed he was the best market operator in the league, pound for pound. Of course you may think the analysis is flawed, but it seems reasonable. Also, past performance was not an indicator of future results in this instance!

“After analyzing the results of the models, it is clear that Moyes deserves all the plaudits he gets. Moyes was the head of the only club to best Sir Alex and Manchester United in getting the most value out of spending in the past five years. Now, he inherits the reigning the Premier League champions and the most popular club in the world – a scary thought.

“In each of the past five years, Moyes has torn to shreds any middling expectations of his club based on their modest spending. This success came in both quantity and quality.

“Moyes’ Everton teams are at the same time brothers to the bottom spenders and the top finishers, an incredible money-saving, points-earning, goals-scoring apparatus. The average Premier League club over the past five years spent around £26.8 million on transfers, £66.2 on wages, and garnered 52 points with a goal differential of zero. Everton’s average season over the past five years? £13.2 million spent on transfers, £53.7 million spent on wages, 60 points, a +13 goal differential, and an average finish of roughly 6th place.”

https://georgetownsportsanalysis.wo...d-manchester-united-form-a-scary-combination/
 

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