Marco Silva

[Neiler]

Those comments are massively encouraging, the tease.

All eyes on Watford fans and the reception he gets vs West Ham, be Monday at the earliest before any thing breaks at this stage.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

This seems much more palatable when you realize we’d basically be giving Watford the Cleverley money back.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

can somebody expand on the martinez mark II comments, it that lazy foreigner stereotyping? Or are there actual similarities? From what I've seen Silva seems an organised and far more pragmatic entity

No mate - suspect it's based on us appointing a manager fresh from a relegation.

 

[abelard]

If you flip this though and we do get him ( a big IF ) we can't cryarse like little girls when he gets off at the first sniff of a bigger club.

we obviously all will though

 

[Walken]

No mate - suspect it's based on us appointing a manager fresh from a relegation.

fair enough, I don't actually know all that much on Silva, people seem impressed though, and both watford and hull got better results when he was or is there than before he was there

 

[Connor]

can somebody expand on the martinez mark II comments, it that lazy foreigner stereotyping? Or are there actual similarities? From what I've seen Silva seems an organised and far more pragmatic entity

Nothing more than that.

 

[sc1878]

Just seen the interview. Pretty clear he wants the move and looks like it'll be down to him to force the hand of his board.

Be interesting to see their fans reaction to him tomorrow. I'd be fuming if a manager of ours gave a response like that when asked about managing another club. I'd imagine this will pick up some pace now given his response. Hopefully have him in by next weekend.

 

[Tubey]

Higher up the 'food chain' maybe, but that doesn't mean there's any kind of guarantee or entitlement. Watford can still say 'no', and by the sounds of it, if they do that enough, Everton may give up and look elsewhere.

I don't think there's any argument over who the 'bigger club' is, but the fact that £10m was allegedly rejected suggests Watford aren't going to accept just any offer cap-in-hand.

Sure, but 99 times out of 100 this ends one way and one way only. Especially with managers.

And who can blame him? Managers can see their careers ruined at the top level by one bad job somewhere - he'd be stupid not to progress up the 'food chain' whilst he can.

And that applies to us too. When Koeman came, we understood we took him off a smaller club in Southampton and if he did well we'd lose him to a bigger club like Barcelona. Silva will be no different, but unlike Watford fans we seem to understand that fact of life in modern football a bit more clearly.

 

[KaiserEFC]

Our Grey kit looks worse.

It’s meant to be grey is it? I still can’t work out quite which colour it’s trying to be

 

[Frang]

It’s meant to be grey is it? I still can’t work out quite which colour it’s trying to be

the grey kit with blue socks is utterly horrific.

same with the England kit with red socks.. horrifying

 

[Baines' left foot]

But they weren’t, were they?

Neither dead nor buried.

They had done a Lazarus.

With three games to go they were two points clear of the drop zone.....with Sunderland coming to town.

They proceeded to lose that game....then got walloped 4-0 at Palace the following week.

So having got out of the grave, they jumped straight back in again.

Four points from the eighteen available in the last six games

It is insanity to even think of paying Watford ten million quid to release him from his contract.

Especially as the way Watford are going at the moment he might be available for free before much longer

In my opinion (any many others) Hull were so far gone and he performed almost a miracle. If he hadn’t got Hull in to a position where they could have actually survived I bet your opinion of him would be higher.

You surely can’t use the result against us as a stick to beat him with.



In any case, who would you want in instead that would do a better job? Don’t say Ancelotti or Simeone.

 

[Croxteth]

Sure, but 99 times out of 100 this ends one way and one way only. Especially with managers.

And who can blame him? Managers can see their careers ruined at the top level by one bad job somewhere - he'd be stupid not to progress up the 'food chain' whilst he can.

And that applies to us too. When Koeman came, we understood we took him off a smaller club in Southampton and if he did well we'd lose him to a bigger club like Barcelona. Silva will be no different, but unlike Watford fans we seem to understand that fact of life in modern football a bit more clearly.

Perhaps, but I don't know; the way I've interpreted it, it sounds like he's not going to kick up too much of a stink if Watford say no, even if he is interested in hearing what Everton have to say. Back in the Summer, he was a man in demand by a number of clubs in the UK and abroad. Who knows, he may be acutely aware that Everton might not be the only club impressed by his positive start to the season.

 

[maccavennie]

I wonder why those Watford fans mention some kind of 7pm announcement from us??

 

[Frang]

I wonder why those Watford fans mention some kind of 7pm announcement from us??

??? tonight?

 

[maccavennie]

??? tonight?

Yeah a couple of them discussing some kind of announcement taking place and wondering what it could be??