Marco Silva

[B17BLG]

Got promoted with Estoril and took them into Europa
Won a trophy with sporting
Won the league with olympiakos, breaking records
Took over a truly abysmal team in Hull and turned Niasse into a player
Joined Watford and turned Cleverley into a 10

His defensive structure is supposedly similar to Simeones

Bit different to Martinez...

It will take more than Google and Wikipedia to convince me I'm afraid!

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Hes going to be top top top class for us....

If he comes he'll have my full support, but he'll have to convince me

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Be good to have him in charge for Thursday but I doubt it

 

[Blues Harp]

No, not that long.

Of course it helps when you haven't got a handful of players throwing in the towel every week and tanking games.

Blame the players again instead of the management and board ...ok lad

 

[matty1878]

Sorry but we don't have time to mess around....he needs to hit the ground running from the off...drubbing from the RS acceptable? Er sorry no

We're all use to the drubbing from the RS

 

[TippEverton]

Dont think its down to compo to Watford anymore. They have made it clear they wont play ball. Fair enough. It will need the manager to resign imo, which, whilst fine for us in the short term, kind of sets a precedent if he does ok here.

I honestly couldn't give one toss if that were to happen.

Wasn't there fans worried at one stage that Martinez would be plucked away, and Koeman was touted with the likes of Arsenal and Barcelona before he'd even managed a game for us.

Both sacked, and, ultimately, both failures as manager of Everton.

If someone comes along and takes Silva from us then I'd guess his time with us will have been a success and that can only be good, and it most likely mean he'd be leaving us in a decent position and an attractive proposition for a replacement.

 

[summerisle]

Big Brother would be proud.

 

[Connor]

 

[GwladysBlue]

Whatever we do, don’t put a giant mural up of him at the side of the Main Stand.

 

[spudmuncher]

Silva.

Too much work gone into this now. Watford's statements are not statements of strength, they're the opposite. If they wanted this over they'd just blow the whistle on Everton and report them for tapping up. You saw what happened with Liverpool over VVD in the summer. It ends matters very quickly. But Watford dont want that. They want about £15M compo.

IMO.

We haven't tapped him up tho... we've approached the owners which is the entirely legal way of doing it

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Lets all learn from the love in we first had with Koeman. Acting like he is gonna do great here is premature. Thought you'd have learnt.

 

[Old Blue 2]

Big Brother would be proud.

That smacks of him wanting away...

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Whatever we do, don’t put a giant mural up of him at the side of the Main Stand.

Thats the clubs mentality. A good first season under Martinez and we acted like United did when they had 26 years with Ferguson.

 

[Chris O'Connor]

On his aftermatch comments..

I read it that he was loathe to commit himself to anything immediately after the match.

He was purposely non-commital for a reason, I would guess he doesn't want to close down any avenues on the high of three points after three losses.

He was well advised to say it'll be a normal Monday tomorrow as anything less commits him to a course he may not follow.

If he were to force the issue by resigning he would need plenty of assurances about not being left high and dry, complicated finances including any action Watford might take or report plus any probable damage to his own reputation if it all fell through before any appointment even if virtually immediate.

If he is intent on staying and not forcing the issue then there is no point saying so straight after the game unless that is an immovable position and a course he will definitely pursue.

By not indicating either way, it does leave the option of resignation but also of not taking that risk if he decides it would be too harmful to do so.

It has only served to intensify the speculation and has kept the question very open.

We can't wait and should not do so, if he resigns we can act but it shouldn't stop us approaching Dyche or someone else.

 

[Philw]

This is the problem with football now. When an average side exceeds they are at risk of losing their manager. This is why these average clubs will always be where they're at. As soon as they do well they lose their key influences.

Tbh, I actually would rather he stay for this reason. There's enough money in the Prem for smaller teams to stand up to bigger ones unless the player/manager's head 'gets turned'. I'd like to think that any manager we'd be interested in wouldn't want to jump ship that quickly...

Silva.

Too much work gone into this now. Watford's statements are not statements of strength, they're the opposite. If they wanted this over they'd just blow the whistle on Everton and report them for tapping up. You saw what happened with Liverpool over VVD in the summer. It ends matters very quickly. But Watford dont want that. They want about £15M compo.

IMO.

We haven't tapped him up tho... we've approached the owners which is the entirely legal way of doing it

This ^^