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Marco Silva

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orly said:
Time to go back to bed
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I want Silva - would be more than happy with him.

But... hear me out.

Dyche gets a lot of undue stick for what he 'isn't', IMO.

He isn't a manager who bases his entire managerial career on developing free-flowing football sides that can score 4-5 goals per-game.

What he is, is organised. Something that we are lacking massively, and until that organisation improves, we aren't going anywhere. We're a mess at the back and that isn't just because of the players. There's no leadership or organisation from the bench either. It needs sorting. I'd trust Dyche with that over Silva.
 
It's a very fair point, why the Silva compensation fund cannot be used to at least try to entice the likes of Tuchel.

We will never know, but I don't expect creativity or ingenuity from this board.

Silva will have to be done in the couple of days really, if its happening at all.
 
andy ranbeer said:
Ever consider that Marco is perfectly happy at Watfud, and his apparent reluctance to come out and say it is a conspiracy to keep you managerless for another few weeks? Both for tactical purposes (1 more team in the relegation mix) and as revenge for your arrogance?
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Even if Silva absolutely loves it at Watford, he would be crazy to do anything like this. The average lifespan of a Watford manager is around 12 months, so to deliberately antagonise a potential future employer in this way would be madness.

The idea that Silva is somehow conspiring against another club because he loves Watford so much lol
 

matty1878 said:
What do you want them to do give it to unsworth? - the money is irrelevant until we get it right.
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Mate to be honest I was never in favour of sacking Koeman. Now I don't understand what the club wants. A week ago they wanted Allardyce till the end of the season which would have entailed physical, aggressive football with focus on clean sheets mainly. It seems like they are clueless and want to spend or rather waste as much money as possible hoping it will click for us. While we do that, the team looks without any direction.

In the last 4 years we have had following footballing philosophies:

Moyes: Cautious, defensive and pragmatic (4-5-1)
Martinez: Open, expansive and weak defensively (4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3)
Koeman (1st season): Blunt, high pressing, improved defence (3-5-2)
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Silva: Forward thinking with movement.


All different managers with varying philosophies. Hence I just want some clarity what the club wants and how much patience they will now have. Otherwise I am 100% sure our fans will label Silva as the Portuguese Martinez the moment things go south.
 
Kenshin said:
Part of me hopes west Brom hire Silva just to make the board look foolish again tbh

Be interesting to see how quickly west Brom hire a manager compared to our clown college of a board
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Yeah mate as he'd love to go there and Watford would do just roll over for WBA like :dodgy:
 
Stuartisitc1878 said:
my uneducated guess is he can only buy him self out if it's written in his contract that he can do so. He could try to resign but Watford are well within their rights to refuse that. Make no mistake about it Watford hold all the cards with this one.
I think it has to happen, like Siggurdson in the summer it's clear he wants to at least talk to us and once it gets to this point it's difficult for either us or Watford to turn back it's just about finding that magic number Watford will accept. Whatever happens now Watford come out of this looking far better than we do.
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The fact that Watford have said that there is no "magic number" makes me feel like we may see Kenwright kneeling on the floor in Gino Pozzo's office barking like a dog before a deal is struck.
 

faddy the blue said:
Exactly my thoughts. And we have a squad that was assembled for 200 M past year or so and we cannot just bin half of those players for loses.

What does our board want exactly? What has Silva done so far that makes them feel he can get us competing among top 6, sort out the defence and add stability to the club?
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Our defence cripples us and there isn't much a manager can do right now to improve it. Jags and Williams are well past it and Baines sadly isn't far off. Kenny has been chucked into the deep end and is doing his best but he's a kid and will make mistakes. We can't push forward and attack because we are just too vulnerable and slow at the back which is why we sit so deep forcing our midfielders to drop back and help leaving any attacking players isolated.

Silva could potentially take a RS approach and just accept our defence is turd so whether we sit back and defend or go all guns on the attack we are going to concede anyway so screw it lets try and outscore the opposition? The sad reality is unless we address key areas in January – defence and attack we are going to seriously struggle regardless of who the manager is.
 
faddy the blue said:
Mate to be honest I was never in favour of sacking Koeman. Now I don't understand what the club wants. A week ago they wanted Allardyce till the end of the season which would have entailed physical, aggressive football with focus on clean sheets mainly. It seems like they are clueless and want to spend or rather waste as much money as possible hoping it will click for us. While we do that, the team looks without any direction.

In the last 4 years we have had following footballing philosophies:

Moyes: Cautious, defensive and pragmatic (4-5-1)
Martinez: Open, expansive and weak defensively (4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3)
Koeman (1st season): Blunt, high pressing, improved defence (3-5-2)
.
.
.
Silva: Forward thinking with movement.


All different managers with varying philosophies. Hence I just want some clarity what the club wants and how much patience they will now have. Otherwise I am 100% sure our fans will label Silva as the Portuguese Martinez the moment things go south.
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All them formations fine if you have a squad to perform them RK has damaged our team and maybe Walsh by spending big money by selling our striker and not replacing him - keeping over the hill defenders, having 4 no 10s if Ross returns!
Can Silva polish a turd? -why the big wait by any manager to join us they look at our squad!
 
faddy the blue said:
Mate to be honest I was never in favour of sacking Koeman. Now I don't understand what the club wants. A week ago they wanted Allardyce till the end of the season which would have entailed physical, aggressive football with focus on clean sheets mainly. It seems like they are clueless and want to spend or rather waste as much money as possible hoping it will click for us. While we do that, the team looks without any direction.

In the last 4 years we have had following footballing philosophies:

Moyes: Cautious, defensive and pragmatic (4-5-1)
Martinez: Open, expansive and weak defensively (4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3)
Koeman (1st season): Blunt, high pressing, improved defence (3-5-2)
.
.
.
Silva: Forward thinking with movement.


All different managers with varying philosophies. Hence I just want some clarity what the club wants and how much patience they will now have. Otherwise I am 100% sure our fans will label Silva as the Portuguese Martinez the moment things go south.
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That is very generous to Koeman.
 

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