Why should Silva be first choice now?
Correct me if I am wrong, but at the time of Koeman's dismissal, the choices for replacement were very limited. We could not realistically attract any of the top continental names away from their respective CL playing teams midseason. Hard enough in the off season!
The only heads we could turn at the time were the mid table over-achievers like Silva. Watford were flying high (for them), and they suddenly found themselves with a flavor of the month boss.
Watford got greedy, Silva got distracted, time was passing too fast and we were getting that sinking feeling. Then, out of the dark foreboding mist, like an old barnacle covered ghost ship, came HMS Allardyce. We knew it would be a rough, scurvy riddled ride. The reputation of the pirate crew was known far and wide, but it looked like the only way out. And so our journey continued in the ships stinking brig, with many falling foul to sickness and starvation. Many more were just bored, and became as listless as the thick gravy ocean in which the ship floated.
Now, finally back in the safety of port (Midtablesville), we can rid ourselves of the rat infested wreck and look to boarding one of the many shiny new ships now moored at the dock.
Silva is there, of course, but no longer looking like the over-achieving cabin boy, and more like a drowned rat, having been kicked overboard for acts of mutiny.
So the question remains, do we give the lad a chance (very wet behind the ears, but packing lots of ambition), or do we raid the treasure chest and try and bag us someone with proven ability on the high seas of European footy?
