It is, in my opinion, a bit ‘pie in the sky’ to expect Silva to bring in Tony Bellew in some assistant capacity.
If the Big Dunc, Tony, and Capt Jags ‘dream team’ appointment has any chance of flying, I think it’ll be stand-alone from any foreigner getting the job. And before anyone gets the ‘ump, I am not referencing any Brexit gumph with that assertion: merely opining that, since any new manager usually comes with his own ‘team’ of assistants, he or she might be loath to work with people he or she is unfamiliar with. However, as we have seen with Big Dunc, it has been a condition of any appointment, that Big Dunc be on the coaching team. Perhaps Blue Bill will insist on a similar contractual condition for Tony and Capt Jags. With Usmanov coming on board, and his likely impact on the work of EITC, perhaps Bill sees this as a way of ‘fireproofing’ the future.