Marco Silva

[orly]

All this "We will get another one if it does,nt work out" just commits us to repeating cycles of resets for the long term future of the club.

Every single club in the world replaces its manager if the manager fails, Crabs.

Have you tried breaking your decade-long cycle of negativity and getting-it-wrong?

 

[Blues Harp]

Let's be honest mate, we've never had a high profile manager. We've only had managers who've gone on to do great things.
Of course, things were different in the 60's 70's and 80's, the money came flowing in the 90's, and a lot of teams started going for high profile foreign managers in search of silverware, Alex Ferguson being the exception. We never caught on. By the time we did, we were at such a low standard, we just went for the best of the rest.
The gap between us and the top teams is staggering, but it just didn't happen overnight. It's been happening for 30 years.

You make some good points there.
This is why it's going to be some considerable time before we challenge for a cl place, unless the club gets its act together at all levels. There have been some signs that this has started with Brands' incoming and Elstone being binned etc. You are quite correct in staying that we missed the premiership boat good style and settled for consolidating prem status without breaking through further under Moyes and his insistence about bringing "knives to gunfights". Less said about the last 5 years the better, apart from 3/4 of Martinez's first season (even then he bottled getting a cl place). Any appointment now is a risk but I suppose I am now reliant on Brands, together with our new manager, to have a proper plan in place and a vision for the club which will enable us to recover some lost ground and try and win some silverware in the process. Sounds simple doesn't it ?

 

[jackyboy]

Pellegrini will be horrendous for them.

 

[Gladystweet]

You make some good points there.
This is why it's going to be some considerable time before we challenge for a cl place, unless the club gets its act together at all levels. There have been some signs that this has started with Brands' incoming and Elstone being binned etc. You are quite correct in staying that we missed the premiership boat good style and settled for consolidating prem status without breaking through further under Moyes and his insistence about bringing "knives to gunfights". Less said about the last 5 years the better, apart from 3/4 of Martinez's first season (even then he bottled getting a cl place). Any appointment now is a risk but I suppose I am now reliant on Brands, together with our new manager, to have a proper plan in place and a vision for the club which will enable us to recover some lost ground and try and win some silverware in the process. Sounds simple doesn't it ?

I think we all just want to see progress mate, actually challenging instead of existing. Like you rightly say, it's going to take time, and consolidating is no longer an option. Employing someone for 11 years though, and winning sod all should never happen again

Let's hope the right people are in place come the start of the season..in every position at the club.

 

[Efcjake]

The Echo are just building us up to knock us down again when Silva signs, watch them run a story about how we tried for other managers but they said no

It's obviously a line put out by the club through them to try and convince us this hasn't been tapped up since October.

It's a farce and I thought we were past this as a club but it looks like the new regime is still reading from the old playbook.

 

[Efcjake]

Up the Marco Silvas

 

[allen]

Pellegrini will be horrendous for them.

Got the Sven at City vibe for me.

 

[davids]

Pellegrini will be horrendous for them.

You'd hope so but sometimes the oddest marriages work out.

 

[davids]

I think he may struggle too. Even before he went to City with all their riches to buy who they wanted, the teams he did well with in Spain, had far more quality in them than West Ham does. He had players like Riquelme, Godin, Cazorla, Isco, Joaquin, Toulalan to name a few. He'll have a hell of a job on his hands at West Ham.

West Ham have a few nice players, but they have a terrible defence that needs ripping apart to begin with. There is a lot to do there.

Sounds like another club very close bye.

 

[BlueToff]

Ill be shocked if it isnt done this week... I see no rational explanation why it wouldn't be if am honest.

Same mate, but I don't get why people are fretting and now complaining we don't do things quickly when six days ago we announced a complete reshuffle of the management of the club from the board down in the space of 20 hours.

 

[BlueToff]

We have to go for someone other than Silva for manager if we want to go to that next step and start pushing for the top 6.

His last job makes me weary he is the guy,he had a shambles of a terrible run for months without winning,what if he has one of those here it would write off the season.

West ham have pulled off a coup getting Pellegrini,the guy is a top class manager,his teams from River Plate,Villareal,Real Madrid,Malaga and City played amazing attacking football.

I hope our board can be bold and pull a manager of some class out of the blue to make everyone notice.

Silva would be such a meh appointment.

Oh look, worrying about West Ham again.

Silva would be a far more progressive appointment than Pellegrini.

 

[BlueToff]

It's obviously a line put out by the club through them to try and convince us this hasn't been tapped up since October.

It's a farce and I thought we were past this as a club but it looks like the new regime is still reading from the old playbook.

Isn't it a good thing we've got our number one target?

Silva was sacked by a Watford board that change managers every nine months, on average.

The reason he was sacked is because he wanted to join Everton, and some players lost faith with him after that.

At the point of our interest finally ending, Silva had won 6 of his 12 League games in charge, with notable performances against Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - as well as against us, where they'd have got a point had Cleverley not hit the post.

Gracia went on a worse run than Silva did when he was sacked.

I definitely have my doubts. But I do think he's a very decent option.

 

[ultra]

Pellegrini was interviewed after Koeman left and did not impress Moshiri at all. Looking at his subsequent failure in China (where the club are now happy to see him leave), I believe Pellegrini was a bullet dodged.

 

[Efcjake]

What you on about?

Isn't it a good thing we've got our number one target?

Silva was sacked by a Watford board that change managers every nine months, on average.

The reason he was sacked is because he wanted to join Everton, and some players lost faith with him after that.

Gracia went on a worse run than Silva did when he was sacked.

I bet Moshiri has been quite pleased that his number one target has been taken care of for months.

There's a question remaining whether we bothered looking at other targets since October though. I'm not at all convinced we have and throwaway articles from Prentice in the Echo are not going to convince me while we're clearly engaged in some sort of compensation dispute for Silva.

There's no point pretending we are engaged in some comprehensive manager search led by Baxendale and Brands just to big up their importance in their new roles. Just more of the club using the Echo as a mouthpiece to try and add some legitimacy to the party line.

 

[Efcjake]

It's just sit and wait time now.

Nailed on that this dispute with Watford is the only hold up.

Next Week will be Silva media week and then we can bring in the Leandro Rodriguez's and the Anderson Da Silva's.