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2019/20 Marco Silva

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Judging by his comments before the game, he wants to live and die by the sword. He needs to be a little bit less stubborn and go with whatever gives us the best shot.
 
He's too cautious away from home. Bin this 451 lark and get your best team on the pitch and play 433, forwards play high midfield works hard and the defence is solid that's all Liverpool do they have clasiser players but their tactics aren't complicated. Just have a go we aren't getting results away doing what we are doing ao change the boring script. Also his subs are chronic why chuck on loads of strikers after we go behind? Why not make proactive subs to win the game?!!!??!!
 

I am willing to reserve judgement until 2020. However:
  • We have a massive hole slashed into us by Gueye leaving, who did the job of 2 players. His replacement had no pre-season with us and got injured straight away. Replacing Gueye with Schneiderlin is like swapping Champagne for Bucks Fizz
  • Centre half. How can we press high when we have 2 very slow centre halves. This sucks the confidence from everyone when we don't have the cover of Zouma's pace. I think Marco was led to believe we were getting Zouma right up until Luiz signed for Arsenal. Put that down to a Brands failure. Thankfully we didn't get saddled with Rojo on £150k a week on a 5 year deal! Centre Half with pace in january.
  • Striker. What the hell is it with Everton and strikers? We needed a striker as back-up to Lukaku the day he signed permanently. It used to be left-midfield, how have we been left in this position again? It isn't DCL's fault that he is absolute garbage and will never make it, he is living the dream... like the old golf pro at your local course getting a wildcard pick for the Ryder Cup. Yes, Kean is a fantastic signing, but he was never going to come straight in and blow this league away at 19. Either stick with Kean, play Tosun and play for his strengths, or even play Simms. Just never wanna see DCL in the team again. At 27/28 DCL will be playing at his peak... at Forest Green! He would suit those inoffensive, compassionate, its not-about-winning-its-about-taking-part vegans. Bin DCL, please. His career highlight we be getting the number 9 shirt for one season at Everton FC.
  • I remember Martinez changing our style at home to Man U and let them have the possession - the only game in 15 we didn't have the majority possession. We won 2-0. Then he played a curveball in the form of Lukaku on the right wing against Arsenal. Won 3-0. Since then, I cannot recall a team selection or change in tactics suited to the opposition that outwitted the other team. We are the most predictable team in the league by a country mile. Plan B and C please. If Tosun comes on, the whole team is abundantly aware of how we should play etc. Changes in style should be drilled into the team.
  • Iwobi, As decent as he seems to be, for the same money we could have got Lozano. Brands in April: "I would be interested in Lozano at £20m". How much would he have paid for Iwobi at the same time? £10m?
  • Sigurdsson. For all his critics, he is absolutely screwed by playing with DCL, he drags everyone down a level or 2 by his inability to play football. We should play 4-3-3 with Delph, Gomes and Davies with a fluid front 3 of Richarlison, Iwobi and Kean.
 

I do have a sinking feeling this will be Silvas last season if we show no progress - i.e not top 6, no cup or final stages of a cup run. The fans and board will deffo be swerving him if its more of the same. Brands is 100% more than likely to pick his man for next venture and tbh it is better than moshiri grabbing flavour of the month manager once more.

i hope we dont go down the manager roulette again but I think with Brands in place things will be different. Watch ....this...space......(again, rinse, repeat).
 
sharkey1001 said:
I am willing to reserve judgement until 2020. However:
  • We have a massive hole slashed into us by Gueye leaving, who did the job of 2 players. His replacement had no pre-season with us and got injured straight away. Replacing Gueye with Schneiderlin is like swapping Champagne for Bucks Fizz
  • Centre half. How can we press high when we have 2 very slow centre halves. This sucks the confidence from everyone when we don't have the cover of Zouma's pace. I think Marco was led to believe we were getting Zouma right up until Luiz signed for Arsenal. Put that down to a Brands failure. Thankfully we didn't get saddled with Rojo on £150k a week on a 5 year deal! Centre Half with pace in january.
  • Striker. What the hell is it with Everton and strikers? We needed a striker as back-up to Lukaku the day he signed permanently. It used to be left-midfield, how have we been left in this position again? It isn't DCL's fault that he is absolute garbage and will never make it, he is living the dream... like the old golf pro at your local course getting a wildcard pick for the Ryder Cup. Yes, Kean is a fantastic signing, but he was never going to come straight in and blow this league away at 19. Either stick with Kean, play Tosun and play for his strengths, or even play Simms. Just never wanna see DCL in the team again. At 27/28 DCL will be playing at his peak... at Forest Green! He would suit those inoffensive, compassionate, its not-about-winning-its-about-taking-part vegans. Bin DCL, please. His career highlight we be getting the number 9 shirt for one season at Everton FC.
  • I remember Martinez changing our style at home to Man U and let them have the possession - the only game in 15 we didn't have the majority possession. We won 2-0. Then he played a curveball in the form of Lukaku on the right wing against Arsenal. Won 3-0. Since then, I cannot recall a team selection or change in tactics suited to the opposition that outwitted the other team. We are the most predictable team in the league by a country mile. Plan B and C please. If Tosun comes on, the whole team is abundantly aware of how we should play etc. Changes in style should be drilled into the team.
  • Iwobi, As decent as he seems to be, for the same money we could have got Lozano. Brands in April: "I would be interested in Lozano at £20m". How much would he have paid for Iwobi at the same time? £10m?
  • Sigurdsson. For all his critics, he is absolutely screwed by playing with DCL, he drags everyone down a level or 2 by his inability to play football. We should play 4-3-3 with Delph, Gomes and Davies with a fluid front 3 of Richarlison, Iwobi and Kean.
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Don’t agree with all of it but there’s a lot of truth there. We’ve got a manager who wants to play a certain way but we haven’t got him the players he needs to do it well. The problems at centre half and striker aren’t really Silvas fault but he’s hamstrung by them.
 
Against the top 6 last season we gave them all a tough game, even the ones we lost. I think this due to fact all the top teams attack us and leave space which we then use to counter attack. I always saw silva as a counter attack manger and we have got the players for that. He has the problems against the lower teams where we have to attack,
so my opinion is play like we are the lesser team every game and allow them to come onto us with the the ball. We then can counter attack at speed into spaces created by the opposition. I think we would be well more efficient in front of goal that why. This is my opinion only like.
 
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That second one is an atrocious record to have. Is it one single thing responsible for that? Bad subs? Player attitude? Bad tactics (no plan B)? Or all of that and more? At this point anyone we're against knows they just have to score first and they'll get points, nearly guaranteed.
 

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