2019/20 Marco Silva

[AndyC]

I don’t think Silva is as close to being dismissed as some are hoping.
But if the worst does come to the worst, the only realistic option is to appoint Unsworth until the end of the season.
It is far more preferable to appoint a permanent manager in the close season when you can select a candidate of your choice rather than making do with simply the best available or even the least worst option.
That said , I still reckon Silva will still be our manager next season.

Not a chance Silva will be here next season imo, he's on borrowed time now.
But while there's no ready made replacement waiting in the wings and it'll cost another fair chunk of money to dismiss him and his coaching staff, he's likely to be here at least another couple of weeks.
Can't imagine Brands wants to install a temporary/interim manager, a DoF would surely want to make just one appointment and for that to be the right one.

 

[Kenshin]

I don’t think Silva is as close to being dismissed as some are hoping.
But if the worst does come to the worst, the only realistic option is to appoint Unsworth until the end of the season.
It is far more preferable to appoint a permanent manager in the close season when you can select a candidate of your choice rather than making do with simply the best available or even the least worst option.
That said , I still reckon Silva will still be our manager next season.

And that is the problem the club have. No passion anymore. Watford sacked Silva after a bad run of only 10 games. Liverpool sacked Rodgers in less when it was clear they weren't progressing.

We are keeping with the backing mentality and certainly don't think he would have been sacked if we lost yesterday. We are continuing to back a failing manager every week even when things aren't improving leading us to the point of no return.

We could give him until the end of the season sure, means all the ambition shown signing players has gone to waste. You really think the likes of digne are going to stick around for another season of this?

A new manager by my count has another 27 games to win and get somewhere. So another 78 points up for grabs , including 2 cups. The longer we make that available point total lower, the less ambition we show. Unless we are getting results but there is no sign of it.

At what point is the no return stage for Silva? At what point is no return for us staying up realistically?

For all the money spent and invested, we should be embarrassed to be where we are. Yet we accept it, we accept the var , we accept the results and hope to change it next week. And maybe we will, maybe we win next week, draw against Newcastle, lose against Norwich. The poor form continues for the joy of a single win, with a run of teams that will beat us to come.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

I don’t think Silva is as close to being dismissed as some are hoping.
But if the worst does come to the worst, the only realistic option is to appoint Unsworth until the end of the season.
It is far more preferable to appoint a permanent manager in the close season when you can select a candidate of your choice rather than making do with simply the best available or even the least worst option.
That said , I still reckon Silva will still be our manager next season.

I really, really want you to be wrong...

 

[technojoe]

Be typical of our board to appoint a new manager with this opening run;

Liverpool (A), Chelsea (H), Man Utd (A), Leicester (H), Arsenal (A)

unless we get a high caliber manager in. Silva comments and not coming out fighting last night say it all for me, he is a lost cause. get rid.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

For all the money spent and invested, we should be embarrassed to be where we are. Yet we accept it, we accept the var , we accept the results and hope to change it next week. And maybe we will, maybe we win next week, draw against Newcastle, lose against Norwich. The poor form continues for the joy of a single win, with a run of teams that will beat us to come.

What am I, as a supporter, supposed to do? Write letters in green ink? Get really angry on the internet? Burn down Stockley Park?

"Accepting the results and hope it changes next week" is kind of what being a football fan is.

 

[JLW]

If the idiots had any clue about football their would have been looking for a replacement weeks ago but that looks like it didn't happen.

I would like to think it is happening but we can’t stay on this merry go round of managers

 

[orly]

To be honest, if he doesn't win the Southampton game and still isn't sacked, they must have decided to give him the season,

His away form, let alone when conceding the first goal, puts him almost on Unsworth levels of bad,

 

[chazzle_dazzle]

Don't know how he's survived when Koeman was sacked after playing much better opposition.

Its getting embarrassing now, genuinely struggling to see any way he has progressed us as a team....? we've been doing the same boring side to side passing and cb playing out for Bobby.

Swerve.....

 

[JLW]

To be honest, if he doesn't win the Southampton game and still isn't sacked, they must have decided to give him the season,

His away form, let alone when conceding the first goal, puts him almost on Unsworth levels of bad,

The problem is like many others have said he seems to always have this massive slum of form. We could win/should win the next two games but you just know the next poor run is only a couple of games away.

As I’ve said he’s on borrowed time and I don’t think we’ll get rid until we have our next manager waiting to come straight in.

 

[chippy1722]

Be typical of our board to appoint a new manager with this opening run;

Liverpool (A), Chelsea (H), Man Utd (A), Leicester (H), Arsenal (A)

That’s why it should have been done last International, give them time to see the squad before this run.
He will probably grab a couple of points from them and then lose the easy games afterwards.

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

It is very worrying looking at those games, I have thought all along and still think that any continued reticence on the boards part is due to concern about who they will/won't be able to attract as a replacement, not sacking Silva as such.

Availability will be a big issue, but we absolutely need experience and nous in the dug-out now. Sadly, we are almost right back at the point before Allardyce came in. Not that I want a repeat of that, but that's the measure of the mess we are in.

Benitez seems the best appointment we could make to fit the circumstances. I can't think of anyone else.

We beat them last season and can do so again.

 

[Kenshin]

What am I, as a supporter, supposed to do? Write letters in green ink? Get really angry on the internet? Burn down Stockley Park?

"Accepting the results and hope it changes next week" is kind of what being a football fan is.

No it isn't.

That is why fans have voices. You know , the fans that protest things about their club. Get their voices heard collectively online.

We sit on our arse and hope our boos at the ground are going to change everything about us. Always been the case, literally took away fans not going to sunderland to get rid of Martinez. That's how we have a voice. Online campaigns , protesting at games.

We do nothing and this is what we get, silence from the club and an air of not arsed. We have lost 6 of our 11 games but noone is arsed really in real life. We are 17th but none of us are going to protest that at the next home game. We aren't filling phone ins with are disatisfaction.

And my original post was about everything, the players, the manager, the board. Not just the fans. But we are as guilty as the rest

 

[Lelouch]

We haven't come from behind to beat a team once, How can the board think this is the man for the future?

 

[Winslow89]

The problems are rife. Silva's lack of adjustment after Spurs figuring out that left side and bringing off Walcott instead of Iwobi are two of the latest examples of his standard. If we lose to Southampton he's got to go. We're in a worse position than we were when big Sam took over aren't we?

There just doesn't seem to be much worrying going on from fans at the moment - but we're very much relegation quality. Injuries are compounding how bad our form is.

Rafael would be my replacement, post-Silva. I think giving Marco until the end of the season is just too dangerous post end of December, depending on if we head into the New Year with more than 25 points.

 

[maccavennie]

Be typical of our board to appoint a new manager with this opening run;

Liverpool (A), Chelsea (H), Man Utd (A), Leicester (H), Arsenal (A)

Looking at that run..... I wouldn't want to be a new manager coming into that because you'll be on the back foot immediately.

If we get a new manager, they are. Going to get one chance to get a new managers "bounce" which will be the home game against Norwich