Paulo Fonseca

[GrandOldTeam]

Silva is a shoo-in for this job.

He should be/I hope so.

My biggest concern with Everton/Moshiri is short-termism - I think it's potentially crippling.

He was their man, "a bad run" with plenty of mitigating circumstances shouldn't be significant enough to change approach.

Sack Allardyce on his way out of the stadium on the last day of the season and bring the new man in - the man they actually wanted*


* Unless someone who wasn't previously available, suddenly is. Or whether Usmanov wants to bring Wenger with him. /legs it ducking and diving.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Fonseca feels very flavour of the month - Vitor Pereira/Brian Laudrup style - I get why he's the football hipsters choice but he's not the no brainer/major coup many would have you believe.

 

[davek]

He should be/I hope so.

My biggest concern with Everton/Moshiri is short-termism - I think it's potentially crippling.

He was their man, "a bad run" with plenty of mitigating circumstances shouldn't be significant enough to change approach.

Sack Allardyce on his way out of the stadium on the last day of the season and bring the new man in - the man they actually wanted*


* Unless someone who wasn't previously available, suddenly is. Or whether Usmanov wants to bring Wenger with him. /legs it ducking and diving.

If Silva is without a club in May/June (and the Benfica links looked like paper talk to me), then it'd be shocking if Moshiri didn't go back and scoop him up. If he doesn't (and as you say if no one better is quickly installed) then it'd affirm the view of FM as a man who is ad hoc in his decision making. And that would alarm me because it would almost certainly affect his decision making elsewhere at the club over not only appointments but also infrastructure decisions.

 

[davids]

Fonseca feels very flavour of the month - Vitor Pereira/Brian Laudrup style - I get why he's the football hipsters choice but he's not the no brainer/major coup many would have you believe.

Thing is, where we are in the Prem pecking order it's going to be a risky appointment whoever we get.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Thing is, where we are in the Prem pecking order it's going to be a risky appointment whoever we get.

Not sure mate - we're mid-table 7th-10th purgatory. Even after a season as grim as this - isn't that relatively risk free?

 

[Goat]

Fonseca feels very flavour of the month - Vitor Pereira/Brian Laudrup style - I get why he's the football hipsters choice but he's not the no brainer/major coup many would have you believe.

Everything Silva has done, Fonseca has done it better.

 

[mkrudden]

If Silva is without a club in May/June (and the Benfica links looked like paper talk to me), then it'd be shocking if Moshiri didn't go back and scoop him up. If he doesn't (and as you say if no one better is quickly installed) then it'd affirm the view of FM as a man who is ad hoc in his decision making. And that would alarm me because it would almost certainly affect his decision making elsewhere at the club over not only appointments but also infrastructure decisions.

Agreed.
Willing to pay £10m one minute yet not £0 the next?
I always thought that the Watford statement was pretty accurate. It was clear Watford - either the manager, the players or a collective - DID take their eye off the ball after the Everton approach. Silva refused to distance himself which transitioned Watford from an impressive early season side that was consistent in its play to a mish mash of uncertainty.
My only issue with him is that an approach destabilised him more than anything. What would happen here in similar circumstances?

 

[Goat]

If Silva is without a club in May/June (and the Benfica links looked like paper talk to me), then it'd be shocking if Moshiri didn't go back and scoop him up. If he doesn't (and as you say if no one better is quickly installed) then it'd affirm the view of FM as a man who is ad hoc in his decision making. And that would alarm me because it would almost certainly affect his decision making elsewhere at the club over not only appointments but also infrastructure decisions.

Silva had his chance, instead of pushing for the move he sat on his hands and made us look like gimps, that will be the reason we dont go back for him.

 

[sageyefc]

Potentially quite a few good managers going spare this summer, think I'd be disappointed with silva now tbh

 

[COYBL25]

If Silva is without a club in May/June (and the Benfica links looked like paper talk to me), then it'd be shocking if Moshiri didn't go back and scoop him up. If he doesn't (and as you say if no one better is quickly installed) then it'd affirm the view of FM as a man who is ad hoc in his decision making. And that would alarm me because it would almost certainly affect his decision making elsewhere at the club over not only appointments but also infrastructure decisions.

Silva is the logical choice when you look at it.:

Previously wanted the job.

He`s a free agent.

No compo to pay ( other than paying up the remainder of Allardyce`s contract )

He can start in immediately .

If he has already been tipped the nod, he`d have been watching our games and deciding which players need to go. ( lots )

He`d potentially have ready made replacements lined up.

In short, he`d hit the ground running.

However this is Everton !

 

[ijjysmith]

People wanting Silva do my head in.

I get why people think he’s highly likely but actually wanting him is insane to me.

 

[davids]

Not sure mate - we're mid-table 7th-10th purgatory. Even after a season as grim as this - isn't that relatively risk free?

But to attract the better candidates we need to be able to offer European competition and I've a feeling 10th is going to be a stretch.

 

[Kev The Rat]

Not sure mate - we're mid-table 7th-10th purgatory. Even after a season as grim as this - isn't that relatively risk free?

On paper perhaps - but we looked even more risk free after Moyes left and with hindsight the appointments since look to have been highly speculative punts, that have set us back years, Allardyce excepted.

 

[PhilM]

Silva is the logical choice when you look at it.:

Previously wanted the job.

He`s a free agent.

No compo to pay ( other than paying up the remainder of Allardyce`s contract )

He can start in immediately .

If he has already been tipped the nod, he`d have been watching our games and deciding which players need to go. ( lots )

He`d potentially have ready made replacements lined up.

In short, he`d hit the ground running.

However this is Everton !

If Silva is Moshiri's choice and Sam was thankfully on his way out the door, then would you not hope that his appointment was announced now?

It would set a clear example that we are looking to the future, and as you mention it would officially allow him to start planning for the future.

City acted in such a way with Pep, which at the time seemed slightly unfair on Pellegrini, however Allardyce doesn't deserve too much from us.

As you mention, knowing Everton we'll probably get rid of Sam at the end of the season yet still fail to get an appointment - look at post Koeman.

 

[riddick]

Silva is the logical choice when you look at it.:

Previously wanted the job.

He`s a free agent.

No compo to pay ( other than paying up the remainder of Allardyce`s contract )

He can start in immediately .

If he has already been tipped the nod, he`d have been watching our games and deciding which players need to go. ( lots )

He`d potentially have ready made replacements lined up.

In short, he`d hit the ground running.

However this is Everton !

Literally everything you said can be attributed to Fonseca as well.