CielosGrises
Player Valuation: £20m
The thing is I think the fans and club are too complacent at the moment because we finished 8th last season so its almost a "well we finished 8th playing gash so we'll easily finish 7th this season". Alladyce was garbage for us and his performances a shambles but statistically he did have us top 6 form. If Silva cant at the minimum replicate that then we may well decline especially with West Ham and Southampton under new management and making signings and throw in Leicester sorting out their defence and Wolves who may be a suprise package.
I like Silva and hope he gets a fair crack however he's been set up to fail so far being expected to at the minimum finish 7th/8th with this current crop of players whilst other clubs strengthen.
I dont think anyone is saying we dont need a squad cull but surely this must be complimented by 3-4 good additions to the starting 11.
9th August we have to buy players
31st August we have to flog players abroad
Rooney and Mori are the only two to go so hardly a cull at present anyway but we have more time to sell than we have to buy so we need to start focusing as much on the former as the latter imo.
Yeah, at the moment all we are giving Silva is a harder job than Allardyce. Rooney was our top scorer and left. Baines, Jag and Williams a bit older. One less back-up keeper.
It depends on incomings the extent to which Silva can match that 8th finish. If there aren't any then he'll do a good job to get us there again. If he struggles then we'll an Allardyce-like back in by next year.