Marco Silva is the Everton head coach that Farhad Moshiri most regrets leaving. Silva was standing in the technical area in Goodison Park, and he was subjected to the most cruel chant: «You will be fired in the morning.» To make matters worse, it was sung by his own supporters.
Given this experience, the Fulham manager can count it a blessing that the touchline ban prevents him from taking a similar position when he returns to Merseyside on Saturday.
Despite this painful memory, there was little danger of Silva meeting the same hostile reception from Goodison Street. Supporters have long concluded that responsibility for a number of managerial errors should be directed higher up the hierarchy, and the four unsatisfactory years and four managers since Silva's dismissal are further evidence of fundamental problems that go beyond the dugout.
Now Silva's 15-month reign is remembered more with sympathy than condemnation, with many at the club lamenting what could have been if more luck and patience had been shown.
There can be no revisionism in Silva's last weeks at Everton in November 2019, when the team slipped into the bottom three after a ninth loss in the first 15 games of the season.
2 home loss to Norwich: 0 provoked fans to demand his dismissal. Somehow he held on for two more games, a last hard loss in the Merseyside derby making his position untenable.
But of the six layoffs that majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri has overseen during his tenure, Silva is tinged not so much with regret as with regret. any.
Marco Silva and his team celebrate the victory over West Ham, one of four wins before his sacking in December of the 2019/20 season. Photo: Jan Krueger/Getty Images. turn the tide of Everton at the start of this season, although at first, in typically clumsy fashion, he seemed to blame the fans for forcing him into action before hastily retreating.
“I was impatient. I was affected by the feelings of the fans and I reacted to them, and perhaps removed the managers too early,” said Moshiri.
“This is a criticism of [me], not the fans. I tell the fans that we all need to be a little more patient and measured. We must implement change in a more informed manner.”
Silva's resurgence at Fulham reinforces the idea that his downfall at Goodison was due to circumstance rather than managerial failure.
He worked at Everton during a period when there was a semblance of functionality for a short time. It was a time when director of football Marcel Brands, who moved to Everton with Silva in the same summer of 2018, began looking to streamline the squad, control salaries and focus on attracting younger players who could earn significant fees. if they realized their potential.
Silva inherited a bloated 38-man first team squad, a bunch of signings from Ronald Koeman and Sam Allardyce, and yet he led Everton to a commendable eighth place in his debut season. It seems like a dizzying height now.
Marcel Brands welcomes Marco Silva to Everton in 2018. He led the club to eighth place in his first season as manager. Photo: Everton via Getty Images. p>
Everton are a club that also has to sell players, so it is necessary to bring in young players to invest,” Brands said at the time.
“That's why we invested in young players last summer. Ding was 24, Yerry Mina was 23, Richarlison was 21. So we're looking at players in the 20-26 age group.»
Trouble began the following summer, when significant investments in Moise Keane and Jean-Philippe Gbamine backfired, the latter being injured shortly after signing. Silva lost to Paris Saint-Germain Idriss Gouille and Chelsea refused to convert Kurt Zouma's one-year loan into a transfer. The wheels came off quickly, Silva was not helped by some controversial Var decisions, including one in a critical loss to Brighton that prompted an apology in the Premier League.
He couldn't turn the tide and with his departure, Moshiri seemed , has completely lost faith in Brands' broader football strategy.
Tempted by the stardust, Moshiri replaced Silva with Carlo Ancelotti. Silva must have allowed himself a wry smile when the Italian subsequently spent a total of £70m on James Rodriguez, Allan and Abdoulaye Ducoure, who were 29, 29 and 27 at the time. Here are the young players with low salaries. To be fair, the young team needed more experience and Ancelotti initially oversaw a drastic improvement, but there's no doubt that Moshiri is still paying the price for the deviance.
Although Brands extended his contract under Ancelotti, his days were also numbered, especially when Rafael Benitez came to power, who was not going to give up control of football operations. The Dutchman might think that the beginning of the end for him was when Silva left.
What would have happened to Everton if the Silva-Brands partnership had continued? Few can predict with certainty that they would have escaped the torture of successive relegation bouts, but given the path they have been on, they certainly would not have been indicted by the Premier League for their spending. Moshiri would have saved himself at least another £30m in compensation for sacked managers.
With Brands the warden and Silva working professionally within the established limits, Everton found themselves on an inevitably bumpy road that required patience and patience. nerve in the most difficult times. Unfortunately for the Portuguese manager, history shows that when results get out of control, no Premier League manager can survive.
During a rule littered with mistakes, Moshiri was adamant. Silva was one of the brightest young coaches working in England. capable of making a struggling Premier League club above its weight.
There is a bittersweet irony that he made the right choice. Unfortunately for him and typical of the Moshiri era, Everton failed to take advantage of what should have been a long-term investment.
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