What do you think ? We did play some attractive stuff under Silva. Probably the 1st leg of the League Cup Semi Final at Old Trafford where we should have come away with at least a draw, the subsequent second leg and the home win v Liverpool and the defeat at WHU where we were robbed were some of the best stuff I've seen from a City side since Steve Bruce and Phil Brown. But the facts are, despite all the players and backroom staff he wanted he still couldn't keep us up from a relatively decent position with three games to go. It should have been a breeze but he buckled with his team selections and tactics when it mattered most. Dropping Huddleson for that Sunderland game was unforgivable.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...va-making-better-player-whilst-Hull-City.html Silva was the making of Robertson - also responsible for raising profile of Maguire and Clucas - how we managed to get £16 million for Clucas only God knows
With the most expensive front three in our history! 50 million quids worth of talent And the short arsed little **** didn’t know how to defend a corner ffs
I think when he left city his stock was relatively high, he may have been offered a new deal but didn’t we start the next season with 9 players? He obviously knew what was coming so you can’t blame him for doing one.
It wasn’t a breeze though was it, Silva did an amazing job to get us off the bottom and close to a position of safety. He didn’t instruct the players to lose the last 3 games, they simply ran out of adrenalin and luck. Mike Phelan was still manager for the first leg of the semi final at Old Trafford, and the loss at West Ham when we hit the woodwork three times. I think Phelan did a lot better than some give him credit for, given the ****show he inherited and the age it took to actually appoint him to the job.
Phelan 19 games - 13 points - Silva 19 games - 21 points - we wouldn't have gone down if Ehab hadn't ****ed about at the beginning of the season - Silva's average points return makes him our most successful Premier League Manager - i thought he managed to get us playing some good football even though he had no time to get them to play together - he brought in Niasse, Ellabdellaoui, Marcovic, ,Ranocchia, N'Diaye, Henriksen, Evandro, and Grosicki and hit the ground running but just missed out at the end of the season
Livermore left just after Silva arrived in the January transfer window - another one ****ed off by the constant Ehab ****wittery
Phelan was sacked after the WBA defeat at New year . Silva was our manager for both Man u semi final games.
The **** show at the start of the season and the deleted squad wasn't all of the owners making but it is a good excuse if you are looking to blame someone. Not many on here remember the chairman's programme notes for the first home game v Leicester. They thought the sale had gone through. It didn't and fell through at the very last minute because of the PL fit and proper persons ruling. The club had been interviewing for a new managers all summer after Bruce threw the towel in. Chris Coleman kept us waiting for a decision until the very last minute too. Even Zola was approached. Not that it matters now because none of it happened. Phelan made a fist of it in trying circumstances and it seems to have put him off management for ever, but even on the back of all that Silva should have kept us up with the squad he and backroom staff he had. He didn't. It's history, move on.
Another selective memory post. The club stood by Livermore after he was tested positive for cocaine and during the time when his family suffered a tragedy. Hardly ****ed off by constant Ehab ****wittery in my book.
correct - thanks - i know we signed him after Silva started but it was a previous loan made permanent
