Silva is one of the best players in the Premiership. He has an ankle injury. I cannot believe that you are trying to analyse the positive and negative parts of his game. He deserves credit for playing through the injury barrier when he'd probably be better off just resting up and getting fully fit for the Euros
I think that is why it's very difficult for us to assess who can or can't do it to the required level, in a better functioning system. I've never seen the likes of Xavi & Iniesta as being tireless grafters & Thiago certainly isn't, yet they seem to have no problem defensively in the systems they use. I was absolutely terrified by the prospect of us signing Thiago & seeing him & Yaya with Silva, in games like Saturday. But if they are only doing little defensive runs of ten yards or so, for a few seconds, it becomes a completely different game & perhaps all 3 could do it. So I really have no idea which of our players can cope with Pep's ideas, some may disappoint & some may surprise us, but I think it's plain for anyone to see right now, that the current set of players, are struggling to perform in the systems the manager is using, when we play against anyone with a bit of energy.
So will he just carry on hoping it all works out, or do something different which the players can better cope with ?
Your second paragraph is partly why I get so defensive when seeing posts saying Silva will be surplus or not be able to play in a Pep team.Why should any player be immune from analysis of their strengths and weaknesses?
You can be damn sure Pep will be looking at both things for every player he inherits. And he certainly has people on his coaching team that believe that players can still improve in their 30's.
I'd like to think that Saturday's inept display all over the pitch would give him some food for thought, something needs to change to ensure 3 points this weekend.Assume you refer to Pellegrini. I don't see him changing his spots now but I keep hoping for him to go all pragmatic because he has shown he can do that.
Assume you refer to Pellegrini. I don't see him changing his spots now but I keep hoping for him to go all pragmatic because he has shown he can do that.
Good points and i agree he should do it but he has set himself out to play a certain way and is now in the shop window for his next job where he will be hired for his style of play so he won't change imoYeah.
I just wonder at what point he might think that we could win the title by a margin if we just go for results rather than attempting to be Brazil in every game. After all, it can hardly be the case that his job depends on us playing a certain style of football, seing as he's gone anyway.
He could line up with 5 central defenders & Joe Hart at centre forward & nobody can do anything to him. He has complete freedom to do whatever it takes, to win the title.
Good points and i agree he should do it but he has set himself out to play a certain way and is now in the shop window for his next job where he will be hired for his style of play so he won't change imo
Surely grinding out some results and genuinely challenging for the title would look better on his CV than what is happening at the moment?Good points and i agree he should do it but he has set himself out to play a certain way and is now in the shop window for his next job where he will be hired for his style of play so he won't change imo
Good points and i agree he should do it but he has set himself out to play a certain way and is now in the shop window for his next job where he will be hired for his style of play so he won't change imo
Your second paragraph is partly why I get so defensive when seeing posts saying Silva will be surplus or not be able to play in a Pep team.
Most players have scope for improvement and that includes Silva. I'm desperate to see if he can add a couple of strings to his bow under a new manager.