The Silva Legacy

[C Block]

When he goes this summer, as he surely will now (Benfica) what is the legacy that he is leaving us behind?
Because in my mind this squad needs a total rebuild and we have no saleable assets, Iraola and Glasner are also moving on but both managers are leaving behind a squad that needs less work doing to it and saleable assets if their Club wants to sell to buy, we don't have that option,
We definitely need two full backs to replace Robinson and Tete, we need a centre half to replace the one Silva spent £29 million on,
In my mind we need an entire central midfield (some might say otherwise) and last but not least we need two forwards,
Can I see all that happening? Not a hope in hell,  which means that some of the players that should be gone will still be here next season (unfortunately)
In our entire proud history no manager has even come close to spending the same amount of money that Marco Silva has been allowed to spend,
And yet after all that money we are up **** creek without a paddle,
Some supporters will have fond memories of his time with us ,which is fair enough,  but I won't, in my mind he's leaving us in a vulnerable position and next season we will be looking over our shoulder.
Thanks Marco

[demeant0r]

The only two positions we regularly loaned/bought players for was the two wingers. But why? We're not even good at swinging in crosses, and we don't have a dominant striker like we did when we had Mitro.

[SimonDaviesEnjoyer]

His legacy will be very strong. Build a PL squad and stabilised the club.

But if we want to kick on we probably need some new ideas.

[ffcne]

When he goes this summer, as he surely will now (Benfica) what is the legacy that he is leaving us behind?
Because in my mind this squad needs a total rebuild and we have no saleable assets, Iraola and Glasner are also moving on but both managers are leaving behind a squad that needs less work doing to it and saleable assets if their Club wants to sell to buy, we don't have that option,
We definitely need two full backs to replace Robinson and Tete, we need a centre half to replace the one Silva spent £29 million on,
In my mind we need an entire central midfield (some might say otherwise) and last but not least we need two forwards,
Can I see all that happening? Not a hope in hell,  which means that some of the players that should be gone will still be here next season (unfortunately)
In our entire proud history no manager has even come close to spending the same amount of money that Marco Silva has been allowed to spend,
And yet after all that money we are up **** creek without a paddle,
Some supporters will have fond memories of his time with us ,which is fair enough,  but I won't, in my mind he's leaving us in a vulnerable position and next season we will be looking over our shoulder.
Thanks Marco

This squad would be in a relegation battle next season.
Too easy to play against .
Need some recruitmmet

[blingo]

Absolute garbage, won us promotion and four mid table finishes. What a disaster

[Skatzoffc]

Imo he has made us a very difficult team to play against but using a very particular style. It has seen us become  consistent, and to get stronger, season on season. But possibly he has taken us as far as he can with the budget we give him.

Unfortunately, it will be difficult for someone to come in and use this team as is. I'm not convinced when we bring in a new coach, with new ideas, that he will be able to mould the team to his vision, and make us competitive, given the budget from the bosses.

I believe his relationship with the current owners has been fractious at best. Maybe that is why they do not support him as much as he wants. Or in fact why he will leave.

So, I am worried what will happen when he does leave.

It depends who comes in to manage us obviously.

But someone who has the bravery to make us more attacking/dynamic, (like Frank for instance), may not be given the funds to make it work. In fact he may not come as the funds will not be given to suit his vision for the club.

So, even tho we have become a solid mid-table finishing PL team, I'm not convinced the owners want to push us on to European places. Much to the chagrin of genuine supporters like myself.

Difficult times ahead I believe.
COYW!

[The Little Dave]

So beating Chelsea doesn't qualify as a fond memory?

[Whitestone]

Silva has been fantastic for Fulham. Who knows where we'd be without him. Now I'm not suggesting it's been a good watch this season. We've become very predictable and the football a bit ponderous. Today was actually an improvement IMO but goals have become hard to come by, probably because we didn't sign the creative midfielder and striker this squad needed this time last year

[hongkongfulham]

His legacy will be very strong. Build a PL squad and stabilised the club.

But if we want to kick on we probably need some new ideas.

A think this is the thoughts of the majority now.

Well put.

[tonynorton]

Time for a change, he is a good manager but a terrible leader. No plan B. No going for it.
We had a real shot at European football this year, we don't deserve it.

[ElRay]

I think what Marco Silva had at Fulham was a group of players galvanised by the need to prove people wrong that they weren't "past it", that they did belong at Premier League level and that Fulham weren't just here to make up the numbers. That's why our best season under him at this level was the first year back.
 
I don't think it's entirely his fault, The club as a whole had clear goals. Get promoted, stay up, then solidify our position in the Premier League. He accomplished those goals and motivated a squad to do exactly that. But once those goals were achieved, I don't really think we established any new real objective beyond vague ideas of "progress".

We've lost some players we didn't properly replace, yes, but we've also signed others who were viewed as upgrades. The bigger issue, year on year, is that Silva has failed to generate the same hunger in the newer signings that existed in that original core group.

The further we've moved away from the squad we had in those first few seasons, the more the side has moved away from being passionate, intense, motivated and towards becoming slow, boring and constantly playing it safe. The quality might still be there in flashes, but the edge and identity that made Silva's Fulham so hard to play against feels like it's faded.

[Deeping_white]

It's going to be a legacy of stabilising us as a PL team but bottling perhaps a once in a generation situation where in consecutive seasons 2 of the so called big six have been absolutely dross and opened the door to an established mid table team like us to pip them to Europe, of which only we've failed to capitalise.

Compared to Forest and Bournemouth who came up with us, Bournemouth have been roughly on par with us but by the looks of it have not bottled Europe this season and rallied around a manager who gave clarity about his future even when he said he was leaving. Even Forest who've been absolute dross for 3.5 seasons in the PL have made it to a European SF, and then a similar sized club to us in Palace who've also got a publicly leaving manager have won trophies and stand on the cusp of winning the trophy we'd kill to be in the running for.

Yes there's questions over how quickly we source new players for Silva, but the football this season has been absolute dire for the most part, we don't play with any sort of intensity and that's a damning indictment on the manager who has had full reign to build this team in his image.

Failing to score in 7/9 and having some honking losses should be grounds for any manager to be in the firing line, but we now get Parker-esque performances and quotes in interviews which are quickly undoing 4 years of truly superb progress and management