A disagreement developed between Everton managers past and present last week, Sam Allardyce and Marco Silva.
It is fair to say Marco Silva had no desire to take any advice from Sam Allardyce on board.
The Everton head coach has come under criticism from some quarters of late after a rather disastrous run of form which has seen the Toffees win just one of their last eight Premier League games; a period in which they have lost at home to Leicester and Brighton while conceding six against Tottenham at Goodison Park too.
Speaking on talkSPORT last week, Silva’s predecessor Allardyce suggested that Silva is paying the price for his perhaps naive commitment to attacking football – prompting a fiery response from the former Watford and Hull boss.
“Ok, maybe if it is David Moyes maybe I would listen because he did something really important at this club. But in this case (Allardyce’s opinion is) not important at all,” Silva said in quotes reported by the Liverpool Echo.
In fairness to ‘Big Sam’, he clearly had no interest in turning this disagreement into a saga.
Returning to talkSPORT on Monday (7 January, 9:00am), the 63-year-old has offered an insight into the difficulties Silva is facing, and has made a promising prediction on where Everton will finish this season.
“They should be finishing eighth, seventh this season. There’s been a lot of money spent on the team, you can say its a good thing but it’s a disruption to the fluidity and the continuity of the club itself.
“Constantly changing your staff and players means its difficult as a manager to get the understanding between the players
“In the last league game, there was only four games playing from when I was there.”
Everton have certainly improved from a stylistic point of view under Silva new recruits like Lucas Digne, Andre Gomes, Bernard and Richarlison turning the Toffees into an exciting attacking team.
But there is clearly a long way to go yet and the Merseyside club should only get better in the coming months.
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