The Everton manager is coming under intense pressure.
Sam Allardyce believes that Everton fans will put even more pressure on the club’s hierarchy to fire Marco Silva if he doesn’t mastermind two wins over the coming weeks.
The Toffees snatched a last-gasp equaliser to hold Tottenham Hotspur to a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park on Sunday in a result that did little for either side.
For Everton, they sit 17th in the Premier League table, three points above the relegation zone.
There is a good chance for Silva’s side to climb up the table shortly, with a visit to 18th-placed Southampton this weekend, followed by a home test with second-from-bottom Norwich City after the international break.
And former Everton boss Allardyce, who had the reins at Goodison before Silva, says that the Toffees faithful will be calling for his head a lot more if they don’t pick up maximum points from those two games.
He told Alan Brazil’s show on talkSPORT [broadcast 05/11]: “If he doesn’t win against Southampton and Norwich, the fans will heap a whole load of pressure on the board. They will show their discontent if they are not seeing what they’ve paid to watch.”
These are dire times for Everton.
Even if Silva picks up two wins from two over the coming weeks, he is nowhere near out of the woods.
With the sort of money that the club has spent over the past 18 months, they should be challenging for the Champions League places, not scrapping for their top-flight status.
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