A nice angle in Chris Bascombe’s report from Goodison Park as the Daily Telegraph reporter tips Marco Silva as a contender for manager of the year following Fulham’s progression to the League Cup semi-finals.
“Watch out Unai Emery. Marco Silva is rapidly emerging as your main challenger for manager of 2023. The Emery fanclub will offer a compelling case otherwise, but has any coach excelled more than Fulham’s over the last 12 months? After promotion last year, Silva preserved Fulham’s top-flight status without a reference to a survival fight – a stark contrast to all the others recently elevated from the Championship. Now, on the back of several free-scoring performances, Silva has led the club to their first League Cup semi-final. All this despite losing his main striker Aleksandar Mitrovic.”
No chance. I mean I agree with Chloe and he should be up there but the powers that be won’t give that to a ‘small club’. I mean Ten Hag won manager of the month last month. A squad worth a billion that needed an injury time error to beat us, a narrow win over Luton was it? And they beat Everton. I mean that makes you manager of the month with a billion pound squad? Hillarious.