In tonight’s Evening Standard, Dom Smith reflects on the fact that Marco Silva passed 900 days in charge of Fulham on Monday. Part of Silva’s rationale for taking the Craven Cottage job was his burning desire to prove his English critics wrong following his sacking by Everton – and the Whites have reaped the reward of giving the Portuguese coach time to implement his easy-on-the-eye footballing philosophy.
An ambitious manager, Silva’s nomadic career has hardly seen him put down routes but the prospect of building a legacy at Fulham encouraged him to sign a new contract, even after a chaotic summer. It isn’t controversial to laud what he has already achieved by the River Thames, but he is determined to drive London’s oldest football professional club forward – and that means making more history. Beating his former employers to reach Fulham’s first ever League Cup semi-final tonight would be another impressive step forward.
In this world of instant everything, it is good to see that Marco has been given time and a degree of support by our beloved club.
There will be dips, as time goes by, but that happens in football. If our hierarchy understands that now then there is hope for a stable future.
Now let’s go chew a few toffees!
The clubs that currently are on solid ground are the ones that gave time and support to their managers. I m thinking about Liverpool, West Ham or Brentford. The same can be said about Fulham. We supporters that have fresh in our memories the abysmal showings under Parker or even the affable Ranieri, must thank the Gods for our main man. Under Silva there is not one match in which we do not have even a tiny belief of getting a result. That is truly something.
Marco’s been a success at FFC from day one so it’s hardly surprising that the owners have “kept faith” in him. Most other clubs that aren’t Birmingham do the same. After a winless run of about 8 games owners tend to have much less faith and appoint as a replacement, usually, someone sacked a few months ago.
I would like to think that the reason for his contract extension has something to do with him taking some control away from the idiot boy TK in terms of recruitment. Why else would he sign up again if it was going to be more of the same of Khan jnr spending more time with WWF than focusing on us,
COYW