I think Silva would have been fine, there were others that might have been better and plenty still out there that would worry me (including Monk). I however am hardly qualified to second guess Parish's decisions, and neither are you. What evidence do you have that Parish rated Silva and failed to sign him because he couldn't be bothered? None whatsoever, unless you have some sort of tele-ESP powers you haven't told us about.

I'd like to see how you get on doing his job.

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This post has been merged from a topic called 'is wenger an option?' by Guntrisoft

You need to stop smoking that stuff

You don't interview people you know you don't want. If he knew he didn't want him, why would he interview him? Silva's record in the prem included a good-sized bottle job when the chips were down, and if he decided he didn't want to see him based on that (or based on something else he already knew) then that's his judgement to make.

The fact that you think his record in the premiership made him a candidate, or indeed that I thought that (and I did), is neither here nor there.

As far as I know Monk hasn't been appointed or indeed interviewed, but again whether we think he's a candidate isn't relevant. FWIW I would think that if Silva isn't a candidate then a fortiori Monk wouldn't be either, but so what?

And you really have no business intimating that Parish's "laziness" is the issue here.

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This is where we go round in circles because how do you know you don't want a clearly talented man before you've interviewed him? That starts to ask other questions.

The bottling it stuff is just BS to anyone with a clear head to look at his situation but instead some are looking at it in the old school guts and bluster of English football. Some are conveniently forgetting the shyte situation he had because it doesn't suit us/Parish/us missing out on him or whatever else. That means somebody's judgement or availability meant we left it alone. Maybe Mark Bright couldn't cancel his holiday. Maybe a DOF is more overdue than it ever was rather than an extension.

COYP

The only reason for not considering Silva that would bother me is the one that says he "wasn't English". I've mentioned a couple of others at various points but we don't know what went on or why the parties acted as they did. Perhaps the discussion broke down over the phone. Perhaps there was an obvious showstopper. Perhaps Silva acted in poor faith. Perhaps (per Painter) Silva had reached some agreement with Watford before Allardyce had even resigned. I don't know, and neither do you, and so we should give Parish the benefit of the doubt, and our trust and confidence. He has done enough up to now to be treated as acting in the club's interests unless you can conclusively prove otherwise, and you can't.

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Have been reading about Mancini, my question is could we afford him and would he suit us being a "smaller club" !!