I said at the time of the Everton approach that his lack of commitment was worrying given his short tenure at Watford. If he'd done well here he wouldn't have lasted more than a season before moving on, and perhaps Parish recognised that too.

Someone made an interesting tongue in cheek comment on social media that perhaps Everton could now get rid of Sam and then sign Silva without having to pay the £10m compensation

Dodged a bullet?

But hired an atom bomb instead. Silva or Dyche were undoubtedly better options to me than de Boer then, still are, and forever will be.

Actually if we did get Silva and let him go, not only might we have Roy in a better league position and team condition but also be £10 million richer from Everton's compensation offer.

COYP

Frank was the right choice over Silva for what we wanted. Someone who was going to a stick around and bring stability. It didn’t work out but he still ticked the boxes more than Silva who openly admitted he would be off the first time a big club flashed their knickers at him.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

Which ever way it’s dressed up, Silva ultimately failed at Hull as he didn’t keep them up. This was the job he was bought into do and he didn’t achieve it. Don’t forget, with 3 games to go and the next game being Sunderland at home, Hull had positioned themselves well. Silva’s tactics and team selection against Sunderland and then Palace were extremely naive to say the least. At both Hull and Watford he has thrown together 5/6 signings and they have done well for 10 games and then fallen away badly. Pardew has taken a hell of a lot of stick for previously having that managerial trait.

Nobody knows for a fact whether we spoke to Silva or whether he had already done a deal with Watford which would of meant it was pointless for Parish to fly and speak to him. What is pretty accurate is that the guy has had two premier league opportunities and not done more than 6 months in either. It doesn’t mean that Parish was right to appoint de Boer (which I thought was a reasonable appointment at the time) but it does indicate he done the right thing in not appointing Silva.

Watford would have been talking to Silva weeks before Sam quit.
And they would have been talking to Gracia for weeks as well.
All lined up ready to take over.
Nearly as good as Southampton’s “Black Box’.

Palace 13th 2017/18.

It all doesn’t really matter and water under the bridge. We have ended up with Roy, who is a class act at club level. We are much better off with Roy, than either Silva, Dyche or Pellegrino, all of whom are ambitious and would be just using us as a stepping stone in a career path.