Marco still has plenty to prove

IT wouldn’t surprise me if one of the big boys snapped up Watford’s Marco silva, but they will want to look at him over a longer period. He’s not there yet.

and I don’t mean everton, I mean a top-six club. a real trophy- hunting club. He seems the real deal.

There are comparisons with Jose Mourinho but is that because they are both Portugese? Jose is a serial winner and silva has work to do before he can get to that level. silva is gaining his own reputation and is turning heads. He gave Hull — a club that was destined to go down — a fighting chance and took them close to staying up. I thought Watford would be in the same predicament — and now I’ve got egg on my face!

He has made them exciting and entertaining to watch. They swept newcastle aside with ease, against some catastrophic defending.

In the short term, everton could be a natural stepping stone to a higher level.

Whatever the manager is saying publicly, he is bound to prefer the look of the dugout at goodison. He’s ambitious and how long can Watford feed that ambition?