What do you think the problem is? Personel, tactics etc
Defensively we are terrible again. We are in dire need of a manager who has both tactical principles because we seem to be in a yo-yo with one who can defend to a very good level leaving us toothless up front to a manager who can give us goals but leaves us horribly exposed.
There must be something about Silva too in terms of his training style that doesn't work as he consistently has periods with clubs where he's excellent at the beginning and then it completely goes to shit mid-season.
We have the basis of a really good team but many of them are horrendously out of form and we are still plagued with a bit of Rooney-syndrome. Every single time we bring through youth players they're elevated to an absurd standard (not just by the media but by our own fans, myself included at times) that then turns sour because they just aren't good enough to be top table players yet. Take Davies for example, he's only 20 but he feels like he's been with us for a long time already because he's in and out of the side rather than being sent to a Championship side to ready him for us ala Barkley did before he started putting in the types of performances that got him noticed by Chelsea.
I have no idea what's wrong with our negotiating team either. We get shafted by other PL teams time and time again. 50m on Richarlison, 30m+ Gylfi, 30m Pickford, 20m Walcott, 20m Schneiderlin...the list goes on. Digne and Gomes were excellent pulls by Silva (albeit Gomes seems to go through horrendous patches of form which is overshadowed by really really good ones) but the rest haven't done particularly well.
All in all we need to go back to our roots a little bit and remember why we made the top 8 consistently under Moyes. A bit of humility in the market. Exploiting the European and lower league market for players is the reason that Bournemouth and Wolves are in the place that they are. Bournemouth uncovering gems like Brooks and Wolves with their Portuguese contingency, coupled in with two managers that play very nice flowing football.