Simon Jordan claims Marco Silva has never been qualified to manage Everton as the pressure mounts on the under-fire boss.
The Portuguese coach was handed a three-year deal by Goodison Park chiefs last summer after spells with Hull and Watford.
Silva could not stop Hull’s slump into the Championship in 2016/17 before being sacked by Watford after less than eight months in charge in January 2018.
The 42-year-old is under increasing pressure at Everton following Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat by relegation-threatened Norwich, which leaves the club 15th and only four points clear of the bottom three.
Speaking to the Final Word on talkSPORT, Jordan said: “I don’t know how he got the job in the first place quite frankly.
“I really like [Everton chairman] Bill Kenwright, I count him as a friend.
“I think on the whole, most of the managerial decisions he’s made, alongside [Everton’s majority shareholder Farhad] Moshiri, but primarily when he had all the influence with [managers like] David Moyes, Roberto Martinez and Ronald Koeman, they were advancing the football club.
“This guy has come from Olympiakos, he went into Hull. He was ridiculed, I know, from the Soccer Saturday punditry team before he got to Hull.
“It looked like he was going to keep them up, he didn’t keep them up and went to Watford.
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“He had two or three months of a reasonable level of football and that qualified him for a huge project like Everton with a guy like Moshiri, who was bringing players in and having huge ambition to want to move this football club forward with a new stadium.”
It does not get any easier for Silva and Everton, who face Leicester, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal in their next five Premier League matches.
Watch Simon Jordan discussing Marco Silva, in full, above…
