Marco Silva’s next Everton challenge is to make progress last an entire season

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Marco Silva has displayed both ambition and the ability to improve a team quickly during his managerial career in England.

He made an instant impact at Hull and his short-termist approach fitted with the Watford blueprint, but it feels like the time has come for him to lay some roots down and take on a longer-term project.

Silva does look perfectly suited to the modern game’s hiring and firing culture but that can easily see a manager’s star fall as well as rise; but it is about time Everton had some stability that has been lacking since David Moyes left for Manchester United in 2013.

Everton need a long-term manager and Silva has to prove he can be that man, which would involve him staying at a club longer than he has managed since coming to England.

Premier League clubs are generally excellent at figuring out a manager’s weaknesses; so far, Silva hasn’t stuck around long enough anywhere to show how he would adapt to that, but he will need to at Everton.

Silva’s willingness to ditch Watford last season must also worry Everton that he could easily leave them in the lurch if something he views as better comes along.

That’s a reputation Silva must not get; clubs will not want a manager who does not even pretend to be in the business of sticking around.