Everton manager Marco Silva has responded to advice from former Toffees boss Sam Allardyce, by saying: "If it was David Moyes, maybe I'd listen".
Allardyce and Silva coming up against each other in the past (image via The Times).
Allardyce, who was the man that Silva replaced at Goodison Park, used Everton's recent defeat to Leicester City to tell Silva where he was going wrong.
Silva started off the season very well with Everton, but there was no word from Allardyce then; so the timing seems not very incidental.
"You can talk about playing it out from the back and attractive football, but you will never survive as Ronald Koeman and Roberto Martinez learnt," Allardyce said on Silva.
"They all played so-called better football than me, but they didn't survive."
Silva responded to the former England manager's critical comments, by saying: "If there are real Everton fans talking like that, then maybe we have to be aware and to look at it, but if some people don't want good results, just instability within our club, they are not worth listening to.
"If it is David Moyes, maybe I would listen because he did something really important at this club.
"If somebody loves our club and they are not happy, OK. I see a person who loves our club and wants us to win. If not, I do not care. In this case, it is not important at all."