 Costing €1.5 million, he was completely unused in his first season in which the Andalusians were relegated to the Segunda División, as Guillermo Ochoa was unchallenged.Silva remained second-choice, this time to Javi Varas, and debuted on 6 September 2017 in the second round of the Copa del Rey, a 3–0 away defeat to Real Zaragoza.He made four league appearances, the first being a 0–1 loss at Rayo Vallecano on 2 December while the veteran Spaniard was grieving the death of a family member.