Kieno
Player Valuation: £750k
I want Martinez gone - but I think people get wound up too much about what he says in his interviews. Of course he's not going to critisise his players publically - I'd be even more disayed by him if he did.
My biggest concern is the way we play - but also the amount of rubbish he has brought in to the club and the rubbish he's likely to bring in this Summer if he's still here (Cleverley and Lennon for starters). He has filled the squad with West Brom level players from Alcaraz to McGeady to Atsu to Lennon to Barry to Eto'o to Robles, to Kone (and despite everyone raving about him, I'm personally not at all convinced by Besic either). That's an awful lot of very very poor signings for a manager who's been in a job for only 3 windows - and that lot cost nearly £20 Million!!
Then there's the players he didn't sign - no back up for Coleman or Barkley - no replacement for Distin, Osman, Howard or Pienaar, we're stuck with one winger in most games because we don't have any credible options
The only good signings he has made have been McCarthy and Lukaku - and personally, I think we'd have been much wiser to spread the £28 Million for Lukaku around a bit more given the fact that about 10 of our squad are the wrong side of 30 - some well over it - and that is building up to a very very serious problem, very soon.
I also want to see some proof that he can pick out an un-obvious decent signing. He knew McCarthy already and every gobshite knew Lukaku and how good he was. The market we're in, we need to pull out cheap jems like we did with Stones, Pienaar, Lescott, Coleman and loads of others. This guy doesn't have that ability!
My biggest concern is the way we play - but also the amount of rubbish he has brought in to the club and the rubbish he's likely to bring in this Summer if he's still here (Cleverley and Lennon for starters). He has filled the squad with West Brom level players from Alcaraz to McGeady to Atsu to Lennon to Barry to Eto'o to Robles, to Kone (and despite everyone raving about him, I'm personally not at all convinced by Besic either). That's an awful lot of very very poor signings for a manager who's been in a job for only 3 windows - and that lot cost nearly £20 Million!!
Then there's the players he didn't sign - no back up for Coleman or Barkley - no replacement for Distin, Osman, Howard or Pienaar, we're stuck with one winger in most games because we don't have any credible options
The only good signings he has made have been McCarthy and Lukaku - and personally, I think we'd have been much wiser to spread the £28 Million for Lukaku around a bit more given the fact that about 10 of our squad are the wrong side of 30 - some well over it - and that is building up to a very very serious problem, very soon.
I also want to see some proof that he can pick out an un-obvious decent signing. He knew McCarthy already and every gobshite knew Lukaku and how good he was. The market we're in, we need to pull out cheap jems like we did with Stones, Pienaar, Lescott, Coleman and loads of others. This guy doesn't have that ability!
