Hangleton
Player Valuation: £25m
Not really a surprise that Hughes is getting a few mentions - considering we've had one injury time 1-0 win in the last six games. While Stoke have beaten City, Utd us and Chelsea.
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By SIMON JONES FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 14:05, 28 December 2015 | UPDATED: 16:25, 28 December 2015
"Senior players last week voiced concern over the team's tactics to Martinez.
Everton's squad held a team meeting in which they exchanged frank opinions about the side's style of play with Martinez and coach Graeme Jones.
Everton were ninth in the table on Monday morning and in the semi-final of the Capital One Cup.
Their attacking play has at times been very easy on the eye but the players are concerned that it is style over substance and is leaving them 'too open and vulnerable' to counter attacks from the opposition.
Everton have won just three of their last 11 Premier League games, drawing five and losing to Manchester United, Arsenal and Leicester City.
The older heads in the dressing room believe some of those draws and the defeat by Leicester particularly could have been avoided if they had adopted a more cagey approach.
Martinez is understood to have listened to their views but is a firm believer that his side can still break into the top four playing with the attacking flair he advocates.
Talks are ongoing with a US consortium over a potential £200million plus takeover and Everton are looking to resist bids for their star players in January, with John Stones, Romelu Lukaku, Seamus Coleman and Ross Barkley admired by Europe's elite clubs"
Players taking it upon themselves to voice their concerns. The last time this happened the attacking side of our game improved immensely. The same will happen with the defensive side of our game. Nothing like determined players with a desire to improve.
They scored from the 4 of the 5 chances they had, all of which came from basic mistakes from us.
However, they showed the clinical finishing and quality to get in those positions and capitalise, so fair play to them. They have some good players and players that would definitely make a difference to our side/squad, that's for sure.
Don't mind the majority of their fans either, seem a realistic enough bunch. As long as they batter the RS I ain't arsed.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
The question was....who without doubt has proven themselves to be a better premier league manager.
The answer is an easy one with bags of proof.
Also no one is saying Hughes is the man for the job he was a suggestion in fact when I said it I'm sure I said he's by NO means the best manager out there, but working within our budget I think he'd do a good job. He got that front 4 of Stokes for a combined 17.5 mil, not that I think they'd get anywhere near our front 4 but it does show he has an eye for talent. The bit about them getting near our front 4 only highlights what a piss poor job Martinez is doing that we are yet again behind Stoke.
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's dire. Yesterday they got out of jail with a scuffed shot from Shaqiri and a Clattenburg gift pen.
I'd love us to meet them in the final of the LC. There'd be a different outcome that day.
Well this little chat obviously worked wonders yesterday
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
No surprises there, good to see the players are here for the good of the club and not the good of Martinez like almost all of our Fans. They want to play winning football first and foremost.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
How can you say he's dire with a straight face after that poster listed the clubs that Stoke team have recently beat. It's one thing to not like him but 'dire'? It just shows your bias to anything other than Martinez, and I include Everton in that. The only poster who puts an individual ahead of the club, fortunately most have seen through you. You can't even comment on the clubs form. He doesn't read this forum you know, he's not going to be cross with you.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
To be honest Stoke's front 4 are very well balanced and very good. Bojan is a gem and the exact sort of player we are missing. Arnautavic is powerful and quick, and Shaquiri while inconsistent has undoubted quality. It's a very close run thing between those 3 and the 3 we would pick to be fair.
Not that it would ever happen, but if Mark Hughes ever became our manager I would stop watching football. I'm hard pushed to think of any current manager who is as loathsome as Hughes and that includes the man with the oddly shaped head over at Man U.
Give me Rom, Ross and Geri over them all day.
This season in the league is already looking like a write off for me. If he fails to win us a cup then he needs to be jibbed, no doubt.
mythbuster
Player Valuation: £35m
Yeah, like I said, it only makes you look like a premature ejaculation. You couldn't wait to get it off. It must have been a delightful moment for you mate.
All those months after, the first thing you could think of was me, and your ego. I was holding my head in my hands. You were already lining up your 'gloats' - says it all really.
TheHumbleEgg
Player Valuation: £15m
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