Roberto Martinez Discussion - Including Live Poll (Poll Reset 1st May)

[neil999]

Hmmmm my position may be changing...reminds me of mourinho leading up to his dismissal

 

[snipellis11]

This is not how i wanted to feel on a thursday morning, wish i hadn't bothered listening to this, his comments about baines are bizarre.

 

[toffee matt]

Can't quite work out if he is a good man out of his depth or an arrogant man who has had his pants pulled down

 

[snipellis11]

Keeps telling us the fans know we have a fantastic group of players. we are 12th and having a terrible season.

 

[technojoe]

This is not how i wanted to feel on a thursday morning, wish i hadn't bothered listening to this, his comments about baines are bizarre.

Bobby should have said what Baines meant if they were taken out of context. He clearly knows what was meant and made him apologise. But I smell a player revolt.....

 

[kithnou]

Every time the Manager opens his mouth we have a meltdown in here.

 

[JLW]

I wouldn't wait, but can you see the board doing it? Nah he'll be gone at the absolute earliest in the summer.

I'm not even sure it will happen in the summer, but we as fans must keep the pressure on him because its seems its not coming from anywhere else. That press conference then has just took it to an even higher level

 

[willo30]

No we didn't, he said himself the goal was 40 points.

According to Bill the club budgeted for 7th or higher each season. Any lower was seen as a failure I presume.

 

[oldblue]

Can't believe I had to listen through such a bland press conference thinking it was full of incendiary stuff.
Said home form and league form isn't good enough and they take responsibility. Said we deserved more at Man U but it's not good enough to just compete with them.
Where are all these excuses? It is possible that a manager can provide analysis of why things have happened and it's actually what's happened.
He isn't going to say he doesn't know what he's doing and nobody would respect him for doing that.
As for the Baines stuff, again what was he supposed to say and not have people berating him. He said that the player apologised not that he was forced to. It sounded to me like he may have apologised because the words were taken out of context. And possibly players were upset. Absolutely nothing unusual about how this was handled and one of the dullest ten minutes I've spent.

 

[Simon baker]

This is turning into a Tim Howard situation I hate him as Roberto continued to play him when he wasn't up to it that's not his fault he didn't pick himself yes his conduct was questionable but he should of been out the team before it became toxic.

Martinez Isn't up to it & is or at least I thought he was a nice man but im starting to hate him. Suppose any relationship that continues for too long ends up this way

 

[Elong]

According to Bill the club budgeted for 7th or higher each season. Any lower was seen as a failure I presume.

I was quoting someone talking about Moyes, not Bill. I understand that.

 

[RFUS]

Football wise its simply a player/manager relationship spat aired publicly. What they are like as people is irrelevant to the point at hand.

No it isn't though. When a player who isn't self-centred, with zero history of controversy speaks out, it carries more weight. Same reason most dismissed Eto'o when be spoke out.

 

[Deleted member 24970]

Calling our display against Chelsea vibrant would be stretching it for me. It was a game devoid of any quality until Rom's moment of brilliance. Good result of course but we weren't great shakes.

To be fair mate I was slating Martinez for bringing Osman on the left vs navas against city, I still believe the city attack for their goal was to exploit our left hand side when ozzy came on. Against Chelsea I thought we were solid, costa had one chance of any real danger. Everton gave us a very solid home performance on the night IMO. One of very few things bobby has got right this season - which makes the current position even more baffling.

 

[snipellis11]

Also he keeps saying our away record is brilliant, but it really isen't, our away record is ok.

 

[Elong]

No it isn't though. When a player who isn't self-centred, with zero history of controversy speaks out, it carries more weight. Same reason most dismissed Eto'o when be spoke out.

From Chelsea's point of view, he is their go to man. A vile club for a vile person no doubt, but they love him like we love Baines.