Antolin Alcaraz
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Player Valuation: £35m
the cheeks of his arse from now till the end of the season.
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He drives a Lambo as well, the cheesy bellend.
Will be gone in the summer maybe to the mls with timothy
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
RM has come out defending Alcaraz, from the Echo.
Roberto Martinez insists making Antolin Alcaraz a scapegoat for Everton's Europa League exit is “unfair”, offering a passionate defence of his under-fire centre-half following Thursday night's 5-2 thrashing at the hands of Dynamo Kiev.
Martinez insists the whole team were to blame for their poor defensive show at the Olympic Stadium, and says 32-year-old Alcaraz was left exposed too often.
The Everton manager kept faith with the Paraguayan alongside captain Phil Jagielka after the pair had played in the first leg win over Kiev, and then helped the Blues to a clean sheet against Newcastle last weekend.
Evertonians were angered that John Stones was not recalled to the starting line-up after recovering from a virus but Martinez says it would have been a “risk” to throw him back in at the deep end.
“Antolin has the experience of playing in Europe before and John is a young man and sometimes we need to give him the right game to compete for his place,” Martinez said.
“We are now looking back at the game and it is very easy to say ‘this should have been done' but you need to allow football to make the decisions.
“Antolin and Phil had created a very strong partnership in the previous two games and after keeping a clean sheet against Newcastle there is no need to dislodge that.
“Second, since he had the virus John has not played any football so it would be a major, major risk to throw him into a game of that intensity with the last experience he had away from home in Europe when he got sent off.
“It was important to have continuity in the back four that kept a clean sheet on Sunday and that is the reason.” Martinez added: “Antolin had to deal with too many actions that we, as a team, didn't stop well enough on Thursday night.
“I don't think defensively he had a poor game, I think as a team we put our defence and keeper under immense pressure because our defensive performance as a team wasn't up to standard.”
Leads me to think a contract extension may well be offered!
Roberto Martinez insists making Antolin Alcaraz a scapegoat for Everton's Europa League exit is “unfair”, offering a passionate defence of his under-fire centre-half following Thursday night's 5-2 thrashing at the hands of Dynamo Kiev.
Martinez insists the whole team were to blame for their poor defensive show at the Olympic Stadium, and says 32-year-old Alcaraz was left exposed too often.
The Everton manager kept faith with the Paraguayan alongside captain Phil Jagielka after the pair had played in the first leg win over Kiev, and then helped the Blues to a clean sheet against Newcastle last weekend.
Evertonians were angered that John Stones was not recalled to the starting line-up after recovering from a virus but Martinez says it would have been a “risk” to throw him back in at the deep end.
“Antolin has the experience of playing in Europe before and John is a young man and sometimes we need to give him the right game to compete for his place,” Martinez said.
“We are now looking back at the game and it is very easy to say ‘this should have been done' but you need to allow football to make the decisions.
“Antolin and Phil had created a very strong partnership in the previous two games and after keeping a clean sheet against Newcastle there is no need to dislodge that.
“Second, since he had the virus John has not played any football so it would be a major, major risk to throw him into a game of that intensity with the last experience he had away from home in Europe when he got sent off.
“It was important to have continuity in the back four that kept a clean sheet on Sunday and that is the reason.” Martinez added: “Antolin had to deal with too many actions that we, as a team, didn't stop well enough on Thursday night.
“I don't think defensively he had a poor game, I think as a team we put our defence and keeper under immense pressure because our defensive performance as a team wasn't up to standard.”
Leads me to think a contract extension may well be offered!
Martinez is absolutely right.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Just for clarification Zat I meant actual girls, not pretend ones or ones that have male genitalia.
Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Dont let your old man heae you say that, he'll be devastated...hows his rwcovery going anyway?
Well I hope.
Well I hope.
blue_aussie05
Player Valuation: £8m
God, I hope not. But I somehow feel like Martinez will crowbar him into the team in the last 5 games.
As for beyond that, I really don't think he's good enough to be offered a contract extension - even if it's only one more year as a 4th choice centre half. Because as happened this year, if he was offered this deal under those terms, I've got a funny feeling he would get a fair bit of game time anyway.
Martinez seems to love him.
What are your thoughts?
As for beyond that, I really don't think he's good enough to be offered a contract extension - even if it's only one more year as a 4th choice centre half. Because as happened this year, if he was offered this deal under those terms, I've got a funny feeling he would get a fair bit of game time anyway.
Martinez seems to love him.
What are your thoughts?
Tempted to post a gif ive just seen.
Please No !
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