mkrudden
Player Valuation: £40m
Did a quick scan of the forum's first 4 pages to see if this has already been posted. Doesn't seem to have been but apologies if so.
A topic done to death but:
What a performance. What a team Martinez put together.
Team:
Howard
Coleman
Stones
Distin
Baines
Barry
McCarthy
Osman (replaced early by Barkley)
Naismith
Mirrallas
Lukaku
The way we moved the ball, the way we defended in a tight 451, the counter-attacking... for me it's by far the best season and side we've had in recent memory.
No doubt the wheels fell off after this season. No doubt Martinez struggled to adapt to not having his best players always available / in form.
But to suggest that it was anything other than quality management of a quality team in that first season is, for me, pure revisionism.
Watch the video. So little of it resembles Moyes yet so many want to diminish Martinez's achievements by placing the plaudits at the prior manager's feet.
Shows as well what an energetic, defensively minded CM (McCarthy) can bring to a side.
Thoughts?
A topic done to death but:
What a performance. What a team Martinez put together.
Team:
Howard
Coleman
Stones
Distin
Baines
Barry
McCarthy
Osman (replaced early by Barkley)
Naismith
Mirrallas
Lukaku
The way we moved the ball, the way we defended in a tight 451, the counter-attacking... for me it's by far the best season and side we've had in recent memory.
No doubt the wheels fell off after this season. No doubt Martinez struggled to adapt to not having his best players always available / in form.
But to suggest that it was anything other than quality management of a quality team in that first season is, for me, pure revisionism.
Watch the video. So little of it resembles Moyes yet so many want to diminish Martinez's achievements by placing the plaudits at the prior manager's feet.
Shows as well what an energetic, defensively minded CM (McCarthy) can bring to a side.
Thoughts?