Is Martinez our best signing this year?

[Jags..class]

Martinez comes across very well, always smiling and verypositive about the club and the players. Is he a world-class manager in themaking? Only 39 and already won the F.A cup with a smaller club then Evertonwhose fans are desperate for silverware.
Wenger said that Roberto Martinez is like a younger me.Martinez has based his approach around a commitment to attractive football andimaginative scouting. "Martinez has a positive philosophy. Above all, whatyou want is that he tries to play good football," added Wenger, whopredicted he could go much further in the game. "That for me, is a goodbasis to go forward and move higher up. He looks to master the situations well.
Martinez football philosophy around the globe is recognizedby players and will grow now he got silverware on his CV. Kone said on hisarrival to Wigan that Robertotold me how he likes his teams to play on the floor, which is a style I’m usedto in Spain. These were words that really persuaded me to join. This philosophyhad helped us clinch the loan signing of Gerard Deulofeu. He already gotour team passing from the back which is good news for me, was pissed off withJags hoofing the ball and bypassing our midfield, Jags could become thecomplete defender under Martinez. People argue that Martinez was a strong influencein the building of Swansea. I’m just glad that Liverpool hired Brendon Rodgersinstead of Martinez. Martinez is the right choice for Everton.

 

[flo]

We'll see.

 

[Pblueman]

wheres the poll??????

 

[Goat]

Is he fck.

 

[somuchfun]

is right. first wanted him to come, then kneejerked but I like what he's trying to do and seems a nice bloke to boot

 

[Housequake]

We'll see.

Indeed, i'm very happy with the appointment so far though.

That said, I'd come to dislike Moyes so much by the end of his tenure here a garden gnome with the liver bird tatooed on his f*cking forehead would've done more for me than him.

 

[KevMirallas]

If our aim was to pump Accrington Stanley, then he's been a boss signing.

 

[efc1111]

He turned 40 last week, so he's over the hill now

I like the comments from Wenger; hadn't seen those before. Yes, it's very early days but I'm pleased with him and I'd been saying since we didn't sign anyone in the January window that I thought Moyes would be off at the end of the season and Martinez was the man I wanted to replace him. Obviously the Wigan relegation didn't help his reputation, but they were only relegated by three points so only one win away from the likes of Southampton and Sunderland who stayed up and are busy strengthening their squads with the sort of cash he would never get at Wigan.

He kept Wigan up for 2/3 years despite their playing budget being slashed following the Steve Bruce era, won the FA Cup, but before that, the work he did at Swansea marked him out for me as a good young manager with a progressive and refreshing approach to the game. He's clearly a student of the game and lives and breathes it, and Swansea have reaped the benefits of the ground work he did there, backed by a supportive board, and I hope our board back him too.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Good question; RM is easily the most important signing this year, so whether he ends up successful or not will determine his value (or damage) to the club.

Some managers come to a club and try to instill a new or tweaked philosophy of play, but the team looks broken and disjointed and all you're left wondering is why does he talk about what's in the envelope. Other teams can take a £50M striker and make him so bad he puts on a mask. If effective, it's possible that RM creates more value out of the the four new signings by himself than the have under other managers. RM has a good buzz so far, and if the players agree and buy in then every player can be influenced.

 

[Jags..class]

He turned 40 last week, so he's over the hill now

I like the comments from Wenger; hadn't seen those before. Yes, it's very early days but I'm pleased with him and I'd been saying since we didn't sign anyone in the January window that I thought Moyes would be off at the end of the season and Martinez was the man I wanted to replace him. Obviously the Wigan relegation didn't help his reputation, but they were only relegated by three points so only one win away from the likes of Southampton and Sunderland who stayed up and are busy strengthening their squads with the sort of cash he would never get at Wigan.

He kept Wigan up for 2/3 years despite their playing budget being slashed following the Steve Bruce era, won the FA Cup, but before that, the work he did at Swansea marked him out for me as a good young manager with a progressive and refreshing approach to the game. He's clearly a student of the game and lives and breathes it, and Swansea have reaped the benefits of the ground work he did there, backed by a supportive board, and I hope our board back him too.

Just hope the fans will give him time to build a team and not get on the team back and his this season, still surprised that Liverpool chose Brendon ahead of Martinez.

 

[D410]

It,s a bit early for pom pom waiving is,nt it.

Lets wait till May 2014 and look at the table.

 

[davek]

His historic task at Everton is to try and eradicate the tendency to revert to a long ball game that has been a defining feature of our club for too long (unfairly portrayed that way a lot of the time, but nevertheless it still had validity as a criticism). If he can regain our status as an attractive team that rarely gives up on trying to play football on the deck as we had the reputation up and down the land for doing once upon a time he'll have all our thanks.

I think he'll get massive criticism in the short term from those who just see results as the be all and end all. But he needs a full season to get on top of this problem and start making the easy launch into the opposition half when under the least pressure a thing of the past. We were known as the School of Science - lets get back to that.

 

[Jags..class]

His historic task at Everton is to try and eradicate the tendency to revert to a long ball game that has been a defining feature of our club for too long (unfairly portrayed that way a lot of the time, but nevertheless it still had validity as a criticism). If he can regain our status as an attractive team that rarely gives up on trying to play football on the deck as we had the reputation up and down the land for doing once upon a time he'll have all our thanks.

I think he'll get massive criticism in the short term from those who just see results as the be all and end all. But he needs a full season to get on top of this problem and start making the easy launch into the opposition half when under the least pressure a thing of the past. We were known as the School of Science - lets get back to that.

I Find it strange that Moyes didn't try and turn us into an attacking team in the last 5 seasons when we were stable, he going to have to change now at Man u.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

It,s a bit early for pom pom waiving is,nt it.

Lets wait till May 2014 and look at the table.

^^^^ Is the right answer.

I'll reserve judgement until I've witnessed a full season of watching Jags & the milkman trying to play out from the back when being pressed by quality forwards.........

 

[Shibbywiggles]

At 40 I can't see him commanding any kind of sell on fee. Very risky.

But seriously, I'm quite happy with how Alcaraz and Robles have looked and Kone and Del could both be excellent players for us even though neither are long term solutions due to age and going back to Barca.