Liverpool 'have asked to speak to Martinez says Wigan chief'

[linglong]

Martinez is adept at getting terrible players to play good football.

Liverpool have a wide selection of terrible players.

Makes sense really.





Oh and Antonio, 9 points isn't that big of a step up.

LOL,put ya claws away

 

[njligernj]

Remove your RS self delusion and think about having a young manager with fresh ideas, a good tactical brain, who's philosophy is passing and attacking football.

I realize the smart thing to do is to look at overall philosophy more-so than just goals scored ... but they were 17th in goals scored. To some extent shouldn't this incredible philosophy result in some goals every now and again? There is only one year in Moyes tenure where we scored less goals than Wigan scored this year. Talent-wise, aside from one season of Yak, half a season (so far) with Jel and patches of Saha it's not as if we've been blessed with overwhelming talent at striker. In fact this is seen as Moyes Achilles heel in many ways; yet somehow Martinez (is it the name?) manages to score less goals than park the bus "boring hoofball" teams and skate away with this attacking reputation.

Did he do better in past years? Let me check ... they scored even less the season before! 19th in goals scored. His first year in charge they scored even less total goals than any of his seasons (although because others in the league scored even fewer he has his highest GF rank of 16th) -- I suppose on the bright side he's (very slowly) improving the goals scored (at least in total although relative to competition he's not improving at all).

I will admit I don't follow non-Everton teams that closely (and when I do watch non-Everton games it would be an important game not a Wigan game) so maybe I'm missing something and I'm sure some will make excuses for why this happens. I'm going to assume those excuses will be that he has no great players. He has spent 24m since taking over (which was balanced by sales but still he got to buy 11 players and get some more on free transfers). This is almost exactly what we spent in that same period (also balanced by sales). Granted, we are a bigger club and can likely attract better players and pay higher wages. However compared with other relegation contenders he has likely spent more (or at least the same) as he's at no significant disadvantage with regard to club stature with those teams. So he spent more (or the same) as other relegation level teams and scored less goals than most of them. What am I missing here?

I just don't get the love-in for this guy. Horrible win rate, no goals ... if I watched Wigan v. Sunderland would I really see such an overwhelming display of attacking football from Wigan (but with no actual goals scored as a result) I'd be won over? Odd.

Happy enough for him to go to the RS.