People burying their head in the sand again, it's what our fans love to do.
WE ARE in danger of going down, we're 6 points off the relegation zone with about 3 wins in 3 months, that's relegation form. If the other teams around us in danger like Burnley, Villa and perhaps even Sunderland, kick into gear and find some form in the last part of the season, and recent history suggest several teams in their predicament do, then we could be f*cked unless we do the same.
Which players are likely to leave and why do I think they will? Do you have that short a memory? What did Rooney do? What did Lescott do? What Pienaar do originally? The jibbed us off and went to teams that matched their ambitions. Went to clubs they believed could achieve what they believed we couldn't. Are people naive enough to think Barkley, Lukaku, Garbutt, Stones and a few other promising youngsters are going to stick around long at a club that doesn't look to be going anywhere? No player with any ambition would. If they don't go in the summer there's a very real chance they'd go in January or maybe the summer after next at the latest if things don't improve dramatically in that time.
We have an owner who for his all his tears, cringey clapping and good-heartedness, has no money to give to the manager for transfers that he can raise himself. Everything we spend is from players sales and has been for his entire tenure. Kenwright backed Martinez in the summer with £28m to buy Lukaku? BS. Absolute BS. That money came from the sales of the likes of Fellaini (£27m-odd), Jelavic (about £7.5m), Anichebe (about £6m overall) and a few others. And even then, there should have been some of that left over but we've never seen it. Kenwright, the invisible man Jon Woods and the Tory restaurant owner Robert Earl have never, and will never, put anything into the club from their own pockets because they know they likely won't get it back again. And because there doesn't seem to be billionaire somewhere who thinks we're worth buying it's looks likely to stay that way.
Martinez? For me, he's completely shown himself up this season with awful tactics, delusional thinking and downright arrogant explanations and I want him gone now. I respect the fact that there still seems to be a large section of fans who don't but I won't be told by anyone that I have no right to be extremely PO'ed with him after the mess he's been largely responsible for this season. A team that after last season had realistic ambitions of getting top 4 or winning a trophy, now finding ourselves right down the other end of the table, lost almost twice as many games as we've won, getting humiliated by bang average sides and crashing out of Europe with a whimper.
Spray-painting Goodison Park is a reprehensible thing to do and I hope the ones who've done it are tracked down and taught a lesson. Forgive me though for being more pissed about what I feel are more important issues.
And I'm out.
