Martinez

[Jebus_lives]

Yes, but he was fighting a media campaign against a narrative that had us in 'relegation' trouble when we went to 12th in the table at one point.

Ive always felt he's a bit of a victim of his own success.

 

[degsy]

Feeble excuses, or what might have been ? Interesting he references Kenwright being ill.

Fair points, but his unfinished business will have to remain just that - unfinished

Why?
When he mentioned tne Centre Half's passing...and you have to pass better.
He's still stuck in his same old groove Re 'The kin Philosophy'

1) The Philosophy is always Right (or it wouldn't be the Philosophy would it)
2) Therefore The Philosophy can't be wrong
3) If you don't get results...repeat 1 & 2
4) The cure is not Less Philosophy But More.

didn't work then - won't work now

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

History will repeat itself mate, just watch.

We will go from Moyes now to someone of Martinez profile but of this time.

Honestly if we can get a first season like Bobby’s out of it, I’d take it. Last time I was truly happy, that.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Still speaks better about Everton now than the negative dullard manager we have in charge at the moment.

'Unfinished business'.

Hmmm.

 

[davek]

Roberto interview today in the Guardian.

He's doing a lot of manoeuvres lately in this country.

I can defo see him back managing here after the World Cup.

Roberto Martínez: ‘It’s a hammer blow when you don’t succeed, but let us dream’

The Portugal head coach, who describes the country as a ‘football school’, tells Sid Lowe why he is ready to take risks in pursuit of World Cup glory

www.theguardian.com

 

[COYBL25]

Roberto interview today in the Guardian.

He's doing a lot of manoeuvres lately in this country.

I can defo see him back managing here after the World Cup.

Roberto Martínez: ‘It’s a hammer blow when you don’t succeed, but let us dream’

The Portugal head coach, who describes the country as a ‘football school’, tells Sid Lowe why he is ready to take risks in pursuit of World Cup glory

www.theguardian.com

Spurs in the Championship.

 

[Drico]

He’d be a good Spurs manager, actually: flakey attacking, non-existent defending, good in a cup.

An upmarket Ossie Ardiles.

 

[Marius57]

The problem is European football requires not only a bigger squad, but also regular European football to pay for the bigger squad.
We added players to fill out numbers who were not good enough to justify enlarging the squad.
If we’d have spent more/better then, and got into Europe again for a couple of seasons after, we wouldn’t have been left with an oversized, overpaid squad on a reduced income.

Bill trying to cut corners cost us, and set up our financial problems for the next decade.

When he left us he had the record (at the time) for our 1st and 3rd highest ever net spends. If we spent badly and he couldn’t maintain Europe, that’s on him. Moyes managed with lower net spends.

 

[Marius57]

Martinez's reign was pretty much the last time we saw any attempt to play ball to feet football at this club on a consistent basis.

The fans - when the results / league position turned average - weren't prepared to stick with it.

we won 5 of his last 20 league games in charge. Only won 1 of his last 10.

They aren’t average results. Thats battling relegation form akin to Dyche.

 

[Everton1654]

we won 5 of his last 20 league games in charge. Only won 1 of his last 10.

They aren’t average results. Thats battling relegation form akin to Dyche.

Remember his last derby at Anfield, it was embarrassing. Think they had 40 shots to our 2 or something

 

[Tonymckinn1878]

Roberto interview today in the Guardian.

He's doing a lot of manoeuvres lately in this country.

I can defo see him back managing here after the World Cup.

Roberto Martínez: ‘It’s a hammer blow when you don’t succeed, but let us dream’

The Portugal head coach, who describes the country as a ‘football school’, tells Sid Lowe why he is ready to take risks in pursuit of World Cup glory

www.theguardian.com

Think he’ll be the next Celtic manager

 

[davek]

Think he’ll be the next Celtic manager

That would be a great move for him, tbh. They're rebuilding now . He knows up there too.

 

[degsy]

Stubborn to Moyes standards?

In his own way, yes
they all are.
Some, like Martinez, call it - The Philosophy
Some call it something else
Some call it my way or the highway...and if it's not working, well it can't be the Philosophy's fault, because it's like 'the Philosophy - my philosophy
Therefore it can't be wrong, coz it's like the philosophy innit, so round and round you go

The only cure is apply More philosophy, because it can't be the philosophy's fault etc, etc, rinse repeat

 

[DanB90]

During the height of his first season I was speaking with a Wigan season ticket holder who warned me of what was to come.

Didn’t want to believe him at the time, but he was spot on with pretty much everything from the defensive frailties, set piece negligence and stagnant possession.

 

[Tommy Chong]

And never forget that he could have gone for Van Dijk but went for Funes Mori instead

Imagine VVD at Everton, Mikey? Do you think he’d still have been a class A knob, or do you reckon we would have instilled some real character into him?