where did we finish in the league last season? How much did we get beat by when we got knocked out of Europa league? Who signed Alcaraz? why are we not a force at home anymore? Another Everton fan who can't see the faults in the club.
11th
We lost 5-2 playing our 4th choice cB, who was signed by Martinez as a last choice back up and no more
Could've been worse, could have lost 2-0 to west ham.
While this is a situation I'm not happy with, if we had lost our goal scoring winger, our midfield destroyer, and a promising young left back, we would be in a much worse situation. The fact that they stayed and cited Martinez is to me positive
As I've said stoke need back up in the centre of the pitch and in defence to compensate for nzonzi's loss and shawcross' long term injury. They now have a plethora of players in that advanced position (diouf, afellay,Shaqiri, Walters,bojan,Adam, arnautovic) it is a great signing for them but it does not address their central concerns and Martinez has indicated he will do that.