What is Martinez Playing at?

[Jxg]

Yeah, the Mirror, I know...

He still said all of it.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/evertons-ross-barkley-can-do-3298893?

“And it would cost them a lot of money!” the Spaniard warned. “He is as good an English talent as we’ve seen, and that’s going to alert teams competing to win the Champions League, never mind the Premier League.

“He’s got the potential to achieve what Bale did.

“You’re talking about two to three years to fulfil that – that goal at Newcastle in midweek shows what he is. As well as the power, he has the control and the class.

“Once a player fulfils his potential and has done everything at a club, it’s not positive for anyone to keep him because he’s then not going to produce the kind of performance the team needs.”

This is Moyes negativity. Come on Roberto, don't be like this.

 

[DanEFC92]

Saw more outrageous stuff in the 4th v The Title thread.

 

[deipnosophist]

Roberto has taken a leaf out of Jose's book and is playing some beautiful mind games here. He is a brilliant tactician

 

[deipnosophist]

Fulham tomorrow...must win game

 

[LinekersLegs]

Or he could be saying to kenwright "invest or Barkley and I are off to Barca"

 

[Duncan Disordely]

Everton manager Roberto Martinez believes that Ross Barkley has the potential to follow Gareth Bale’s golden path to Real Madrid.

Martinez insists he wants to build the Goodison club's future around the fledgling talent of the 19-year-old England midfielder.

But he acknowledges that if Barkley outgrows the club they would be prey to Madrid and the rest of European football’s elite.

It's not like he's talking about Arsenal etc he's talking Madrid or Barcelona

 

[toffee matt]

Fulham tomorrow...must win game

Must not loose game

 

[blue to the bone]

If a club came in with a huge offer for Ross he would be sold.. That's how Everton operates

 

[toffee matt]

If a club came in with a huge offer for Ross he would be sold.. That's how Everton operates

Sad but true, if a large bid came in kenwright and co would take it into their own hands. Martinez wouldn't have a say in matters

 

[deipnosophist]

If a club came in with a huge offer for Ross he would be sold.. That's how Everton operates

EVERY club has it's price...football is a business remember

 

[Billy Dean]

EVERY club has it's price...football is a business remember

True, there are few clubs who could not be considered "selling clubs". Prob only the 2 big Spanish clubs

 

[blue to the bone]

I agree but we sell on more of our prized assets then most clubs. sad but true

 

[BoysInBlue]

If a club came in with a huge offer for Ross he would be sold.. That's how Everton operates

It's how every club operates, Arsenal (RVP/Fabrecgas) and Spurs (Berbatov/Bale) included.

The difference, of course, is whether the money you recoup is invested in the team - or handed over the banks.

Anyway, it's just the tabloids trying to sell our players and jumping on words, taking them out of context and framing it for their own aims.

No non-EFC fans want us to finish in the top 4 - certainly not the tabloids, because that will mean they were wrong. Remember the laughing at Roberto back in June, when the Champions League aim was mentioned? Remember the poll on the Daily Mail website, 91% saying there was no chance of us finishing in the top 4?

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Get that Catalan comedian out of this club.

 

[RFUS]

If a club came in with a huge offer for Ross he would be sold.. That's how Everton operates

True, but if a club in our financial situation turned down an astronomical bid for one player I'd be pissed off. As good as Ross could be, no one player could be worth say, £50m, to us. Think of how much we could strengthen the team with that kind of money.