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IrishBlue2022
Player Valuation: £15m
Those players obviously improved us but they were added to a team that had Coleman, Baines, Jagielka, Distin, Mirallas already. That core defensive unit was there.
It was widely said that Martinez didnt practice set pieces. So take that constant drilling away and after his first season, if i remember correctly, we became less effective and scoring from corners and less effective at defending them.
Roberto brought in great players but he also brought in others that he rated highly but were very poor.
Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
It amazes me that people believe the set pieces thing. There is no way on earth that he never practiced set pieces. He may not have held them in very high importance but he would practice them.
Distin was binned off after a few months. Coleman and Baines were not known for the defensive work as much as going forward and McCarthy and Barry being there allowed them to bomb on.
There were some bad signings of course, every manager has them. Kone gets unfairly thrown in that group, he got a horrific injury in his debut.
His biggest mistake was not binning off Howard when he was basically conceding from every shot on target.
He was rightly sacked by the way, once the fans turn you are doomed. Shame though, could have been great.
The Nature Boy
Player Valuation: £950k
Woooo!
Kirkles
Player Valuation: £6m
Player’s move to Crystal Palace slowed due to administrative issues – Will ‘head to London’ tomorrow - Sport Witness
Towards the end of June, there were various reports in the French press discussing Crystal Palace’s interest in Cheick Doucouré. It was also explained the RC Lens player was ‘very close’ to joining the Eagles after the two clubs reached total agreement for his transfer. However, Crystal Palace...
Happens all the time with players moving from France
IrishBlue2022
Player Valuation: £15m
I think there was a lot of talk about the set pieces leading up to his sacking. I can't remeber if any players have said anything since he left though. I'll have a look around to refresh my own memory.
Yeah i liked Roberto. I think he had potential. But he didn't alter his approach when it wasn't working and needes to be a bit more pragmatic. I haven't watched much of Belgium to see if he has changed his ways at all. But always hope he does well.
Lobster Johnson
Player Valuation: £35m
He has. It's about getting his P45 etc out of Lille's offices before we can announce it. Or he's filming a daft video
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
Changed his mind after realising we aren't scoring any goals this season.
IrishBlue2022
Player Valuation: £15m
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Papa Shango
Player Valuation: £70m
Osman could be talking nonsense of course!
I can't see how a professional coach and manager can get that far in the game thinking a team would face 3 set pieces a game. It just doesn't add up to me.
We seemed to do neither last season...
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
I'm guessing there's truth but exaggeration there, maybe one session per week they didn't do work on it, maybe in more than one, but no chance we NEVER practiced set pieces ever
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
I seem to remember Martinez speaking to the press before he came us during which he stated he didn’t waste time practising free kicks or any dead ball situations because he felt it was unnecessary.
His big thing was accumulating as many passes as possible during periods of possession.
GlosBlue
Player Valuation: £25m
Between centre-backs and the goalie...
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £90m
I couldn't work a fax machine fwiw
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