He's brought up because Davek bring him up as some sort of strange barometer for success because he got 72 points with Moyes players. Most sane people know he was a disaster.
This is the problem right here. Most Sane people. Opinions nowadays all have to be so extreme, if it's not good, it's [Poor language removed]. If it is good, it's the best thing ever. It's so boring.
So rather than viewing things objectively based on their merits, you have decided that everything Martinez did was [Poor language removed], he is a clown (Coco, seriously?), a fraud, etc, that any success he had was luck or because of Moyes, and all failures were his and his alone, and anyone who believes otherwise is not only wrong in your opinion, but their own opinion is to be derided and belittled, and shouted down by the vocal majority.
And you wonder why people to defend their opinion.
I have highlighted the players who were clearly not good enough for us there. Add in besic being massively injury prone, Barry being past his best, Mori (who i like) not being the best defender, it does not do anything but be a detriment to the point you were making. the fact is, we could have gone to League 1 and signed 100 players for less than we sold those players for. It doesn't make them good signings for the club, the fact that so many of Martinez's signings have been sold/released in the past 12 months alone, McCarthy being another potential, besic probably be released or let go at the end of the contract, Eto'o not wanting to stay, Mori probably would have left if not injured, it means pretty much all but one player Martinez signed for us essentially were average signings either literally or in the eyes of our new manager.
You say you have issue with a point that I'm making and then use the same point to back up my original point. Spectacular.
My point is that these players, or the hundreds of others he "could've bought from the championship" weren't good enough. And Koeman has interestingly enough, come to the same conclusion.
But that is exactly the issue. Those were the restrictions that we were playing under. Those players were the players we could afford/attract at that time. And so a lot of them were gambles or punts that would have sell on value. That was the financial reality of Everton before Moshiri.
Now, we are in a much different place. We are able to go and spend upwards to £50m on 1 player that we want.
Comparing the 2 regimes is unfair at best.
