Arouna Kone

Chang Elephant · December 19, 2015

This years Eto/Naismith, one or two decent performances and El Manuel won't drop him for the next twenty

chippy1722 · December 19, 2015

Only good displays I have seen have been as sub. Shouldn't be starting. I don't understand why we play with a right winger but never play with a left one, we play Barkley, Kone or Cleverley there and it never works.

tim cahill · December 19, 2015

He looked scared to shoot today. Mirallas showed why he should start ahead of him with his goal. There's no way Kone would have finished that.

Mikey_Fitzgerald · December 19, 2015

tim cahill said:
He looked scared to shoot today. Mirallas showed why he should start ahead of him with his goal. There's no way Kone would have finished that.

I agree

Kone works hard, but I think Mirallas is the better player and I'd pick him ahead of Kone

mitchell1996 · December 19, 2015

hes basically done a naismith
scores a hat trick then just goes back to being gash again
mirallas an lennon must be fuming

Bob Elstone · December 20, 2015

Woeful performance yesterday. Needs dropping and isn't good enough.

chicoazul · December 20, 2015

Martinez has weird fetishes for who he starts on the left.

Last season it was Eto'o, Barkley and Naismith. This season it's Kone.

Deggo · December 20, 2015

Said it before this fella has had our pants down and one hattrick against a poor poor team and a couple of sporadic goals will never repay what he's taken from us

Zatara · December 20, 2015

He couldnt have done any worse than i expected

However he's no where near good enough to be a starter in a side aiming for europe...Martinez needs to upgrade.

Groucho said:
He's doing a good job currently.

He's never gonna win best player awards but he's had a hat trick and Lukaku seems to enjoy him being on the field.

Whoever you are, I can guarantee that he's done better than you thought he would this season.

TheOldLady · December 20, 2015

Seeing him in an Everton shirt makes me puke

bluestevon · December 20, 2015

Zatara said:
He couldnt have done any worse than i expected

However he's no where near good enough to be a starter in a side aiming for europe...Martinez needs to upgrade.

Zat Zat Zat...

You don't ditch a cb based on his first season and a handful of games mate, seriously he hasn't been great but he hasn't been exactly Lovren bad either.

IF we as a club would have ditched any cb who had a rough first dozen or so game for us, then Ratcliffe never would have lasted with us, neither would Stones, neither would Jagielka, all 3 of them made mistakes early on - Ratcliffe was given a massive amount of criticism in his early days for being terrible. Those 3 are just off the top of my head, pretty sure we have had a lot of cb's who struggle early doors with us - as most teams have had.

United with Smalling, City currently with Ottamendi another couple of examples

Zatara · December 20, 2015

Kone mate!

bluestevon said:
Zat Zat Zat...

You don't ditch a cb based on his first season and a handful of games mate, seriously he hasn't been great but he hasn't been exactly Lovren bad either.

IF we as a club would have ditched any cb who had a rough first dozen or so game for us, then Ratcliffe never would have lasted with us, neither would Stones, neither would Jagielka, all 3 of them made mistakes early on - Ratcliffe was given a massive amount of criticism in his early days for being terrible. Those 3 are just off the top of my head, pretty sure we have had a lot of cb's who struggle early doors with us - as most teams have had.

United with Smalling, City currently with Ottamendi another couple of examples