I'm not really sure why so many people defend him, he played a major role in bringing in Silva and Allardyce, also the mess with Martinez if he'd wanted to sack him, he should of sacked him after we lost to the RS, not before the last game of the season, you might as well of kept him. Also, he's responsible for the DOF nonsense, where players are being bought who are clearly useless, for ridiculous fees. Ever since we decided to get one our signings have been awful, go back to old way, managers signing players.
When you spend the amount we've spent and end up with such a tiny squad, you have to blame the higher ups, even under Moyes we had Yakubu, Johnson, Vaughan and Anichebe, when Yak was injured he brought in Jo, he signed Howard, Baines, Jags, Lescott, Coleman, Arteta, Pienaar, Felaini, Neville, Cahill, Stones and Yobo. Martinez got Lukaku, and Deulofeu and you could at least see what he was trying to do, who knows how he would of done with money. Compare those signings to the rubbish we have now. We've had 4 years to replace Lukaku we still haven't we're an absolute joke.