Fully respect that youre entitled to your opinion, but it doesn't work like that in real life, and real football..there is too much, financially, at stake and someone rocking the boat will always be 'dealt with'. There is no need for the manager to state that this will happen, its taken as the norm. Just a bollocking and a handshake gives Mirallas the freedom to act like Billy Big Balls again and it will get nipped in the bud now. He will be gone. Changing a system, and acquiring the best players to play within that system, is not a one or two season job unless you are buying absolute top quality, which is still relatively unaffordable for Everton. At the same time the manager has to balance performance with change, and there are bound to be times when a series of below par performances takes place. Martinez needs at least another season to get the system and its variations in place, and to acquire, over the next 3 or 4 windows, the right players to operate the system and its variances. Barry will not be a regular beyond this season, Besic will and I see Lukaku, Coleman, Oviedo, maybe Garbutt and maybe Baines, Naismith and a few others surviving beyond the end of next season. If it hasn't worked out for Roberto by then, the managers position will need to be considered.
Only one person was responsible for the penalty debacle the other night..and that was Mirallas for his complete lack of professionalism, complete lack of any sense of playing for the team, complete lack of respect for his team mates, and incidentally for the supporters of our historic and reputable club, and complete disregard for the manager who has guided him and persisted with him despite his continuing lack of fitness and inability to last 90 minutes. I don't care how difficult he 'might' be to replace like for like, but I for one don't particularly want to see him in an Everton shirt again...and in over 65 years supporting Everton, I have never thought that about any other player.
