Martinez new Belgium head coach

Kev The Rat · February 5, 2017

the fraud said our defensive frailties are still there??? only 3 teams have conceded fewer than us all season you clown!

bicycleheader · February 5, 2017

Kev The Rat said:
the fraud said our defensive frailties are still there??? only 3 teams have conceded fewer than us all season you clown!

they are though. we still are too weak on defending the wide areas, stopping crosses, dealing with set pieces and we still have plenty of individual errors happening. stats are good, but from watching the games I dont think we are defensively as good as that stat implies. Im sure the new boss will continue working on it.

GwladysBlue · February 5, 2017

Watching Goals on Sunday one thing comes to mind and that is: Thank you,
Moshiri.

Kenwright said of him "What a manager", a mere two months later he was sacked.

That fat fraud would have kept him as manager and we would be scrapping it out for our lives right now.

EFCPaul · February 5, 2017

Again he's saying Niasse was the best player in the Russian league. That is an outright lie, the man is still refusing to take any responsibility.

hktoffee · February 5, 2017

Amw79 said:
Ha ha. He was banging on about being in 2 semi finals last year. Which won us the square root of f all.

No dignity whatsoever.

MikeH72 · February 5, 2017

Lol

i started duncan chant · February 5, 2017

Never mind the two semis what about the two 4-0 embarrassing defeats at the pit you clown. Total joke of a manager !!!!

davek · February 5, 2017

...meanwhile Martinez marches on to Russia.

Gwladysstreetlad · February 5, 2017

davek said:
...meanwhile Martinez marches on to Russia.

Only for his side to get bummed once it arrives.

Ashtonian · February 5, 2017

davek said:
...meanwhile Martinez marches on to Russia.

He has fantastic experience in Russia mate.
Last time he went he came back with niasse and didn't want to play him himself!

davek · February 5, 2017

Ashtonian said:
He has fantastic experience in Russia mate.
Last time he went he came back with niasse and didn't want to play him himself!

Well they dont just hand a major international football post to any old divvy do they?

Roberto will be in the biggest tournament in the world next summer and hopefully Lukaku can step up and take them a long way. That would be a feather in the cap of our club having an ex-manager and a few players involved. If Lukaku is still here like.

madkiwi · February 5, 2017

davek said:
...meanwhile Martinez marches on to Russia.

Can think of a couple of leaders who made that mistake...

MikeH72 · February 5, 2017

Gwladysstreetlad said:
Only for his side to get bummed once it arrives.

Doesn't matter mate. Getting the world's top team to the last 32 of a tournament is the real achievement. Come back when Koeman's done that, pfffft.

Ashtonian · February 5, 2017

davek said:
Well they dont just hand a major international football post to any old divvy do they?

Roberto will be in the biggest tournament in the world next summer and hopefully Lukaku can step up and take them a long way. That would be a feather in the cap of our club having an ex-manager and a few players involved. If Lukaku is still here like.

They do when they are skint and hope to ride out the next campaign based on how good their players are rather than how good the coach is.

I remember another country doing that not too long ago, shame all they achieved was being the best in a generation who failed at tournament level...

Cork Evertonian · February 6, 2017

Martinez in talking BS shocker.Great comment here from Stevemol on the Echo's comments section.

Unfortunately Roberto, getting knocked out in two semi-finals is not success and it's not "close to silverware". Close to silverware is being in the final with the match still to play. Our league position at the end of last season was the best indicator of where we were success-wise. You didn't fool the fans with your Klopp-style "we had all the possession", "pressing game", "playing from the back" comments. You let standards at the club slip with your laissez faire management style and the players had a hard time accepting the harsh reality of Ronald Koeman's observations ie they weren't fit and some of them weren't up to the job. Every player that you left for Ronald that is still at the club, is fitter, keener to play and prouder to be an Everton player and that makes success more likely. Funes Mori and Williams are slow and are clearly short term, but as a team we can now defend corners and score from them - two facets of the game that you didn't seem to consider important.