Martinez new Belgium head coach

[blue76]

To be fair manager before him was crap with them, Roberto might do well. And i hope he does

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[marsh]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Forgot he has never done well before ever has he

 

[carolinablue232]

Thinking about it some more it kind of makes sense. Bobby does well in cups and Belgium want to win cups. Still though...sorry Mirallas. Your Belgium days are over.

 

[Angle c]

Can we sell niasse and cleverly to belguim? That's a thing right?!

 

[summerisle]

lol First match is against Spain.

 

[R.Reddington]

Lukaku when he heard the news - 'That's bad'

 

[Huyton Layne]

From the BBC story

At Everton, Martinez managed Belgium internationals Marouane Fellaini, Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas.

Would have read better as

At Everton Martinez sold Belgium international Fellaini, barely played compatriot Mirallas and managed to finish 11th with Romelu Lukaku scoring 20+ goals two season running.

 

[degsy]

huge sighs of relief from Hull

 

[arbok]

Guess I'll get in line for the Belgium job then when Martinez is sacked in six months.

 

[ilikecheese]

From the BBC story

At Everton, Martinez managed Belgium internationals Marouane Fellaini, Romelu Lukaku and Kevin Mirallas.

Would have read better as

At Everton Martinez sold Belgium international Fellaini, barely played compatriot Mirallas and managed to finish 11th with Romelu Lukaku scoring 20+ goals two season running.

TBF in terms of finishing 11th he scored 10 and 18...not that I don't think all of his goals count. But our league results were only affected buy those goals that he scored.

ANYWAY...Fellaini and Mirallas can't be happy about this.

Managing international sides is not equal to managing a club side. Talent wise he's got one of the best sides in the world now. Will be interesting to see what happens.

 

[arbok]

International games are all about not losing. And Martinez loses a LOT!

 

[MikeH72]

People keep saying "he finished 11th twice" no he did not. When he left us we were 13th. We only finished 11th because we won our last game 3-0, we finished above Swansea on goal difference. If he'd been in charge for the final game we probably wouldn't have won and would have finished 13th or 14th. So he literally finished 5th, 11th and 13th.

 

[Han]

Wow, I thought it's April when I saw this news. Anyway , he has good record in cup games, with so many attack talents, he can play his beloved possession and passing games again.

 

[Cork Evertonian]

This Martinez guy is good.He bluffed his way into the Everton job and now he's bluffed his way into the Belgium job.lolDid he show them that fancy trick with the phone at the interview?The same trick that convinced Bill to hire him as Everton manager.lol Poor Kevin Mirrallas just when he thought he saw the back of Martinez only to now have the fraud as his international manager.God help the people of Belgium that's all i have to say.Poor Kev that his international career finished.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Hope he does well.