MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
That's one of my favourite day vek moments for sure
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That's one of my favourite day vek moments for sure
hktoffee
Birds of a feather flock together
Compare their PL records. Koeman must have some negative net spend at Soton as well.
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Nah still nowhere near the top for me.
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He genuinely makes me sit here pissing myself at a computer screen
That's a valid point actually
The gulf between the top 6-7 of the Premier League and the rest of the League in the 13/14 season compared to now was much bigger. A lot of teams have now strengthened considerably, so the gulf isn't as big as it once was. Once the other sides strengthened, Martinez never got close to 72 points again, which I think is very telling
You really can chalk up that initial good season to us having an element of surprise in what was a pretty poor league. The fact Liverpool almost won the whole thing by having one good player really says it all. Once the other teams got stronger and Martinez was tactically sussed out, it was curtains
Doesn't change the good he did, but it does mitigate it somewhat
Nah still nowhere near the top for me.
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I doubt for a second he was being even remotely sincere when he wrote that mate, if we're being fair to him
I doubt for a second he wasn't on a wind up with any of his posts, the ones in this thread included.
I agree
But it doesn't seem to stop people arguing with him over countless pages
Face it, he's the best on the inter webs at what he does
You could even say he was........"phenomenal"
Shut up Michael.
You are merely feeding his WUMerous rampage
RFUS
Anustart
What's the obsession with points? Points are not a good barometer as the league shifts every season. 3 teams leave and 3 new ones join. Countless players are bought and sold. Managers come and go. There are seasons when 61 points gets you 4th and seasons where it gets you 8th. Seasons where 70 odd wins the title and others where it doesn't even let you crack the top 4.
All that matters is league position. Every team plays every other team twice, and the table doesn't lie. If you're 4th you're the 4th best, whether it's 61 points or 80.
If Koeman can get top 7 or 8 it's a step forward. Whether that's 70 points or 50 I'm not bothered.
What's your point?
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
I think it was.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/02/oumar-niasse-romelu-lukaku-everton
Oumar Niasse not signed to be Romelu Lukaku’s back-up, says Martínez
Roberto Martínez has insisted Oumar Niasse is not a back-up option for Romelu Lukaku followingEverton’s late move for the Senegal international striker.
Everton made the second most expensive signing on deadline day, the third in their history, when paying £13.5m for the 25-year-old who has scored 13 goals in 23 games for Lokomotiv Moscow this season. Martínez admits Everton had to move fast for Niasse, who had attracted interest from Chelsea, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and several Premier League sides, and also release two first-team players – Steven Naismith and Aiden McGeady – to accommodate the new signing.
But the Everton manager denied Niasse has been brought to Goodison Park as cover for Lukaku, who has scored 19 goals in all competitions this season and been linked with a summer move to a Champions League club.
“We’re very pleased because he’s someone we have been tracking for a while,” Martínez explained. “The first time we saw Oumar was in the first week of September. Since then we have been trying to find out about his character. He has a specific family situation as his wife is from England, from the north-west, and he’s been following our team and how we play and had a real conscious desire to join us.
“When we saw he was available we moved very quickly, we moved two from the squad and brought someone at 25 who’s been successful in two European leagues [Turkey and Russia] with a real hunger who will fit in well into the dressing room.
“He’s not back-up for anyone. He has his own ability, his own conditions and he is someone who can stretch defenders. He can cope with the physical nature of the Premier League but his last game in the Russian league was 10 December and he’s been on a mid-season break so we need to get him back to fitness as fast as we can.
“He can open space and has a real intelligent way of combining for others. He can fit in different formations – on his own, with another, out wide. He’s flexible and at 25 it’s the perfect moment for coming to the Premier League.”
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