Martinez new Belgium head coach

[COYBL25]

You would hope they had the foresight to insert a clause in his contract to the effect that they could get rid at any given moment ?

 

[Tubey]

Love how they hadn't lost a game for something like three years at home.

Martinez comes in and they lose hopelessly immediately.

 

[MikeH72]

Martinez had good points. I really think he had a good idea about how to crack the top 4 without large funding. He absolutely improved our youth development (or maybe Rhino did, but Martinez certainly didn't get in the way of that), and clearly had a vision for growing a team from young, raw players.

It's a good idea.

Too bad it would require a manager with an ounce of tactical awareness.

Poor Belgium. Stuck with the bad bits.

Don't feel sorry for them, how stupid do you have to be to appoint someone who's been pretty much nothing but a failure for the best part of 7 years? It's like they didn't even check his CV, just listened to the utter sewage he chatted in his interview and fell for him. Sounds familiar

 

[daza_1973]

All I can say is phénoménal

 

[Garrick]

I mean, it was Spain like, hardly an embarassing loss

Belgium do fancy themselves as a top 5 side though.

(Overrated and less than the sum of their parts, I'd say, but my opinion doesn't change their perception.)

 

[Professor Toffee]

Belgium do fancy themselves as a top 5 side though.

(Overrated and less than the sum of their parts, I'd say, but my opinion doesn't change their perception.)

He'll soon put manners on them

 

[ianefc]

 

[COYBL25]

Much like what's going on in his head

 

[Blues Harp]

Yeah but 72 points ha Ha Ha !!

 

[davek]

 

[roydo]

How we hoped.

 

[davek]

How we hoped.

"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot"

 

[Connor]

Unfortunately, it wasn't to be.

Wouldn't have passed an OFSTED test in the last 12 months.

 

[deipnosophist]

"Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot"

lol...on any subject Martinez-related, you Comelot.

 

[nsno-chris]

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Can't wait till he tells the world press that goals from set pieces don't count