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Martinez new Belgium head coach

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GrandOldTeam said:
Record fees for Wigan.

The money he spent, wasted terribly at both Everton and Wigan, His transfer "hit rate" is abysmal, just look at that signings. Christ the guy opted for Funes Mori over Van Dijk
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His spending overall: go and check what we got from players brought in and then sold on. Not just Lukaku. Cleverley on a free and sold for £8M.

D'you think we'll see that profit on Koeman signings?
 
davek said:
Did he?

As said many times, I was told it wasn't his idea.
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Oh so you're happy to give him credit for the good signings like Lukaku (despite the fact that it's well known that Rom wasn't even Bobbys first choice) and Barry but not for the bad ones like Niasse? Showing yourself up as a hypocrite again mate, he either takes credit for the lot or none at all.
 
GrandOldTeam said:
Yeah.

Always laugh the most at Ivan Ramis. £5.4m in 2012 for Wigan. Wow. Wasn't long before his contract was cancelled by mutual consent.

Boselli is another corker. 'Wigan fans voted Boselli as the club's worst ever foreigner' - Bobby paid a club-record fee for him, the striker left having never scored a league goal for them.

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That list...

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davek said:
His spending overall: go and check what we got from players brought in and then sold on. Not just Lukaku. Cleverley on a free and sold for £8M.

D'you think we'll see that profit on Koeman signings?
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lol

Inheriting a team of world class international footballers and baby sitting them in semi retirement and cup football is one thing.

Managing a premier league football club is another. He relegated one, and set ours on a path we're still suffering from now. Niasse, McCarthy, Mori, Kone... christ. Big money at the time for Everton.


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davek said:
His spending overall: go and check what we got from players brought in and then sold on. Not just Lukaku. Cleverley on a free and sold for £8M.

D'you think we'll see that profit on Koeman signings?
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Some of them, if we wanted to sell, sure. We'd get big money for Siggerson, Kane and Pickford (I'm not claiming he'd be worth it BTW).

And we'd get decent money for Lookman, Vlasic, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Onyekuru and DCL.....
 
BigMick said:
With Big Fat Ron's lads winning AGAIN last night and Southgate on the brink of a knighthood, it's funny how this international football makes all these club failures look like geniuses. Sam Allardicci should give it a go.
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He`s next in line for the Belgium job, once Martinez has finished sifting through all the job offers from the Premier League and La Liga.
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
Oh so you're happy to give him credit for the good signings like Lukaku (despite the fact that it's well known that Rom wasn't even Bobbys first choice) and Barry but not for the bad ones like Niasse? Showing yourself up as a hypocrite again mate, he either takes credit for the lot or none at all.
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No, I'm happy to say he signed some rubbish. He did. Kone was a terrible signing. I'm just saying what I heard from within the club. As I said at the time: take it or leave it.
 

Just a reminder Bobby needed to not concede 4 to make a semi final and he conceded 5. And he extended his semi final losing streak last summer. Still a fraud.
 
GrandOldTeam said:
lol

Inheriting a team of world class international footballers and baby sitting them in semi retirement and cup football is one thing.

Managing a premier league football club is another. He relegated one, and set ours on a path we're still suffering from now. Niasse, McCarthy, Mori, Kone... christ. Big money at the time for Everton.


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Pot-atoes / pot-a-toes.

You can either accentuate his time at Wigan as one of relegation, or the best period on the club's history they would never have got to in a million years with any other manager and securing their one and only trophy; similarly, you can say that he gave us our best ever footballing season since HKI 30 years earlier with a points tally that surpassed any season in the PL era (and will, sadly, not be bettered for another decade or more), or you can say that he ran out of ideas and lost a fairly decent bunch of players due to stubbornness and turned us into mid-table fodder.

Let's put it this way: there'll be no shortage of takers for Roberto in the PL or abroad in the top flight. Clubs will take a chance that a talented manager can do them a good job...then they can get shut. That's the way of the industry.
 
davek said:
Pot-atoes / pot-a-toes.

You can either accentuate his time at Wigan as one of relegation, or the best period on the club's history they would never have got to in a million years with any other manager and securing their one and only trophy; similarly, you can say that he gave us our best ever footballing season since HKI 30 years earlier with a points tally that surpassed any season in the PL era (and will, sadly, not be bettered for another decade or more), or you sytate that he ran out of ideas and lost a fairly decent bunch of players due to stubbornness and turned us into mid-table fodder.

Let's put it this way: there'll be no shortage of takers for Roberto in the PL or abroad in the top flight.
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We'll see.

He'd be a fool to leave semi-retirement because he's perfectly suited for international football because of this;

toffee-L said:
If he's smart he will stay in international football for the rest of his career.

He doesn't have to make any transfers, the players aren't with him long enough to realise he's a tool and all the players he has at his disposal receive top notch coaching year round from managers that are much better than him.

What a dream job he's got going on there.
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Gwladysstreetlad said:
Some of them, if we wanted to sell, sure. We'd get big money for Siggerson, Kane and Pickford (I'm not claiming he'd be worth it BTW).

And we'd get decent money for Lookman, Vlasic, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Onyekuru and DCL.....
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You'd never get over £200M back. Never.
 

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