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Martinez new Belgium head coach

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davek said:
His record underlines that wherever it is it'll be a good appointment.

We'll see then whether the turn to a more direct form of play when in trouble (as he did against Japan) is taken with him into club football. All managers evolve, I suspect Martinez will too.
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We will certainly see if he is globally revered.
 
4737carlin said:
All because of great groundwork from Moyes, in fact if Moyes had of stayed just one more season I think he might of got us in the top 4 again that year, not 5th, dont ever forget all Martinez did was improve us by one place, just one
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No chance. He left us without any striker and would more than likely not have took Lukaku on.
 

4737carlin said:
A lot of the credit from what Belgium did at the world cup goes to Thierry Henry
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Henry was the glue that kept a talented yet fractured group together. Whatever direction the likes of KDB and Hazard took was through him. Probably why KDB had such a poor tournament must have been like herding cats in training.
 
Mickey said:
Where all shyster managers go, China or the Far East is my bet.
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Mickey said:
Henry was the glue that kept a talented yet fractured group together. Whatever direction the likes of KDB and Hazard took was through him. Probably why KDB had such a poor tournament must have been like herding cats in training.
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Best to just accept it mate. Roberto is back with a bang. You'll just end up making yourself bitter denying his football intelligence. It's not good for you.
 
Mickey said:
#beijingbobby
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I think he's happy with the history-making Belgian squad right now, though an inquiry from one of the top Italian or Spanish teams might tempt him.

His stock is sky high. He's the most rated ex-Everton manager since Kendall.
 

davek said:
I think he's happy with the history-making Belgian squad right now, though an inquiry from one of the top Italian or Spanish teams might tempt him.

His stock is sky high. He's the most rated ex-Everton manager since Kendall.
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Been away for a few days so just catching up on the words of wisdom expressed in this thread. Now, I don't mind @davek's noble defence of 'the maestro', even rather enjoying his Trump-like defiance of the facts, but I'm afraid in this case he has gone a step too far.

davek said:
Pardew did ok at Newcastle. But he's won nothing. He cant be placed in the same category as Martinez. It's like comparing Freddy and the Dreamers with Buffalo Springfield.
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How anyone can compare five working class heroes from the north of England, like Freddie and his motley band of Dreamers, with a bunch of drug-addled, pretentious hippies riding on the coattails of Bob Dylan is beyond me - it's as preposterous as comparing Howard Kendall or Pep with Roberto Martinez!

Here's the facts: UK top 10 hits - Freddie 4 BS 0, US top 10 hits - BS1 Freddie 1, US no1 - hits BS 0 Freddie 1

Only one winner there.

And don't just take my word for it. Here's one of my favourite writers, Lester Bangs, the @davek of rock critics:

"Freddie and the Dreamers had no masterpiece but a plentitude of talentless idiocy and enough persistence to get four albums and one film soundtrack released ... the Dreamers looked as thuggish as Freddie looked dippy ... Freddie and the Dreamers represented a triumph of rock as cretinous swill, and as such should be not only respected, but given their place in history."

Lester, as ever, says it all. Stick that up yer kaftans, Young and Stills!
 
davek said:
His record underlines that wherever it is it'll be a good appointment.

We'll see then whether the turn to a more direct form of play when in trouble (as he did against Japan) is taken with him into club football. All managers evolve, I suspect Martinez will too.
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Yes, full credit to Roberto for thumbing through his copy of the David Moyes Tactical Playbook, I mean Pamphlet, and lumping the ball in to Big Felli up front!

It was like Gulliver in the land of Lilliput, but I'm sure nobody watching the game even considered such a masterstroke. it takes a genius to come up with that.
 
With Thierry Henry, the real mastermind behind Belgiums third place finish leaving for Villa, can see things starting to unravel for Belgium
 

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