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Roberto Martinez Discussion - Including Live Poll (Poll Reset 1st May)

Martinez in or out?

  • In

  • Out

  • Getting splinters eating cheese on toast on the fence

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The Esk said:
Our aspirations are far higher than Klinsmann, I can assure you.
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"The name.....give me the name"

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catcherintherye said:
When I consider this season it does get harder an harder to justify. If we think back to the autumn when we had despatched Sunderland & Villa scoring 10 goals in the process (both had new managers and were doing ok) it looked like things had turned. We just never capitalised (for reasons I'll suggest below).

Back then we had a centre forward who was leading the scoring charts (and has continued too). A midfielder in Barkley who was not far off Mahrez in the scoring and assist charts (certainly not when you consider how much Mahrez has slowed down) and Deulofeu who had a similar number of assists to Ozil. While Lukaku's form has remained quite consistent, Barkley and Deulofeu have tailed off.

The question I though, imagine if we'd have kept those 3 playing well where we might be. Imagine having say, Harry Kane, Mahrez and Ozil in your team? All you would have to do is ensure the other 7 kept things tight and you would do well not to win the league, never mind not be competing or it. It would be astonishing the idea that you'd be in 14th. Yet this is where we found ourselves. All Leicester have done is essentially that, had Mahrez and Vardy and made sure everyone else kept things tight. The only difference we had was that we had an additional attacking talent over them!

You can see now though, complacency set in big time. Against Sunderland we stopped with 20 minutes to play. We could have scored 8-9 had we continued. Against Villa even more so, we stopped after an hour when w could have also scored 7/8. I never worried about it much at the time but it us built a complacency. I remember Alex Fergusan saying, the season City won the league with Aguero that he knew his side had lost it when they through away a two goal lead in a 4-4 game Everton. They still had a 6 point advantage at that point and went on to throw more points away, but he said he turned to his assistant when we equalised and said "that's it the leagues done". He qualified this by stating once complacency sets in you are finished.

Shortly after the two games I mention, we whacked Norwich and drew and were cruising against Bournemouth and drew. In both those games a top team, with a top manager would have won by a cricket score (particularly Norwich). The players to me though reflect the manager who is complacent. I don't think he or the players really know how to break free from that.

We went from having 3 of the most potent attacking weapon and just needing to be solid to ripping up the whole structure. It really is simple when you get to that point. You have star men, you then have 7 covering for them. Central defenders defend, fullbacks stay goalside and stop crosses, and midfielders cover preventing the opposition playing. That is what Leicester have done.

Yet we had a goalkeeper who was useless and a centre half who wanted to play like Maldini. Fullbacks who wanted to be wingers and midfield players who have not proved up to the job at covering the increasingly insurmountable holes that have appeared. We then changed the system to cover for this. Sometimes playing 3 centre halves. Sometimes dropping Deulofeu to play 2 more defensive wingers in the team etc. All because, from what I can see Martinez will not tell his team to be pragmatic at times.

It's very hard to justify that. He let complacency set in in the hope we would annihilate teams every week. It doesn't work like that. We had done the hard work as well. All that was needed was a bit if discipline from the team and we could have been in and around the top 4.
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enjoyed that read mate. A factor which, imo, you omitted in the Leicester comparison, is their pressing/fitness levels. They press/run for 94 minutes...we are knackered after 70....after not pressing at all
 

The Esk said:
Sorry, not teasing, but there are things that can be said and can't be said.

After twenty years of just having "make do" appointments and strategies, I think it is going to take a while for blues to realise the massive changes that are going to occur at Everton over the next 5 years.

We truly are going to be revolutionised - it's going to take time but it will happen. One of the first steps will be the appointment of a manager/coaching team that can live by those ambitions.
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Please do me the courtesy of confirming there is no one under consideration who carries around a 174 page dossier of football philosophy.

I'm done with philosophy in football. Someone who can point the way to the opponent's goal for attack and someone who can teach how to to legally hoof an opponent in midfield. To someone can teach how to hoof an opponent or the ball in defence and a goalkeeper with good eyesight, no fear and shovels for hands.

Thank you.

ps, you can pass this onwards and upwards as an aide de memoire to the powers that be if you want ;)
 
riddick said:
I honestly don't think I've seen this one before. That is magical. He really despises them. It's amazing!
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He proper doesnt like them... Headline in the mirror a while back

Mourinho exclusive: I'd manage Man United, Arsenal, even Spurs or Everton - but NEVER Liverpool

I need to take a chill and not talk about the possibility of him for a bit... it gets me too excited.

 

magicjuan said:
Please do me the courtesy of confirming there is no one under consideration who carries around a 174 page dossier of football philosophy.

I'm done with philosophy in football. Someone who can point the way to the opponent's goal for attack and someone who can teach how to to legally hoof an opponent in midfield. To someone can teach how to hoof an opponent or the ball in defence and a goalkeeper with good eyesight, no fear and shovels for hands.

Thank you.

ps, you can pass this onwards and upwards as an aide de memoire to the powers that be if you want ;)
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Done lol
 
The Esk said:
Sorry, not teasing, but there are things that can be said and can't be said.

After twenty years of just having "make do" appointments and strategies, I think it is going to take a while for blues to realise the massive changes that are going to occur at Everton over the next 5 years.

We truly are going to be revolutionised - it's going to take time but it will happen. One of the first steps will be the appointment of a manager/coaching team that can live by those ambitions.
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Officially excited after reading that
 
chazzle_dazzle said:
He proper doesnt like them... Headline in the mirror a while back

Mourinho exclusive: I'd manage Man United, Arsenal, even Spurs or Everton - but NEVER Liverpool

I need to take a chill and not talk about the possibility of him for a bit... it gets me too excited.
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Its on y'all !!!!!!!!!!!
 

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