I can't speak for BlueWally, but I wouldn't be. I'd be two-faced, sing his name with plenty of gusto, but wouldn't be that arsed if he was to leave.
If I was in effective charge of this club, if I hadn't already, I'd be tasking a team with identifying, and maybe even sounding out possible replacements.
There's a lot of talk in the myriad of Martinez threads about the last two league seasons form, the 72 points in the first season, the possibility of winning a trophy, how we're often boss in attack, but clueless in defence, but most of that is either looking back, or only looking forward a few weeks.
If Moshiri is making money available this Summer then he'll want to be sure that there's noone obviously better than Martinez to spend that cash. If his team identifies someone who's an upgrade on Martinez who's available, then hanging onto Bobby, even after a cup win would make little sense.
Now I don't know much about managers outside the Premier League and whether there are significantly better options out there, but one thing I do know, the appointment of Martinez was made in what seemed to be a very amateurish fashion, and the remit then was just a safe pair of hands. That remit seems to have changed, so I'd be amazed if getting a replacement in hasn't, or isn't, being seriously considered.
Contradiction is a great choice of word for a thread about Martinez really.
Like you say, he's done some very good stuff, and some very bad stuff. He's won a trophy, and got relegated. He's got our highest ever points total in the PL but is more than likely leading us to 2 bottom half finishes for the first time in over a decade. We're pretty damn good going forward but pretty damn bad defending (in a way).
As i've said before, i think there are several reasons for us throwing away points like we have been. I don't want to say we are bad at defending as i don't think thats strictly true in an overall sense, we have all good defenders and have put in plenty of decent defensive displays in the last 2 (and 3) seasons.
Tim Howard was an issue, he was replaced and we somewhat improved but still threw away a 2 goal lead, Joel was an improvement but an even better keeper would make us a better team. It's pretty obvious from everything we've seen and read that Martinez places way more emphasis on attacking than defending, particularly defending set pieces and crosses. So we concede some goals that could be prevented by being more well drilled at defending those, sort that out and we'd be a better team.
We could get better defenders, do that and we'd be a better team.
But i think the most important issue which would see the biggest improvement is simply about tactics and the way we play. Defensive shape and discipline, holding your position, keeping it tight, always pressuring the opposition to win the ball back. All things we do at times but not often enough.
When we've got the ball the whole team seems to attack and it's led to us scoring a lot of very good goals. But when we lose the ball too many players are out of position, too many players don't press to win it back, too many players seem to have license to roam around the pitch and get forward with little regard for what happens if we lose the ball.
Espeically it seems at home when we have a lead. We just leave too many gaps and keep trying to score more goals rather than concentrate of not conceding any.
Its just a case of the managers beliefs, his philosophy if you will. It's pretty clear how Martinez wants his teams to play football so whilst he's proven me wrong on issues in the past, and hopefully will again, i just can't see him changing his core ethic of playing football and ever getting his teams to shut up shop to keep hold of a lead rather than try to score more.
And as you said in your last point, as i've also said before, if the people responsible for hiring and firing the manager think the current one isn't up the standard, and that there is an available replacement who they think would do a better job than they should make the change. Regardless of whether he wins a trophy or not.
