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

[Tubey]

Harsh on Mike Walker.

 

[magicjuan]

Think he's just un-tactic-ed himself out of a job there.

Head to Villa park, do not pass go, ffs don't collect your 200 gold dubloons....

 

[AaronTheBlue]

He just hasn't got the ability lads end of.

He isn't going to turn it around he isn't going to do anything special.

Without lukakus goals we would be in the relegation zone.

He is not made to be a manager at the top level in this country

 

[MikeH72]

So HK should be viewed only on his third tenure as manager?

At the time, yes of course he should have been. Imagine if someone on the board after the final day in 1998 said "hang on we can't sack Howard, what about all those trophies he won in the mid-80's?"

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

I have a feeling from his grim face today that he is sacked if everton loses today

Not a chance

 

[blulouie]

If he loses the semi maybe he will get an early boot.

Needs to be done now mate.
Something radical has to change.

 

[Allezfan]

So HK should be viewed only on his third tenure as manager?

When it came to deciding if he should keep the job, yes.

Would you have wanted kendall to have the job for life in 1998 on the basis of what he did in the 1980s?

 

[Groucho]

With the loss today his win % in all competitions this season is 45%...which is better than his overall win percentage at Everton.

I'm not trying to say that figures don't matter BUT, you can prove anything you like with stats.

Martinez found us in the top 6 and has made us bottom half. That to me is going backwards. It's not like he was left a terrible squad either.

Say what you like about cups, but he's not won anything for us yet. We're in a semi, not a final so we're far from winning it, and our league form is not good enough.

 

[blulouie]

Not a chance

Hope you are wrong .

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Signed who he knew at Wigan - Alcaraz, McCarthy, Kone, Robles. Cleverley.

Signed who was high profile/well known, Lukaku. Eto'o. Barry. Besic (on the back of MOTM World Cup vs Messi). Deulofeu - Barca prodigy. Lennon...

Signed who was scouted? Niasse. McGeady. Mori.

Have I missed anyone? Holgate, Galloway, Rodriquez. Byrne. Stanek?

Do I trust him to deliver a return on any potential Moshiri early enthusiasm? Meh.

 

[MikeH72]

Howard Kendall took over a relegation threatened side.

Martinez had one of our best squads since the 80s glory days.

There's no comparison. Martinez is failing badly, to put it mildly.

He's failing badly because he's a complete failure of a manager. This club is playing a very dangerous game if they're thinking of giving him another season. He'll be the death of us

 

[snipellis11]

I honestly can't understand why we are accepting this, worse clubs than us would had sacked there manager if they had been on the form/ had the season we have had.

 

[tim cahill]

He's not known as El Fraudo for nothing. There's no smoke without fire.

 

[Albertini78]

He just hasn't got the ability lads end of.

He isn't going to turn it around he isn't going to do anything special.

Without lukakus goals we would be in the relegation zone.

He is not made to be a manager at the top level in this country

I don't get it when people say this might as well say Spurs without Harry Kane would be midtable, Leicester without Mahrez would be bottom half and so on

 

[TGW89]

RM, please resign. You are an absolute FORGERY of a Premier League manager!