LAToffee
Player Valuation: £20m
True but can't you let us enjoy ourselves for 5 minutes? God knows we are going to lose to D&R on Saturday.
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Roberto Martinez discussion
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Chang Elephant
Forum God
You have summoned the ghost of bizzaro ??
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
Oh ffs he's back
LAToffee
Player Valuation: £20m
Aye and he is shaking his gory locks at thee
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
...and it WAS the major difference. This team are nervous when TH is behind them. The rot sets into our play from him outward.
Chang Elephant
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An FFP thread will need to be started quickly to contain his spirit's faeces
Aar_the_Toffees
Player Valuation: £10m
Roberto had a dream,
To build a football team,
He had no money so he signed the players on loan!!!!!
We play from the back,
With Ross in attack,
The School of Science it's on its way back!!!!
This is our year. As you say @davek Roberto Martinez will start a new era in Everton folklore, starting with our first ever Capital One Cup. Come On You Blues.
To build a football team,
He had no money so he signed the players on loan!!!!!
We play from the back,
With Ross in attack,
The School of Science it's on its way back!!!!
This is our year. As you say @davek Roberto Martinez will start a new era in Everton folklore, starting with our first ever Capital One Cup. Come On You Blues.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He's the man with the plan.
Some managers just have *it*. Roberto is one of them. He's not arsed about the reputations of Mancini or Pellegrini or Klopp. He just has a plan and if it's carried out he'll do them.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
Exactly this mate. See my earlier post on Howard. It's not just his direct affect, but it's his indirect impact he has on the players in front of him, they look absolutely shot when he's playing.
It's bizarre really, as normally thats what older goalkeepers give you, the air of calmness through the team and defence. That has to be offset with a declining athletic ability and is the trade off. Howard is completely the opposite though.
The flip of that coin for us is that Robles looks a very competent goalkeeper to me. I know a lot of people don't want to admit that, presumably because he was from Wigan so must be rubbish. You can just see the players around him feel calm with him in goal. He has a natural authority about him. The derby he played in last year was as calm as I have been watching a derby, as I just felt we wouldn't concede. As soon as Howard returned that all went.
I hope to God Roberto punts Howard or I hate to say it, but for the first time ever I hope he picks up a minor injury. Had we have had Robles in goal all season I think we'd be in the top 6 now.
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
For all of the bad that can be thrown Martinez's way over the last few weeks, tonight was good. We genuinely fear nobody and if we sort the goalkeeping situation out we'll be right up there.
This is really Besic's moment and I have a sneaky feeling he may have a big say on the second half of our season. What a player that lad is.
This is really Besic's moment and I have a sneaky feeling he may have a big say on the second half of our season. What a player that lad is.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
This is now a double edged sword for me almost (almost). Howard will be picked again, but at least he cant screw up our cup chances. Roberto has fire-walled us from him in the KO competitions where we have a reasonable chance.
Agree 100% though: Robles is coming on leaps and bounds.
It's not obvious though was it?? And it wasn't the team everyone wanted all season as some have said.
No one has wanted Besic in the middle all season, there's been calls for McCarthy, Cleverley, Barkley or Gibson but very rarely anyone asking for Besic prior to the Spurs game.
Whilst everyone wanted Mirallas on the left not Cleverley, maybe a few decided he'd be ok tonight but in reality hardly anyone has been calling for him to play there all year.
As for Osman, if we hadn't won that game he'd have been slated for that sub as it didn't fit with the agenda if those behind there keypads regardless of how he played.
He got it right tonight and it's all part of the building process of his team.
Chang Elephant
Forum God
It WAS NOT.
You spin your tale as much as you like and see only what you want to see to drive your agenda across
It was the same solid defensive setup as against Spurs, with Howard in goal. They were compact and back behind the ball quickly, pressing when needed but allowing the opposition to have the ball in less dangerous areas. Hence why i brough up my orginal question.
But its ok, you crack on
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Perfect performance tonight (well almost). Can't have any gripes when we're playing like that. More of the same please Roberto. Such a shame we didn't get the 2 or 3 goal margin we deserved.
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