davek
Player Valuation: £150m
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ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
It's true. 100%
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
@davek
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/31/roberto-martinez-belgium-manager-spain
Afew days after cutting ties with Marc Wilmots in the wake of dishonourable failure at Euro 2016, the Belgian Football Association took the unusual step of posting an advertisement on its website inviting applications for the role of manager of the national team. Inevitably hundreds of spoofers sent CVs that included fantastic achievements such as guiding Norway to World Cup glory in a computer game or beating Barcelona 10-0 on Fifa. When, in early August, Belgium revealed the identity of the successful candidate – Roberto Martínez – many people’s first reaction was to wonder whether that was also a wind-up.
In at least one respect Martínez seems like a badly wrong answer to Belgium’s problem. The affliction in recent years has been an inability to forge the most talented squad in their history into an organised and clear-thinking team. Martínez, whose reign will kick off with Thursday’s friendly against his native Spain, was sacked by Everton in May for a similar offence.
At Goodison Park he guided a squad he described as the most gifted in the club’s history to successive bottom-half finishes in the Premier League, campaigns during which he rarely found a balance between attack and defence, leaving Everton like charging soldiers continually tripped up by their own falling trousers. With that misadventure so fresh in the memory, it was a shock when Martínez was chosen, especially after word got out about inquiries from Marcello Lippi, who won the 2006 World Cup with Italy, and Louis van Gaal, who reached the 2014 World Cup semi-final with a Holland side less skilled than this Belgium one.
The list of candidates was not quite as sparkling as might be expected for a country ranked No2 in the world, owing to the lack of appeal of international management to top club managers and the smallness of the Belgian association’s budget compared with bigger but lower-ranked countries, the salary being less than £1m per year. Lippi and Van Gaal were too expensive. The three preferred Belgian options were unavailable, as Michel Preud’homme and Hein Vanhaezebrouck are contracted to Club Brugge and Gent respectively and Eric Gerets insists he is happily retired at 62.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/31/roberto-martinez-belgium-manager-spain
Afew days after cutting ties with Marc Wilmots in the wake of dishonourable failure at Euro 2016, the Belgian Football Association took the unusual step of posting an advertisement on its website inviting applications for the role of manager of the national team. Inevitably hundreds of spoofers sent CVs that included fantastic achievements such as guiding Norway to World Cup glory in a computer game or beating Barcelona 10-0 on Fifa. When, in early August, Belgium revealed the identity of the successful candidate – Roberto Martínez – many people’s first reaction was to wonder whether that was also a wind-up.
In at least one respect Martínez seems like a badly wrong answer to Belgium’s problem. The affliction in recent years has been an inability to forge the most talented squad in their history into an organised and clear-thinking team. Martínez, whose reign will kick off with Thursday’s friendly against his native Spain, was sacked by Everton in May for a similar offence.
At Goodison Park he guided a squad he described as the most gifted in the club’s history to successive bottom-half finishes in the Premier League, campaigns during which he rarely found a balance between attack and defence, leaving Everton like charging soldiers continually tripped up by their own falling trousers. With that misadventure so fresh in the memory, it was a shock when Martínez was chosen, especially after word got out about inquiries from Marcello Lippi, who won the 2006 World Cup with Italy, and Louis van Gaal, who reached the 2014 World Cup semi-final with a Holland side less skilled than this Belgium one.
The list of candidates was not quite as sparkling as might be expected for a country ranked No2 in the world, owing to the lack of appeal of international management to top club managers and the smallness of the Belgian association’s budget compared with bigger but lower-ranked countries, the salary being less than £1m per year. Lippi and Van Gaal were too expensive. The three preferred Belgian options were unavailable, as Michel Preud’homme and Hein Vanhaezebrouck are contracted to Club Brugge and Gent respectively and Eric Gerets insists he is happily retired at 62.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The Guardian? How would he know about it? Where's the two 'well respected Belgian journalists'?
DRM
Player Valuation: £10m
Or they both play together.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Are you suggesting you know more than the guardian?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Yes.
You need to take all this to the thread entitled...erm..."Martinez new manager of Belgium"...which seems an infinitely better fit than the Lukaku thread.
tlefc
Player Valuation: £750k
Would have been good if he'd had a defence last season.
Colemans comments say it all, Martinezs tactics meant that we attacked in blocks of 8.
No wonder Lukaku stopped trying near the end of the season, imagine scoring shed loads of goals and then seeing Mori air kick balls into the box.
tlefc
Player Valuation: £750k
I'm not even that arsed about the players that gave up at the end of last season. They were doing it for the greater good.
History will judge them as heroes.
They tried for the cup games, but phoned it in for the pursuit of 10th, the heroes we needed.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
History will judge them by how many medals they won. They've won and will win f.a. - because they are utter no marks who cheated their own fans.
tlefc
Player Valuation: £750k
We should replace the Dixie statue with one of Baines, Jagielka, Mirallas and Lukaku. 'The men who sacked El Fraudo'.
Never in the history of Everton was so much owed by so many to so few.
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