Correct. Martinez wasted our funds on Cleverley, Alcaraz, Niasse. Everton are rebuilding now, not all Bobby's fault but he put a decent shift in.
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Oh goody, more knives in the back of our manager
Stay classy
Stay classy
PC Principal
Player Valuation: £100k
His first season has been pretty unspectacular tbf. I do think he should be given more time though.
ianefc
Player Valuation: £70m
Exactly
Its great isnt it, they have all got themselves beat into a little frenzy, but Ronny will unveil Ronnys army soon.
I can hear it now, "But, but he only won the league cos we spent 300m".
Everton, Everton, Everton.
Pfft, buying the league, who cares!
"but, but".
Looked at some defence stats for Koeman, and thought this was an interesting comparison. We know that Goals against is marginally better than last season, but for a couple of years we've had a serious issue with causing our own problems, and making defensive mistakes.
I think this may be what Koeman saw as the first thing to sort - getting the stupid errors out of our game.
Compare the defensive errors and errors leading to goals stats over last 3 1/2 years.
Now some of that has come from being less risky at the back, and taking less chances on the ball - hence the increase in long balls, which for me is not a tactic in terms of how we intend to attack, but more a consequence of ensuring we don't make the same stupid mistakes at the back and knowing when to clear your lines.
This is still a work in progress, but this change in the type of goal we concede, and not gifting teams goals, is definitely a positive and something to build on.
I think this may be what Koeman saw as the first thing to sort - getting the stupid errors out of our game.
Compare the defensive errors and errors leading to goals stats over last 3 1/2 years.
Now some of that has come from being less risky at the back, and taking less chances on the ball - hence the increase in long balls, which for me is not a tactic in terms of how we intend to attack, but more a consequence of ensuring we don't make the same stupid mistakes at the back and knowing when to clear your lines.
This is still a work in progress, but this change in the type of goal we concede, and not gifting teams goals, is definitely a positive and something to build on.
I just want to see us win things, playing boss teams in the champions league, the only way we can do it is by spending massive wedges, my conscious is okay with that. Also, I wonder if those Man City fans would go back in time to where they where before the big bucks came and took them over...
sheedys left foot
Player Valuation: £10m
That's the point though, judge him on performance after he's spent all the money.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Where do you go from here mate, I mean you have laid bare your utter contempt and disregard for our current managers career and ,perhaps more importantly, his character. You have virtually declared a blood feud
. How can any criticism you make now be taken seriously knowing as we do it is set in a spirit of such vitriolic hatred ? You have continually peddled half truths and exaggerated perceived failings to bolster your increasingly biased diatribe. Where is the balance?Incidentally our mutually preferred managerial appointment, Lucien Favre, has achieved far less than Koeman. How would we have defended that at this stage in the season I wonder ?
Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
If we get into Europa, you can bet a certain someone will be bashing Koeman for not getting Champions League instead...
Zezti
Player Valuation: £70m
Good stuff, but its not just about being less risky, you could also put that down to having a better defensive midfield protecting our back 4. They'd be under a lot more pressure and make more mistakes if it wasn't for Gana breaking things up before it gets to them. That's where Koeman and el Bob really differ - el Bob wanted his deep midfield to join the attack whereas Koeman wants them to be, well, defensive midfielders...
DrEFC
Player Valuation: £40m
Some won't be arsed because they don't go the match home or away, but I loved some of our European games. Koeman looks like he wants to build a fast, strong, technical side- that would railroad most Europa sides.
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