This is what Barry said about last season. A terrible indictment of both Martinez and some players.
"For Barry, it was vital to restore order given the indiscipline that infected Everton’s game last season and led to Martínez’s dismissal, complete with a £10m pay-off. The veteran midfielder’s assessment of what has changed under Koeman is damning of both his former manager and team-mates, most of whom were spared the condemnation that descended on
the new head coach of Belgium.
“The standards of the players were, for me, slightly slipping last season, on and off the pitch,” the former England international said. “If standards are slipping off the pitch it can impact on your form on the pitch and the whole team was losing the level that is expected to compete at the top end of the Premier League. The manager doesn’t want to come across as some sort of headmaster but he has been quite keen to let anybody know if they go underneath the standards expected. That is good for everyone.
“Everything slipped last season, really: timekeeping, dress codes, training. The confidence and everything had gone and things were maybe going away from what was expected. Confidence had gone on the pitch, results weren’t going the right way and there was a lot of unrest with the fans. It is easy for players sometimes to get dragged along with that and all of a sudden they are being dragged along and the standards are slipping. I think you could tell from some of the performances last season that was creeping in.”
Nothing wrong with Koeman coming in and giving the players a kick up the jacksy, they deserved it. But they are professionals and should not allow their professionalism to slip. If Barry had taken the same attitude as some of the players last season, he wouldn't have made 60 Premier league appearances never mind 600.
Koeman has got us playing winning football at the moment, brought about by high energy athleticism with a fair smattering of good football at times. Winning football is what we all want to see.