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TheFinnFan
Finners
Sauce?
Hangleton
Player Valuation: £25m
Almost everyone who makes a comment about it.
bullybeef
Player Valuation: £40m
Almost all media outlets and respected journos.
If this doesn't happen someone somewhere has been telling massive porkie pies.
Boss_Blue
I will find you and consensually bum you
lollollol
Professor Toffee
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
scratchnsurf
Player Valuation: £40m
I felt you were becoming hysterical and needed a slap.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Robles
Baines
Coleman
Barkley
McCarthy
Lukaku
Mirallas
Deulofeu
Davies
Holgate
Stones
Besic
Barry
...that's a team of players he had at his disposal who Koeman used on a regular basis (two of which he chose to either sell or loan out).
Any manager coming into a PL club would have been very very happy with a squad core of that quality.
Another inconvenient truth.
This deal is taking for ever but you know what its like you can never find a pen when you need one.
CahillsCornerFlag
Player Valuation: £70m
Rumour has it contract Dave only had one of those little ones you find in the bookies or Argos, and it ran out at Sand.
Eggsyblueskin
Player Valuation: £40m
Take Robles, Stones , McCarthy and Deulofeu out the equation, and you've got a decent argument.
AsiaAsia82
Player Valuation: £35m
I agree that there is a list of good players but most of those he inherited or where already on their way and those he did bring (Luakau aside - when he was actually after Ba) shows he didn't have a great policy of recruitment. If you list all the players he brought in, most aren't on this list. Martinez benefitted from Moyes defensive set up, had the luxury of a striker to the level Moyes never had. I think Martinez recruitment and fitness policies were both found out. Yes we had the ability to raise our game on specific occasions, ie in cups but we were a soft team, that good managers outplayed easily. Still early for Koeman, his back room team seem to getting to grips with the fitness, he just needs to update the squad to meet his way of playing. The recruitment looks better than Martinez, but faces a massive challenge of replacing Lukaku and to make us a more physical and competitive team. I for one am looking forward not backwards supporting Koeman.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Robles is better than Stekelenburg and as good as Pickford (a serious overpayment for him and we should and could have got better for cheaper. Also, there is no one better than Deulofeu who Koeman brought in up front. And Stones as a player outside the back four is a very talented player. McCarthy has been ribbed of his effectiveness by injury.
All told the point holds: Koeman inherited a very good core of first team players...which is why even this seasons and after three windows he'll still be using a fair few of them.
MACCA75
Player Valuation: £70m
So if the players were good, and the manager was good, why were we utter dross for Martinez last 2 years?
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