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Roberto Martinez

Rex

Biggus, you will hopefully have noticed that I have refrained from commenting on posting style for quite some time. It generally improves the climate on here if we all make that effort.

Roberto Martinez - he has no doubt made an impression as the Everton manager. I too like what I hear from him in interviews and articles. He comes across as a very like-able person with great knowledge and passion for football. I think he needs a couple of more seasons where he does well at Everton before a big club will be really interested.

kamikaze

he's a candidate but i'm still not convinced. there are a lot of managers who've done well with smaller clubs. does he have the ego and charisma to control the media and star players?

there are articles suggesting we have a shortlist of martinez, klopp and rodgers as potential wenger replacements.

JazzG

Definitely one of the most promising managers on the scene right now. Has taken a dull and boring Everton side and really transformed how they play. He comes across quite well on TV as well, you can tell he knows his stuff

kami, I don't think Wenger is leaving this summer but he will be gone in a few years. Definitely worth keeping a close eye on Martinez during that time

ludovicvanzis

Everton weren't dull or boring.

Armor

If he can spend money well then he'll have a huge career. Might not get to see much of that at Everton though and will be interesting to see what happens when they lose Lukaku. I like so much about him - the way his sides play, his personality, he is quite flexible tactically....could turn out to be one of the best managers of his generation imo

JazzG

ludovic van zis wrote:
Everton weren't dull or boring.

They were whenever I saw them

innervisionscm

He's a big favorite to succeed Wenger IMO. Which I'd be happy about.

Gazza M

i'll stand up and take notice if everton finish 4th ahead of us. that would be a huge achievement. finishing ahead of spurs and united is pretty good in and of itself.

Qwiss

JazzG wrote:
ludovic van zis wrote:
Everton weren't dull or boring.

They were whenever I saw them

90% of the time they were.

Tactics

They played outdated hoofball with occasional good passing from the likes of Pienaar, Arteta etc

Not too sure about Martinez, I'd go for Klopp or Simeone (at least no big team will spank us with him in charge, that is for sure).

ludovicvanzis

No, Everton played good stuff with their fullbacks.

They played with intensity and were frequently an enjoyable watch because of that. They had some half decent technical players too.

Qwiss

Tactics wrote:
They played outdated hoofball with occasional good passing from the likes of Pienaar, Arteta etc

Yep thats it. Its what Mark Hughes is doing now with Stoke.

Jed

Very good manager.

Claudius

how do you guys think he would've done at United this year?

Qwiss

Claudius wrote:
how do you guys think he would've done at United this year?

Not great but not the shambles that Moyes has come up with. Last summer would have to have been very different. There is a clearing out job needed at United and Moyes bottled that. He should have fucked some of the old dead wood last summer. Made a statement. Hard to know if Martinez would have done that but he wasn't afraid to let Fellaini go and he replaced him with a player more suited to his style for far less money.

Pepe LeFrits

Martinez appears to have approached his Everton team with something resembling a plan which you can hardly say about Moyes.

Whether United would have fared any better in acquiring the kind of midfield players Martinez likes than they did with acquiring players for Moyes isn't clear, but I can't imagine United would be any worse off with him at the helm.

Clrnc

The true test of Martinez will come next season when he experiences the UCL.

Biggus

Pepe LeFrits wrote:
Martinez appears to have approached his Everton team with something resembling a plan which you can hardly say about Moyes.

Whether United would have fared any better in acquiring the kind of midfield players Martinez likes than they did with acquiring players for Moyes isn't clear, but I can't imagine United would be any worse off with him at the helm.

Without wanting to take this off topic about Man Utd, but I think that Moyes was behind the cue ball from day 1, he was set up to fail.
You have the massive spectre of Fergie looking down on you from every wall and then the massive incestuous ego's like Giggs undermining you from below, ready to take over at his fall.
I don't think Martinez or indeed anyone could have succeeded.

Alfonso

Clrnc wrote:
The true test of Martinez will come next season when he experiences the UCL.

Eh? So you think Everton will finish above us?

Claudius

Clrnc wrote:
The true test of Martinez will come next season when he experiences the UCL.

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