The Spanish Fraudster Roberto Martinez – Enough is Enough
Enough is enough.
Everton are poised to play in the FA cup semi final with our best chance in 20 years to win a trophy, brilliant, yes? and yet there is a feel that we aren’t as excited as we should be, and I believe a certain Martinez is behind that.
I’m writing this after watching Everton slump to yet another toothless performance against a below average Manchester United team.
This is what we are slowly become used to with Martinez, defeat. Defeat followed by a post-match interview saying how well we played, we must all be watching different games unfold to what Bobby is.
When Martinez first signed his interviews were a breath and a fresh air, after a decade of watching Moyes frown and scowl his way through them, now we had a young, keen, vibrant man in charge. We all know how well he did in his first year, then not long after that the cracks have started to show. Players getting frustrated with his tactical ineptitude Eto’o ( yes we actually had him here for a few games ) Distin and most recently Baines have all been dropped, the first two sold, after allegedly challenging him. His interviews have gone from being fresh and bright to repetitive and anything but phenomenal. Its same dross week in week out, where I used listen attentively, I now cringe at his every word, to the point I now have to read his interviews afterwards rather than watch just to be able to stomach them and get team news.
For a second season in a row we are on course to finish in the bottom half of the table. This isn’t acceptable for a squad or a club like us, we have potentially 3 genuine world class players at our club and he can’t do anything with them.
He got the job off the back of a FA cup win with Wigan, with whom he also got relegated I may add. Apart from the FA cup win, (yes great achievement but league is bread and butter) his CV will just say relegation, he got the job at our great club off the back of an 8 game cup run. What about the 38 games he had to keep them up, why weren’t they taken into account? You can’t fluke a league position, you can get lucky over a cup run, i.e. the captain of a team can play a back pass in a QF and play an opponent in on goal.
The very appointment it’s self is a mystery when you think of it. (I wanted the Porto manager) Not many managers could get a club relegated and still get a job with a top 6 side.
I fear the lack of scrutiny over league positions past and present will be our downfall this summer.
Bare with me, if we were to win the FA cup and believe me as a supporter who doesn’t remember ’95 very well if at all, ( I was 6) there’s nothing more I’d like to see than Jags holding the trophy aloft, I feel there will be a catch to it if we do.
We win the cup and it will be a great day out for the fans and a trophy we’ve been waiting 20 years for, but then we would have to put up with RM for I think another 6-12 months at the very least, and who’s to say how much further into trouble he’d take us in that time.
I genuinely believe even if he wins the cup, the league position (12th at the time of writing) should be enough to see him out the door, it would be at other big clubs. Chelsea certainly don’t mess about, neither do city.
Now the real danger if he stays is that he would be in charge of the reported £150m war chest this summer, yes some of his buys have been great but for every Lukaku there’s a Kone, for every Deulofeu there’s a Niasse (I tried to reserve judgment but after the Man U game I can’t) and for every Barry there’s Alcaraz. I don’t think this summer can be underestimated in just how important it is for our future, we have the money to really lay down foundations for the future, buy sensibly in key positions and really put a statement out. We have the money to attract top players, but would they want to play for RM. I doubt it, as our current crop of players don’t even look like they want to play for him. I know for a fact he’s not rated as a manager by some players in the current squad, you think that won’t get passed around on international duties for example, Players and agents talk.
About those that don’t rate him in the current squad and may want away, a new manager and new approach around Finch Farm could see those players be willing to stay as we enter a new era for the club.
For any Evertonian who tries to defend him, last season we finished 11th, we are currently 12th. Surely those stats alone are alarming enough for any supporter, how can you defend that? People will point to the Europa league for last seasons downfall, I’ll point to Spurs this season who got as far as we did and are currently 2nd.
Even idiotic pundits like Merson and Souness can see what’s happening and I can’t believe I’m agreeing with those two!
What’s the number for those banners again??
That breath of fresh air has turned stale.
Cup or no cup, he must go.
COYB
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Spot on. He’s turning good players bad. We actually need a major rebuild. We need to let go and replace Peanuts, Ossie, Kone, Gibbo, Hibbo, Howard, McGeady and are likely to lose one or all of Stones, Lukaku, Barkley and Mirallas. For a change the money will be there, but I no longer trust Martinez with this “phenomenal” opportunity to re-engineer EFC.
Great article. For me it comes down to what you think Everton should be. Should they be a team that challenges the Top 4 or 5 every year? Are they a big boy in the fight? If so, then 12th is unacceptable and you can’t keep going with a manager who is average at best. To be elite you have to have an elite leader, and RM isn’t that. However, if fans and the board are satisfied with “hoping” for a good year every year, then by all means keep RM. I’d just prefer to think of my team as one that has an insatiable hunger for the top spots.
Martinez is the very embodiment of the Peter Principle. The one that says that if you’re really great at one thing, you’re more likely to get promoted to a position even though the task is way over your head. RM is great at pointing out talent (although jury’s a bit out on Niasse), and putting together a talented team can get a smaller club to make a good run in the champions league. And that’s why he was an attractive managerial candidate. However, the task of taking a classic premier team to the top of the table every year requires a bit more than talent acquisition. RM doesn’t understand that. Or maybe he does now and is just hoping no one on the board notices.
absolutely spot on and i was one of the few who said from the start that i didn’t think he was good enough for the job and here we are 3 years later and with a better squad; we are a worse team and this needs to be sorted asap! at least under moyes we could defend,we were hard to beat and could score goals from and defend corners and set pieces? it’s turned into a shambles this season and i expect to see more players leave if he stays in charge!?
I did not want him from day one Wigan had been relegated . Watching the scores come Wigan used to get tanked 6. 7. 8. On regular basis ok they won the cup great . People tend to forget the start of his first season we were awful we then after Xmas went on a run which saw us shoot up the table . Since then crap two seasons of inconstancy .