martinez

Right some very good points made here but I ultimately have chosen anti…although that’s a bit harsh, more undecided but leading more towards not in favour.

Everyone will have different opinions and arguements on the situation, I for one have agreed with a lot of the pro points made previously there however my points against would be as follows;

I like the approach Martinez brings and the style of football he tries to play however you have to realise your limitations and you got to realise that maybe your squad aren’t quite there yet to play this type of football. We’ve seen it a few times this season where our back 4 have been trying to play it around in the backs and it ended up getting us into trouble. We can just be so casual sometimes, but for the back 4 we have we should be encouraging them to get good timely challenges in, play the simple ball to your midfielders, keep focus and get the clearances. They should not be putting themselves under pressure under silly mistakes and I just feel its due to the style of football we are trying to play and our players just simply ain’t to that style yet.

My next point is, for those of you saying about him cutting costs in the business I have to say yes he has, BUT! in doing so he has made some woeful decisions that have cost us big to. There have been a few poor purchases made, Di Santo and Boselli to name a few and they have cost the club big in my opinion. To be honest i’d sooner pay a proven good player in the premier league a bit more in wages than going paying 7 or 8 million on players that haven’t really brought any thing this season. Just my opinion though.

My next point is, sometimes I just feel he makes the wrong decisions tactically. We’ve knocked out 15 or so draws this season which is a decent return but the question we all keep asking ourselves why we can’t close a team out after going 1-0 up or so. My view of it is this; As martinez is persistent in playing his style of football, he goes for the 4-5-1 formation. Thats a massive ask of the lone striker then and it has shown in our poor return in goals this season. You need goals to win a game! Its no good purchasing all these strikers such as Boselli, such as Di Santo, such as Sammon if your not going to play them for a full 90 minutes at some stage with a different formation. In my opinion I think Sammon is the perfect man to work alongside Hugo. He can hold up the ball and support well and get into dangerous positions, plus he’s an aerial threat, something we don’t have!! But trying to win games purely from midfield is not always gonna work and I think it has shown this season. But Martinez has not really mixed the formation once, even when he could have afforded to and thats a downfall.

I also think his substitutions throughout the season have been very poor. It was nearly the same thing every weekend at once stage. Stam on at 65 mins, Di Santo at 76 mins and Moses on at 89 mins or so. The only real impact sub there being moses and at that stage it was way to late in the game. I like Di Santo, i think he’s got a good work rate and he tries so hard but god love him he just hasn’t got the strikers touch, he’s just not clinical enough. When we are trailing in a game, I’d sooner look to bring a player like Sammon who has scored 18 goals in the SPL, in order to try get the goals back rather than Di Santo who’s got what 1 in 2 years?Its just not good enough. I find that sometimes Martinez is just a bit fearless to change the 5 man midfield and maybe he’s right cause our back 4 are dodgy and maybe he see’s that but to be honest that’s his fault for not bringing in a solid centre defender or something.

I agree with the comments made from people about him representing us well with the media and all but to be honest mid season onwards I have become sick of hearing the same things over and over…the players showed good spirit, he’s extremely proud and they luck didn’t go our way. Fair enough sometimes luck just goes against ya and I’m all for encouraging and supporting the players after a loss, but in business which is ripen in sports…you get no where by being to nice. You have to show a certain amount of discipline and be the first to say to the players its not good enough and tackle them on the issue. You got to tell your players in a manner where theyl sit up and listen to you that you fecked up and this is why…and explain to them is should not happen again!If players are constantly backed in all their performances then a certain element of “its no big deal” hits in to them.

I appreciate he’s a young manager and he’s learning and he’s trying to play the right football, but look at the expense? We are in the relegation zone! I believe we can get ourselves out of it and stay up cause I believe in the players and their determination to stay up. However what if we get relegated and i’ve thought about this. Ok our young manager trying to get us to play this style of football ended up getting the team relegated, we’l come good cause were playing the right approach soccer and we’l be back up next season? Wrong! The expense of getting relegated is massive: You lose supporters, sales, finance, facilities need to be cut back so youth system etc… suffer, players leave and chairmen think of selling the club (as Whelan had already expressed interest earlier in the year). Our players are struggling and taking a while to adapt to this style of football now…it’l be just worse in the championship with those things looming over us.

I’ll back my team always regardless of what division we are in. Its a massive achievement for a team like Wigan to be in the premier league. I do like Martinez and the approach he brings however I just don’t think its the right time and the right team. He’s a learning manager but it could be at the clubs expense.

My long opinion on it all anyway.

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