Season › 2013-14 › News Martinez prepared to be patient through period of transition , The Guardian , 21 September, 0comments | Jump to most recent Roberto Martinez says that he accepts mistakes will be made as his Everton side adjust to the "big changes" he is making to their style of play, ones he believes will lead to "big results" at Goodison Park. The manager admitted that he "impressed with the patience of the crowd," against Chelsea last weekend as the Blues carved out a 1-0 win over Jose Mourinho's much-vaunted side. "I know you'll get the odd reaction because it's something new but if you want to have big results there has to be a big change," he continues, "otherwise if you don't change things you're not going to have big changes. We know as a football club that if we stick together in this transitional period we're going to get the benefits. That's clear. "At Swansea it took six or seven months to get the crowd to understand what we were trying to do. We had a period of seven months in League One where we were getting booed off but once you assimilate the concepts and the way of playing, the crowd understands it and I don't think the crowd at Swansea would accept any other way of playing now. "At Wigan it took us a long time but allowed us to stay in the Premier League for three seasons and win an FA Cup, and I think the crowd is intelligent enough to see why we're doing certain things and will always support the players when they're trying to be brave for a reason. It's one thing to be stupid and another is being brave and trying to see the end-product." The Spaniard is resistant to resorting to the long-ball game for the sake of it, saying: "Maybe you will win a game [with that tactic] but you're not going to achieve your aim over the season. You're always looking at the long term. One thing is winning games but there is also knowing how to win games and that doesn't happen overnight. The football concepts and the way of playing is very clear and you have to be quite stubborn. "It has happened at many other football clubs where you have an easy way of playing," he goes on, "which is short-term, trying to be solid, getting through 90 minutes, not getting out of the comfort zone as a squad and not getting better. But what's important is that over the course of the season you end up a better team than you were at the beginning. "As a team we need to get better and it will take time and a bit of understanding, but what we've done in 12 weeks is incredible. I don't think you'd be able to do that with any other team in that short period of time." Quotes or other material sourced from The Guardian About these ads