McGeady: 'I just couldn't get going' at Everton

Frustrated players is a problem Koeman will be faced with this season. I hope he deals with it better than Martinez seemingly did.

"You're in phenomenal form son. Enjoy the game in the stand".

It could sow the seeds of discontent. Hope not.

Hope he does well at Sunderland and plays again for Ireland. Maybe he can show us what we are missing? Probably got a point to prove just needs to see it on the park.

Maybe we will get Sunderland in a cup game – you never know.

"...and just used to reply, dead calm and full of confidence like...

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Of course, turning up looking jowlier than Jabba The Hutt had absolutely jack shit to do with McGeady failing to 'get going' at Everton.

My point being – he never influenced the first team. One-footed and went into blind alleys.

Martinez was a joker though. I dread to think who else got that treatment. Super Kev maybe?

I remember thinking early on, he was the equal of some of the oiliest PR types. That type that are so overtly full of shit and unabashed that everyone can see it, because somehow it works on just about enough people to be viable– a true percentage game.

You have to hand it to Martinez; he did this is his second language. He'd be absolutely deadly in a Spanish PR consultancy.

We shoulda been champs us, not Leicester, if only we'd trusted to 'Use the Complete Boll*s,.. sorry.. Force, Luke[aku]'!!! Sadly, as for Aiden McGeady, he was never the player we all hoped and wished he'd be for us. I wish him well anyway...

C'mon Aiden, tell us more.

We'll see.

Super Kev, really? He's a one-trick pony with the fitness levels of my asthmatic granny. The sooner he goes, the better.

He's very hit & miss as a player. He has the ability to produce some amazing things but can also be a complete liability and gives the ball away too much. The only role I could see for him in the Premiere League would be as an impact sub when getting beat. I think he has found his level.

The most interesting bits were his observations on Martinez. He clearly thinks he's a bad gobshite. Correctly.

-Transcript Begins-

Obi Juan Martinez ( with a focused gaze from underneath an intense furrowed brow): ''Look deep into my eyes, Bill… using the exact style of play that I employed over a number of seasons at Wigan that eventually got them relegated – although while winning the FA Cup along the way – I can get you, Everton Football club into the Champions League Group Stages, and in no time at all."

Bill Kenwright (trance-like stares back and repeats emptily): ''Yes… yes...you can get us to the Champions League…in no time…"

Obi Juan Martinez( in the same manner, simply states ): ''I will probably never win another trophy, as that one was a complete fluke´´

Bill Kenwright ( adds very vacantly): '' never…win…another trophy…"

Obi Juan Martinez (without not so much as a giggle, adds) : ''I would like 10 million quid a year for this."

Bill Kenwright (continues,trance-like): '' Yes, 10 million…"

Obi Juan Martinez ( continues, unfazed ): ''When I am serially failing through my personal stubborn brand of harikari football, and even when I have used the word phenomenal to describe mundane things more times than you have had hot dinners, you will come out as being 100% behind me continuing in the role of Manager of Everton FC"

Bill Kenwright: ''…hot dinners…"

Obi Juan Martinez ( without batting an eyelid ): ''Now go announce me as Manager, sharpish, before people get suspicious of us staring deeply into one another's eyes"

Bill Kenwright: '' Yes, Master´´

Obi Juan Martinez ( with an almost imperceptibly nod says ): ''You may leave´´.

[Transcript ends...]

Who could doubt the veracity of Aiden´s assertions after this revelation?

Totally Unbelievable! "Once a blue" brigade hey?

Perhaps but he seemed to always keep going back on the same foot so the defender kept showing him onto the other one and he twisted and turned back to get back onto his preferred option and the attack fell apart.

Maybe he was more confident using both feet in the SPL or Russia.

I always saw a player who could not do the simple things and did not have a killer instinct at this level. Could beat a player easily but then play the pass or beat the next one and shoot? No. He'd then stutter or run down a blind alley or go back and try beating the first guy again.

Who hasn't "gotten going" since he left Celtic seven years ago next week.

Who looked, he admits, like a "bowling ball" when he joined us. (And pretty much the same when he left.)

Who had maybe four or five good appearances out of 32 (yes, Eddie #13, we definitely did see his talent).

Who got shoved off the first team by Aaron Lennon, a less gifted but massively more effective footballer.

Who apparently has a problem with "foreigners" in the dressing room.

Who just lost a lot of respect from me after these comments.

Let's instead highlight the donkey that we have in central defence that 㾶 million was paid for, 㿊 million Bolasie who couldn't find a head or a body with a meaningful cross while Deulofeu was relegated to the bench. Everton´s season only picked up after he got injured and Koeman couldn't play him anymore.

Or point out the 㾶 million paid out for the untried weak small and slow winger called Lookman who has been preferred to for 1st team duties than the much superior Dowell this season. Niasse, too, who scored more goals on loan in a bad team with fewer starts than his replacement Valencia did across a whole season in a much better one.

I won't even mention Kone's record. Niasse deserved a proper shot, more so than either of those two.

Koeman picks his team to justify his nasty chequebook habits and tells people like Niasse "It does not matter if you knuckle down, perform and even succeed, I am going to pick this other guy who isn't performing or can't because he is crap, 'cause I hitched my reputation to him by signing him for a lot of money."

Let's highlight the divisive and stupid favoritism that Koeman represents, his poor handling of several squads (Valencia for one) in the past and point out the financial situation that could occur should Moshiri's millions vanish and Everton are left holding the debt for that he is fast racking up – refer to Portsmouth, Leeds, Bolton, Blackburn or Fulham, (or Villa now too) as examples of how bad it can get.