It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

Martinez heading back this week

06/07/2014 Comments (9) jump

Roberto Martinez is finishing up his stint as a pundit on ESPN's World Cup coverage from Brazil, and is keen to get back to work with Everton youngsters Ross Barkley and John Stones after their experiences with England this summer.
Martinez believes the experience of being in and around the World Cup squad will have been beneficial to the 20-year-olds and the Everton manager – who signed a new five year contract this summer – sees the pair as integral to his “project” at Goodison Park.

“I have signed my contract at Everton – it's an exciting project,” Martinez said.

“I'm looking forward to getting back to work with young players like Ross Barkley and John Stones. I want to see them after their experience with England this summer. Ross played in the World Cup and John was on standby and also played in America before they went to Brazil.”

Most of the Everton squad who were not involved in the World Cup are expected back at the club this week before they fly to Austria for a training camp.

Stones was just behind Gareth Barry in a Finch Farm competition Martinez had in place for each training session as an incentive in which Blues players accumulated points, Everton's first-teamers battled it out to be named the 'best trainer'.

Gareth Barry won a watch with his inscription on it while Ross Barkley won a trip to watch Barcelona play at the Nou Camp.



Quotes sourced from Liverpool Echo


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Frank Crewe
1 Posted 06/07/2014 at 17:10:12

What experience? Blink and you would miss it.
Have you ever wondered if players like Barkley and Stones are so good why don't continental clubs ever bid for them? The only clubs who ever show any interest in English players are other English clubs.

Maybe Barkley. Stones, Shaw, Lallana, etc aren't as good as we would like to think they are and their actual as opposed to imagined quality gets exposed every couple of years during the international tournaments in Europe and the World Cup. All of a sudden it's all eyes on the foreign players and take no notice of the English ones because they're really average.

Could Barkley or Stones play for Real Madrid or Barca? I seriously doubt it.
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Paul Andrews
2 Posted 06/07/2014 at 17:18:57

What's with all the negativity about our young players?
Lukaku getting the back torn off him on another thread and now this? .
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Frank Crewe
3 Posted 06/07/2014 at 17:23:54

I'm talking about young English players not young Belgian players. Why won't any continental club stump up £20 million for Barkley yet apparently Citeh will? .
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Eugene Kearney
4 Posted 06/07/2014 at 17:36:47

Good that Roberto is on his way back - now we should see some actual movement on transfers in......it will make a change from all the gossip/rumours we've been getting for weeks. .
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Robert Collins
5 Posted 06/07/2014 at 18:48:25

Ross Barclay and is agent win tickets to the Nou Camp?
Can't we also send along Stones, Oviedo and McCarthy that way after they've tapped Ross up in the stadium they won't have to come back for our other young talents.
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Colin Glassar
6 Posted 06/07/2014 at 18:56:56

Frank, I think it's more to do with English players inability to adapt to foreign climes that stops foreign clubs from buying them, plus the exorbitant fees they earn here.
Only a few players have made the grade abroad e.g. Keegan and woodcock in Germany (both became fluent), Beckham in Spain (learnt a bit of Spanish), Gazza in Italy (never even learnt English but he loved it over there). There's probably a few more but these are the stand out ones. Plus the fact that we are brainwashed into thinking we have the best league in the world than there's not much incentive to move abroad is there? .
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Paul Andrews
7 Posted 06/07/2014 at 19:04:56

Robert,
Is the H key broke on your laptop?
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Jamie Barlow
8 Posted 06/07/2014 at 19:05:20

I don't think it was Ross that won the trip Robert so I think we can breathe easy. .
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Mike Allison
9 Posted 06/07/2014 at 19:07:07

Frank, Real Madrid have regularly signed English players over the last 10-15 years, Woodgate, Beckham, Owen and McManaman plus Bale whose football has been in the English system.
Very few foreign clubs can match the wages paid by Premier League clubs and tend to scout in South America and Africa where they can buy talented players for, historically, far less in both transfer fees and wages. If a player is good enough for the first team in the Premier League, he's already going to command a large fee because his club will be relatively rich in global terms and won't need to sell, if he's playing in the Ivory Coast Premier League you probably won't have to shell out so much.
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All that rubbish football and no one watched one of the greatest Men's Wimbledon finals of all time .... Five sets of pure skill and athleticism

Think the title of the thread is the giveaway here jimmy!

Bah !!!!!!!! hooligans !!!

I watched it Jimmy, it was indeed a classic! I also watched F1 on the iPad, also a classic!

Tennis now bumper car racing, what next.. bleeding rugby.

Just cut it out alright you lot -):

One of the best finals for years - Final - Djokovic v Federer

All we need now is a video of Cliff Richard singing at Wimbledon in a rain break.

Careful what you wish for -

LOL

Good on you Kim and skinny ...

Almost matched the 2008 final ..

Agggghhhhh....what next ?...Duran Duran and Lulu ?...at least DD did sing something about sand and Rio...

He put it on there for stan ,we heard he's a huge Cliff fan ...

Worth it to see Mcenroe - 1 minute 20ish in.

Funny how everybody loves him now considering all his outbursts ...

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Careful skinny we are turning this in to a tennis thread :))

too much info on Everton.

Chris we know you are a big fan but putting coments on the board aswel!!!!!!!

Duran Duran ........................RIO........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA

Goldfinger was a new romantic ! whats the world coming to .

No chance Im a rocker. Stones, Deep Purple, ELO.

Becoming a MUSIC thread now, Stan will do his nut.