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    Paging Yevrah: Roberto Martinez to Barcelona

    with Thierry Henry as his assistant.

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    What the what.

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    I saw this rumour this morning and imagined the fall out on here.



    Please let it be true.

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    Glorious.

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    Fully deserved.

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    Is this still rumour? Google suggests so.

    If this happens then whoever his agent is deserves about 40% of his salary.

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    One of my great victories on this board is outing that complete chancer as such, him managing Barcelona will be hilarious. Short to mid-term bump, followed by several absolute humiliations against organised sides with a modicum of attacking ability once he's systematically finished destroying their defence.

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    The season finale of the Binman Era.

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    This would be amazing, please let it be true.

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    They’ll still win the league.
    I'm a twit

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    Feels like Spain/La Liga could do with a resurgent Deportivo or the like as was the case around the turn of the millennium when they had about 6 different league winners in consecutive years.

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    Or a game abroad? That'll shake things up, no doubt.

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    It's the perfect binman experiment. Martinez is the rule that proves the Allardici theory correct.

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    He doesn't actually fit the binman theory, does he? I thought they had to be an ex-player or whatever for that. Like Zidane at Real, 'Pep' at Barcelona or OGS at United.

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    Who was the original binman? Was it Messi's guy at Barcelona or was it Villanova? I suppose that would reveal the core of the theory. The club badge man thing is a bit different.

    I think Martinez is more of a CHANCER.
    Last edited by niko_cee; 28-05-2019 at 07:24 PM.

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    I wouldn't even have Martinez down as a chancer. When I think of chancers, I think of Mark Hughes, Alan Pardew or Harry Redknapp.

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    Villanova wasn't a binman from memory. I'm sure he was doing as well as/better than Pep up to the point of the dreaded short illness.

    Someone called Tata was a binman.

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    Yeah, Tata, the one who was Messi's uncle's cousin's good friend or whatever he was.

    I think Tito might have been (the) one though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    I wouldn't even have Martinez down as a chancer. When I think of chancers, I think of Mark Hughes, Alan Pardew or Harry Redknapp.
    Hughes has won the league cup and Redknapp the FA Cup so they're equal to Martinez in the chancer stakes.

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    It's not the silverware, it's the attitude.

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    Tito Vilanova was the original binman because he was a nobody parachuted into the best job going. That he then did alright is irrelevant, as it was/is with Real Madrid. Roberto Martinez is just an average manager who has been over-promoted/rated because he prefers to play Good Football, but he hasn't got the job on clubman credentialism so he isn't a binman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    I wouldn't even have Martinez down as a chancer. When I think of chancers, I think of Mark Hughes, Alan Pardew or Harry Redknapp.
    None of them earned moves upwards despite little success to earn them.

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    Martinez is just living the dream FM career. If he wins the treble with Barca in the next few years and then moves to Swindon and purely buys 16 year old Brazilians, we'll know it for sure.

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    He'd have to turn off Brexit in the editor.

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    The fucking picture won't load
    Last edited by Pleb; 28-05-2019 at 09:17 PM.

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    The Martinez who got Belgium 3rd place in the World Cup?

    I think Everton to Belgium was arguably the more surprising jump.

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    They beat one decent team who they were better than.

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    England did exactly the same thing and it was enough for Southgate to get linked to United and an OBE...

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    We didn't beat any decent teams.

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    I was iffy with Switzerland in mind tbf.

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