Kone will get his chance to shine

We do need another striker, but Martinez has to say all this because he bought him. If he doesnÂ’t big him up, then he looks an even bigger fool than he already does.

Which is saying something.

Given that Roberto says he is unlikely to sign another striker, we can only hope he eventually Â’comes goodÂ’. Unlikely.

I want a manager who faces reality occasionally rather than this deluded fool.

Actually, a good pre-season would improve all the players.

Fact is, he signed a 3-year contract and next season will be his last at Everton unless something remarkable happens. Given his injuries over the last two years IÂ’m at a loss to explain why weÂ’re not looking for another striker. Lukaku will go into the season with no real competition again (even a fit Kone is not competition).

I can’t think of another team in the league that only has one fit striker – and yet we have no less than 4 CDMs.

I can just picture it now, early September 2015 (transfer window firmly shut), Lukaku picks up an injury and Kone is (surprise surprise) still not fit and we have only Naismith playing up front Â’till Xmas.....

So basically a player who has nowhere near looked good enough for the league this season will become the answer to any potential striking dilemma should "Lumpkaku" lose form or fitness??

No ambition at all.

While the redshite are correctly in meltdown, would you hear them talking up the prospects of Borini or Lambert next year no??

We are talking up players who have contributed nothing whatsoever for over 12 months ..

Just pathetic really.

He will blame a slow start on the long haul trip to Singapore..

Twenty months since we bought Kone, and letÂ’s face it heÂ’s never going to make it. Martinez should shut the fuck up, while not a priority we need competition for Lukaku. LetÂ’s buy the players he wants if heÂ’s staying which I for one hope he goes. Another season of that shite cannot be tolerated.

We will have the same useless players kept, whether sick notes or inconsistent performers, to ensure yet another poor season next time.

I cannot believe this man Martinez.

Just to show how poor Everton were in his second season you have to look at the record against the top 7 clubs if you include Soton (who may get into Europa League).

Everton played 14, won 2,drew 3 lost 9 scored 12, conceded 26.

Pretty abysmal isnÂ’t it?

He was asked the question in a pre-arranged q&a session with representatives of various fan sites. IÂ’m sure Â’shutting the fuck upÂ’ would have gone down a storm.

KoneÂ’s been a pretty disastrous signing so far due to his prolonged recovery from injury. When he has played heÂ’s looked ok in a few games and not up to snuff in others. You canÂ’t expect his manager to come out and say Â’heÂ’s been shite and I wash my hands of the porcelain boned prickÂ’.

We obviously need another striker capable of putting pressure on Lukaku, but itÂ’s a question of priorities as it appears the transfer budget this summer isnÂ’t exactly going to be behemoth sized. We need another central defender desperately. WeÂ’re crying out for a creative midfielder and at least one, preferably two, wide men with pace. IÂ’d put all those higher up the list than another striker right now.

For the one forward position Marinez plays with weÂ’ve got Lukaku (who will start almost every game when fit), Naismith (a striker who seldom gets to play as one), Mirallas (who IÂ’ve always believed would be best utilised as an out and out striker) and, yes, Kone (if Chewbacca has managed to put him back together with his head facing the right way round). Not ideal, but unless thereÂ’s someone decent made available on loan or out of contract, probably what weÂ’re going to have to make do with.

Paul,

Â’AmpleÂ’ could mean absolutely anything. Ample according to who? Ample in comparison with what?

In the same interview in which he spoke about Kone, he was asked about spending 㿈m again this summer and replied that he wouldnÂ’t be able to as Â’we donÂ’t have itÂ’.

When you consider the strengthening required, I would suggest it seems the transfer budget this summer is going to be anything but ample. Which means the manager is going to have to get creative in the transfer market. Something heÂ’s been more miss than hit at during his time here.

The talent is my issue: simply put, not good enough. He isnÂ’t good enough when fully fit to warrant a start, so sack him right off and get someone who would improve us. ItÂ’s not hard to see... is it?

I have no idea at all how fit Lukaku is but I do know he always looks wrecked after 20 minutes.

Steve, I’m not comparing (F) Ronaldo with Kone – I’m just saying both players who rely(ied) on explosive pace had to change their game to adapt to new physical realities.

He is coaching the desire and passion out of the players and boring the fans to death.

We have to get rid of him.

Sign up a quality youngster (Michy Batshuayi or Anthony Martial) or a good BPL striker (Hernandez from Man United or Charlie Austin)

Also, I would love us to sign up Nathan Redmond from Norwich, young English quality with flair and guts!

IÂ’d like to see Caulker at Everton, heÂ’s got and cold but still young, pacey, tall and strong, & finally a fan favourite, Deulofeu.

These four quality players will be about 㿊 mil at least, but itÂ’s a good investment in young talent which we need!

We also need a quality 'keeper very soon, a German in my opinion! (Tim can start playing a role like Brad Friedel, given his age.)

COYB!

While not a huge surprise, I would have expected us to have between 㾻m-㿀m before outgoings. So much for wishful thinking, eh!

We play one upfront, so quality strikers are not going to be lining up to play stand-in striker for 11th place Everton.

These figures were fairly predictable as we have witnessed a few people on this site saying they wouldn't renew. I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that this drop is down to the standard of football we were served up last season.

People have simply had enough.

But what we got yesterday was an utter embarrassment and a disgrace of a performance.

I donÂ’t get why people say we are easy on the eye and play good football. We even had Spurs fans telling us that at a service station on the M1 going home!!!! The EmperorÂ’s new clothes....

I donÂ’t enjoy watching us one bit and havenÂ’t done all season. As for my daughter, she will lose interest of something doesnÂ’t change.

What if we bring back Jelavic for not more than ٣M if he is available?

If he is willing to keep someone like Kone, who is way past his best (whatever that was), then God only knows what else he has in store for the Blues.

Does he know the Everton motto?

Anybody else realise we only kept two clean sheets away from home in the league this season? (Palace and WBA). The fewest we have ever managed since the Premier League formation in 1992. I have particularly singled out away clean sheets as that is where you are most likely to come under pressure given the onus is on the home team to attack.

I Personally think Jagielka and Stones are overrated as neither of them can attack a cross in the mould of say a John Terry, Carragher or even our own Dave Watson could. Whenever Everton have had a successful side, it was always built on not conceding many; this side wonÂ’t do that. I canÂ’t believe Martinez hasnÂ’t addressed this in two years.

Truth be told, we donÂ’t have a real No 9 like Benteke, Costa, Aguero, Suarez, Giroud or Harry Kane. Lukaku likes to feed off someone in a 4-4-2 set-up which is not our way of doing things and Kone likes to join people up so others can score goals. As he did when he played a vital part in Lennon's Swansea goal and Mirallas's Burnley goal.

Top priorities for me would be a fit Oviedo and a Pienaar who could give 60 minutes for 10 to 15 matches. I would also like one or two big guys like the monster Van Djk of Celtic and the classy 6Â’-5" Isreali Bitton, also of Celtic, who plays in the Gibbo position.

Kone did suffer a horrific injury through no fault of his own and who knows how well he would have done without that injury?

DoesnÂ’t our pre-season start in July? During Ramadan?

We all remember the excuses why Kone wasnÂ’t fit last pre-season as being due to Ramadan.

Then to witness the golden years of Howard Kendall’s brilliant teams of the 80s, even our last trophy, the FA Cup, against all odds, I just knew we would win it.

But Martinez has taken me to my lowest ebb. I still canÂ’t believe that there are a few left who think next season it will just all come together.

Maybe they still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy. That reality TV is real and that Jesus will come back to finish his glass of wine.

Meanwhile, in the real world, as many more informed and intelligent supporters have written, everything about the team has gone backwards. The older players donÂ’t give a toss, and are happy to go through the motions. The younger players are trying and failing to adhere to Martines philosophy. The promising ones will be sold and replaced by utter shite because thatÂ’s all this manager knows.

IÂ’ve always fancied Stones in that position but after watching Van Dijk stride forward with power, pace and skill, I think I might go for the mighty Dutchman. Believe it or not, IÂ’m getting excited already.

And so it is with the Blues;l they have real problems from top to bottom that aren’t easily solved. Hopefully a few shrewd signing will move us up the league but I’m not holding my breath where Roberto is concerned – he usually screws up.

Still we do have his daily sound bites to cheer us up; without a doubt, he would make a good comedian.

RM in future should be carefully supervised when it comes to choosing new players, his acquisitions and loanees show too many mistakes. Lennon was an exception perhaps but it looks like we canÂ’t afford him.

We all know that, come next season, itÂ’s going to be just the same. Sure, there is a few deluded fans thinking that it will come good like a fucking magic trick.

Have we seriously sold 28,000 season tickets? I bet it’s a lie, in the hope that others will think, "Oh my, I suppose I should renew my season ticket – after all, 28,000 must know something I don’t.

Mugs if you have; the only way to be rid of this manager is for the masses to vote with their wallets.

So, given that it has been suggested that one of the reasons we flunked this year was we didnÂ’t have a squad with sufficient strength in depth to cope with the demands of the league and Europe, how do you propose we fund this makeover you and the majority require?

Most of the the other Premier League clubs will be spending more than us. That is the theme for Kenwright's rule. He has never got the financial side right, never provided sufficient transfer funds, never managed a ground move, and has presided over steady decline.

Thank you so much for reading my opinions. Most of the Toffees I know think Dynamo Kiev turned us over not because we didnÂ’t have a big squad but because quite a few of our players werenÂ’t up to playing against opposition of that standard. I refer to Alcaraz, Atsu, Naismith and Kone.

No doubt these players tried their hardest but everyone seems to agree they were sadly out of their league. Are we really going to go through another season with these poor guys in our squad? WouldÂ’nt they all be far better off in the Championship or in Italy or somewhere, where the pressures are less demanding? That is what I was trying to say.

"You can't expect his manager to come out and say â'he's been shite and I wash my hands of the porcelain-boned prick." — I would love to hear our manager say something like that! If we had Nigel Pearson, then there is a small chance that he would.

Martinez is unconvincing in the transfer market. I am willing to put this down to bad luck. It looks like the injury has done for his career but you never know. I am not ready to wash my hands totally yet...

The problem is he is 32 in November. Very few strikers, even the best can still do it at that age. Look at Saha, Van Persie, Owen. Strikers should be replaced at that age anyway, so he is hardly likely to come back from 2 years out.

IÂ’m lost for words that this manager considers Kone as a top striker; what direction is this club heading in under this totally delusional manager. Martinez is so out of his depth itÂ’s laughable now.

He has to be the biggest football phoney ever!

I have always been impressed with Shane Long when I have seen him. His pace and constant movement is always a handful for a defence. If he was available at the right price I would give him a shot. It may satisfy those who find Lukaku quite stationary.

He is an intelligent player and has become a specialist lone front man.

He is (was) fast, agile and strong and makes good runs and holds the ball up well.

His touch hasnÂ’t been as good as it will be when he gets his full match sharpness but I think he could come good for Everton.

At the moment heÂ’s worth more to us in the squad than sold after a long injury and relatively poor season so why create a rift by saying heÂ’s shit or surplus to requirements?

Good PR as usual by our manager.