New Portugal Head Coach

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

Just been announced that the new Portuguese National head coach is no other than Roberto Martinez.

Strange appointment IMHO

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

Not Bruno Lage?

 

[manchesterwolf17]

Another one who knows where the bodies are hidden.

Why waste one generation of talent when you can waste two.

 

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

Not Bruno Lage?

Or it's a no no to Nuno

 

[Beastier]

Really don't understand why Martinez keeps getting top level jobs

 

[Rauls Headband]

Michael Beale was apparently approached and discussions had, but he decided that it wasn’t the right role for him.

 

[NavyWolf]

I don't understand this one.
Failure for Belgium and walks straight into a plum role with another talented generation with Portugal.
Plus surely there was a Portuguese candidate better qualified

 

[TheConcourse]

Another one who knows where the bodies are hidden.

Why waste one generation of talent when you can waste two.

Hahaha.

That’s a shocking appointment.

 

[clivewolves]

Another one that must be great in job interviews.

 

[Jefe]

Guy's a bigger fraud than Lambert. I'm sure Ruben and Sa are delighted with his appointment.

 

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

Guy's a bigger fraud than Lambert. I'm sure Ruben and Sa are delighted with his appointment.

Can you imagine the conversations in the canteen down at Compton this lunchtime?

 

[bigbluewolf]

If Roberto Martinez was called Bob Martin he wouldn’t get a job in non-league football let alone be an international manager.

 

[WWFC4EVA]

If Roberto Martinez was called Bob Martin he wouldn’t get a job in non-league football let alone be an international manager.

To be fair mate, he'd be too busy fronting his Pet Care range, to have time for a career in football!!!

 

[Notsoslimshady]

Michael Beale was apparently approached and discussions had, but he decided that it wasn’t the right role for him.

He's keeping quiet about it though. Doesn't want to make a big thing about it.

 

[Stee]

He must have some juicy dirt on a lot of people surely?

Average coach and that feels generous!

 

[Dubwolf71]

If Roberto Martinez was called Bob Martin he wouldn’t get a job in non-league football let alone be an international manager.

He's gone to the dogs as well.

 

[Monketron]

Hear me out, but I don't think he did that badly as Belgium manager. In both the WC2018 and EURO2020 they only narrowly lost to the eventual winners (France and Italy). Qatar was a disaster but the team was too old and well past their prime (not to mention Lukaku missing 3 sitters in that last game). Think he has something like a 70% win rate as Belgium manger and had them as the World no1 under his watch.

He has issues, mainly organising defences, but he's nowhere near as bad a manager the media seem to enjoy trolling him as to the public. I think his style of play would actually suit the type of players Portugal have right now.

 

[GoldenHorseshoe]

Really don't understand why Martinez keeps getting top level jobs

I don't either, he must interview well.

 

[The Wolf In The North]

I'm sure he's a nice bloke, and I'm sure he's a decent manager, but to me he'll always be the door handle who managed Wigan, and I despise Wigan, so **** him and his dopey face.

 

[Asthmatic Wolf]

It’s almost admirable how somebody so **** can be so smug

 

[CelebrityWolf]

Really don't understand why Martinez keeps getting top level jobs

He doesn't to be fair. International management isn't top level work.

 

[floydstreet]

Crazy
Wasted Belgian talent at its peak
His teams generally can’t defend
I don’t understand the pull aside from he is articulate. He’s employed to win euros not read the news. Very odd Nuno has a better record

 

[SmiffyWolf]

He doesn't to be fair. International management isn't top level work.

Agree . Anyone on here want Southgate in charge of Wolves .


Errmmmm answers the question

 

[CelebrityWolf]

I think he is a decent manager but he certainly struggles to set a team up well in the defensive third.

He didn't win anything with Belgium but no doubt they were a good side. Always felt it is pretty silly to say a top national side should be winning titles. You only get a chance every two years and there will generally be three or four other sides more than capable of winning the trophy.

Three major tournaments in which they finished 3rd losing to eventual champions France, a QF losing to eventual winners Italy and then of course the mess that was this world cup.

 

[Adrian_Monk]

Really don't understand why Martinez keeps getting top level jobs

I thought that, and then remembered I have also been paid quite handsomely (although granted nowhere near Martinez' level) for doing bugger all since the world cup started

 

[WolfInSheep'sClothing]

Hear me out, but I don't think he did that badly as Belgium manager. In both the WC2018 and EURO2020 they only narrowly lost to the eventual winners (France and Italy). Qatar was a disaster but the team was too old and well past their prime (not to mention Lukaku missing 3 sitters in that last game). Think he has something like a 70% win rate as Belgium manger and had them as the World no1 under his watch.

He has issues, mainly organising defences, but he's nowhere near as bad a manager the media seem to enjoy trolling him as to the public. I think his style of play would actually suit the type of players Portugal have right now.

Style over substance. Relegation with Wigan. Sacked at Everton. Belgian world no 1 ranking, first manager to do so since Marc Wilmots did it a couple of year before. Noone is queueing up for wilmots though.
Paul Jewell never took Wigan down. Steve Bruce Bruce never took Wigan down. Steve Bruce never signed Jason Scotland.
He comes across as an intelligent nice guy, but everything in football is ultimately a competition. We all turn things into "this guy is a complete idiot" and "that guy is the messiah" when in reality they are all people with strengths and weaknesses.
But I don't see what Martinez has done to warrant the top job of a country that has plenty of tactically astute managers.

 

[Polish Wolf]

They should have given it to Mourinho

 

[Very Proud (AKA Still Proud)]

They should have given it to Mourinho

England and Cloughie springs to mind. The Portuguese FA wouldn't be able to handle him

 

[WolfLing]

Stinks of Moyes to United this.

Fernando Santos has been the most successful Portugal manager of all time. It's a huge ask for a manager to go in and follow that.

The new manager also has the added ****-sandwich of having to manage their most successful player out of the side.

Martinez feels a bit like a patsy appointment. Go in, do all the dirty work, fail, then leave a proper manager (maybe Mourinho) to come in and pick up the pieces.

 

[ombyman]

Always makes me laugh when Dendonker fans at Wolves (and now Vile) say how he is an international......but leave out who the manager is (was)

 

[ombyman]

Stinks of Moyes to United this.

Fernando Santos has been the most successful Portugal manager of all time. It's a huge ask for a manager to go in and follow that.

The new manager also has the added ****-sandwich of having to manage their most successful player out of the side.

Martinez feels a bit like a patsy appointment. Go in, do all the dirty work, fail, then leave a proper manager (maybe Mourinho) to come in and pick up the pieces.

Someone like Lage would have been good as they could have let Ronaldo walk all over him until Ronaldo retired.

 

[QB Wolf]

If Roberto Martinez was called Bob Martin he wouldn’t get a job in non-league football let alone be an international manager.

Surely Bob Martin is a more exotic name in Portugal than Roberto Martinez!

 

[QB Wolf]

Always makes me laugh when Dendonker fans at Wolves (and now Vile) say how he is an international......but leave out who the manager is (was)

That Nuno must have been **** too he bought him and played him loads.

 

[ombyman]

That Nuno must have been **** too he bought him and played him loads.

Wolves are not the same level as the Belgian national team. We were/are an aspiring top 6 premier league team...that Belgium team should/could have been challenging for major honours.
I quite like and would have kept dendonker, but getting in that Belgian team is a different argument