Koeman’s priority as Everton manager is simple – get the best out of Barkley
Paul Wilson
The first and most obvious priority for the new Everton manager to sort out
is to establish which players will still be around next season. John Stones
and Romelu Lukaku, most prominently, have attracted attention and are
understood to be impatient for Champions League football, but if the players
are sufficiently impressed by Roberto Martínez’s successor they may be
persuaded to stay at Goodison.
What Ronald Koeman will need to find out, and it will not be easy with most
Everton players away on international duty for the next few weeks, is whether
his leading players are willing to give a new regime a go or whether they are
set on leaving. If the latter – bearing in mind that Koeman will have his
own ideas about whom he wants to keep and which players he might bring in –
it becomes a matter of achieving the best price and finding replacements as
quickly as possible.
Stones might be the more replaceable. Although undoubtedly a defender of
pedigree and potential, some of his performances last season were less
assured than might be expected of a centre-half described a year ago as
England’s first choice for the foreseeable future. If José Mourinho is
still keen, it might be best to take Manchester United’s money while the
player’s value is still high and use the cash to find a defender willing to
commit the next few years of his career to Everton.
Lukaku is slightly different. Reliable goalscorers are a rare commodity in
football and Everton have one of the best. The Belgian endured a frustrating
start to his career in England, twice being sent out on loan by Chelsea,
before becoming Everton’s record signing at ￡28m, and though still
relatively young he is entitled to feel that after five seasons in English
football he should by now be winning things rather than scoring to provide a
lifeline.
Where Everton would have finished in the table without Lukaku’s goals last
season hardly bears thinking about. Koeman will need to persuade him that he
can put other players of similar quality around him so he does not feel he is
carrying the whole team. It might be possible. If not, Everton will not be
short of offers but will find it difficult to get a like-for-like replacement.
Looking at the rest of the team, and beginning at the back, a new goalkeeper
would be high on most Everton supporters’ agendas. Tim Howard was great for
the club, even if he did stay on a touch too long, and the club really need
to find a long-term replacement of the same calibre. Joel Robles still looks
like an over-promoted reserve.
If Everton have defensive problems (and they most certainly do), here is the
most obvious upgrade. It was not Robles’s fault that so many goals were
conceded last season and so many winning positions thrown away, but he is not
yet the sort of commanding presence to inspire confidence in the defence in
front of him.
Everton actually have a decent defensive line, though Phil Jagielka is not
getting any younger and Stones may have to be replaced. At least one
centrealf is likely to be needed, though perhaps more important is working
to bring back defensive discipline to the entire team. Martínez was
famously woolly about the defensive aspect of the game and he was exactly the
same at Wigan before that.
Koeman, as a former defender, will be expected to tighten up that area. He
did so at Southampton, building on the foundations laid by Mauricio
Pochettino. Outside the top three, only Manchester United conceded fewer
goals than Koeman’s team last season.
Like Pochettino, another former defender, Koeman has a reputation for
producing teams that are tight at the back but still play attractive
football. That is exactly what Everton require. Under Martínez they were
beginning to acquire a reputation as a soft touch, a team frequently guilty
of over-complication. Most Everton fans could stand seeing their team become
a little meaner and more physical, and to that end a driving midfielder would
be a useful capture, someone to keep the side moving forward and bring the
best out of Ross Barkley.
Bringing the best from him may be the single most pressing issue in the new
manager’s in-tray, arguably more important than keeping hold of Lukaku.
Barkley is one of Everton’s own, an undoubted talent, yet he did not exactly
blossom under Martínez and his England career has been a series of false
starts. It would make Koeman’s task easier were Barkley to emerge as one of
the stars of Euro 2016.
That could still happen, even though many thought he was lucky to make the
squad. Potentially Barkley is the sort of player to build a team around,
though for all Martínez’s lavish claims, that potential still has to be
fully unlocked. Roy Hodgson has first go in France; after that the challenge
passes directly to Koeman.
Beyond that, the challenge facing Everton’s new manager is simple but
daunting. All four of last season’s north-west clubs now have different
managers than a year ago and the standard is exceptionally high. Everton
finished fourth of that quartet by a distance last season and they would like
to do much better. Not just to finish fourth by a shorter distance, but
perhaps to return to troubling the top four in the division.
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埃弗頓新帥科曼的首要任務：啟動羅斯-巴克利
羅伯特-馬丁內斯的繼任者必須要讓球隊有所進步了，太妃糖如果想要不一樣的戰績，羅
斯-巴克利，這個來自英格蘭大男孩的潛力就必須要被激發出來。
作者： Paul Wilson
對於埃弗頓新帥來說，當前最為緊迫的任務是要確定哪些球員符合下賽季的建隊計畫。目
前，斯通斯和盧卡庫身上的轉會傳言最多，兩人吸引了眾多豪門的目光，他們也急於渴望
到歐冠賽場上證明自己，但是，如果馬丁內斯的繼任者非此二人不用，管理層倒是會極力
勸說他們繼續留在太妃糖。
科曼新官上任，他需要知道球隊的主力框架是希望留在隊中捲土重來，還是意欲離開另謀
高就，這並不容易，尤其是很多人未來幾周都有著國際比賽任務。如果是後者的話——就
需要根據科曼的想法，決定誰應該留下，又或者應該進行哪些引援——這時候需要充分的
考慮性價比，而且需要儘快找到可以頂替離開球員的人選。
相對來說，頂替斯通斯的人選比較容易找到，不可忽視的是，斯通斯是潛力巨大的英格蘭
戶口本，一年前，英格蘭將斯通斯視為未來國家隊中衛位置上的希望，但上個賽季他的表
現和這種期望有所差距，並不具備說服力。如果何塞-穆裡尼奧還是傾向於將他帶到老特
拉福德，那麼對於埃弗頓來說，用斯通斯換取轉會資金也是不錯的選擇，用這部分錢買一
個未來幾年能夠為埃弗頓長期效力的後衛，這絕對是一筆划算的買賣。
盧卡庫則稍微有一些不同。在足球領域，穩定的得分手一直是少有的緊俏商品，而我們埃
弗頓的小魔獸，則可以說是世界最佳之一。在剛來英格蘭的時候，比利時人經歷了一小段
挫折，他曾經兩次被切爾西租借出去，之後則以創造埃弗頓隊史的2800萬英鎊來到了太妃
糖，儘管他還很年輕，但已經在英超摸爬滾打5年了，現在的盧卡庫有資格去通過自己的
努力贏得冠軍，不應該僅僅將奮鬥目標停留在靠進球吃飯的水準上。
如果沒有盧卡庫的話，上賽季埃弗頓的排名簡直想都不能想。科曼需要和小魔獸好好談談
，他應該讓盧卡庫知道，自己有能力將其他隊友拉倒和他同一水平線，在這支球隊中，盧
卡庫並非孤軍奮戰。交流成功的可能性當然有，但如果談不攏，埃弗頓的管理層將會收到
許多關於盧卡庫的報價，但是，想要找一個完美代替小魔獸的人，是非常非常困難的。
再來看看球隊的其他位置，首先從後防線開始，在太妃糖球迷的設想中，球隊應該在門將
位置上多花些心思。目前球隊的主力門將是霍華德，儘管已經是職業生涯暮年，但對於球
隊來說，他的角色還是非常重要的，埃弗頓也應該找一個和他水準差不多的門將，霍埃爾
-羅佈雷斯無論怎麼看，充其量也就是個替補。
如果埃弗頓在後防線存在問題（大多數時間裡都是有問題的），相關位置的補強和升級肯
定有很多文章可以做。上賽季，球隊丟了很多球，這當然不全是馬丁內斯的錯誤，許多應
該贏的比賽也都沒有拿下，但是，馬丁內斯的指揮氣質和水準，不足以身前的後防線發揮
水準。
儘管賈吉爾卡年事已高，斯通斯也可能離開球隊，但埃弗頓目前的這支後防實力其實並不
弱。從人員上來說，至少應該在中衛位置上再做一個補充，但真正的當務之急，是要將本
屬於這支球隊的防守紀律重新找回來。在防守方面，馬丁內斯是出名的不擅長，這一點在
之前執教維岡競技的時候已經有所證實。
科曼在做球員的時候是就是一名後衛，球迷們希望他能夠加強球隊的防守水準。在南安普
頓的時候，基於前任波切蒂諾的人員基礎，科曼的防守工作做得很好。除了榜首三強，上
賽季只有曼聯的丟球數比南安普頓要少。
波切蒂諾曾經也是一名後衛，和這名前任一樣，科曼也因為調教防線而聞名，而且，球隊
進攻端的創造力絲毫不受影響，這正是埃弗頓所需要的。在馬丁內斯手下，球隊後防變得
不堪一擊，場上的組織，也經常是過於拖遝。球隊風格變得愈加粗糙，更倚重身體和力量
，對於這樣的表現，大多數球迷尚可接受。但對於這樣的埃弗頓，中場應該有一名指揮官
，他應該具備強大的轉移球能力，能讓球隊進攻變得更加順暢，甚至，還可以把巴克利最
好的狀態激發出來。
讓巴克利物有所值，這是新帥任務列表中的頭一項。甚至可以這樣認為，這個任務比留住
盧卡庫還要重要。巴克利的身體裡流著埃弗頓的血，我們不用質疑他的天分，但是，在馬
丁內斯手下，他並沒有迎來屬於他自己的爆發，國家隊的起步生涯，也因為一些失誤而顯
得並不成功。如果巴克利能夠在2016年歐洲杯上漲球的話，科曼的工作自然也就會輕鬆一
些了。
漲球不是沒可能，儘管很多人認為他進入英格蘭大名單只是運氣多一些。巴克利身上有著
巨大的潛力，他是可以成為建隊核心的球員。但在馬丁內斯手下，這種才華被揮霍了，解
鎖潛力這一任務還將繼續。英格蘭主帥霍奇森將在法國先嘗試解鎖試試；之後，科曼則要
接過任務書，好好研究一番。
除此之外，埃弗頓新帥的任務就變得簡單而粗暴了。上賽季，英格蘭西北地方4家俱樂部
的教練都是一年前剛剛上任，更換主帥的標準簡直出奇的高。埃弗頓在這四小天鵝中排名
末尾，與其他三位差距比較明顯，他們在今年應該更進一步，不僅僅是要縮短與其他三支
球隊的差距，更是應該在英超努力衝擊前四。
接工時間：2016-6-18；
完工時間：2016-6-19；
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