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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埃弗顿新帅科曼的首要任务：启动罗斯-巴克利
罗伯特-马丁内斯的继任者必须要让球队有所进步了，太妃糖如果想要不一样的战绩，罗
斯-巴克利，这个来自英格兰大男孩的潜力就必须要被激发出来。
作者： Paul Wilson
对于埃弗顿新帅来说，当前最为紧迫的任务是要确定哪些球员符合下赛季的建队计画。目
前，斯通斯和卢卡库身上的转会传言最多，两人吸引了众多豪门的目光，他们也急于渴望
到欧冠赛场上证明自己，但是，如果马丁内斯的继任者非此二人不用，管理层倒是会极力
劝说他们继续留在太妃糖。
科曼新官上任，他需要知道球队的主力框架是希望留在队中卷土重来，还是意欲离开另谋
高就，这并不容易，尤其是很多人未来几周都有着国际比赛任务。如果是后者的话——就
需要根据科曼的想法，决定谁应该留下，又或者应该进行哪些引援——这时候需要充分的
考虑性价比，而且需要尽快找到可以顶替离开球员的人选。
相对来说，顶替斯通斯的人选比较容易找到，不可忽视的是，斯通斯是潜力巨大的英格兰
户口本，一年前，英格兰将斯通斯视为未来国家队中卫位置上的希望，但上个赛季他的表
现和这种期望有所差距，并不具备说服力。如果何塞-穆里尼奥还是倾向于将他带到老特
拉福德，那么对于埃弗顿来说，用斯通斯换取转会资金也是不错的选择，用这部分钱买一
个未来几年能够为埃弗顿长期效力的后卫，这绝对是一笔划算的买卖。
卢卡库则稍微有一些不同。在足球领域，稳定的得分手一直是少有的紧俏商品，而我们埃
弗顿的小魔兽，则可以说是世界最佳之一。在刚来英格兰的时候，比利时人经历了一小段
挫折，他曾经两次被切尔西租借出去，之后则以创造埃弗顿队史的2800万英镑来到了太妃
糖，尽管他还很年轻，但已经在英超摸爬滚打5年了，现在的卢卡库有资格去通过自己的
努力赢得冠军，不应该仅仅将奋斗目标停留在靠入球吃饭的水准上。
如果没有卢卡库的话，上赛季埃弗顿的排名简直想都不能想。科曼需要和小魔兽好好谈谈
，他应该让卢卡库知道，自己有能力将其他队友拉倒和他同一水平线，在这支球队中，卢
卡库并非孤军奋战。交流成功的可能性当然有，但如果谈不拢，埃弗顿的管理层将会收到
许多关于卢卡库的报价，但是，想要找一个完美代替小魔兽的人，是非常非常困难的。
再来看看球队的其他位置，首先从后防线开始，在太妃糖球迷的设想中，球队应该在门将
位置上多花些心思。目前球队的主力门将是霍华德，尽管已经是职业生涯暮年，但对于球
队来说，他的角色还是非常重要的，埃弗顿也应该找一个和他水准差不多的门将，霍埃尔
-罗布雷斯无论怎么看，充其量也就是个替补。
如果埃弗顿在后防线存在问题（大多数时间里都是有问题的），相关位置的补强和升级肯
定有很多文章可以做。上赛季，球队丢了很多球，这当然不全是马丁内斯的错误，许多应
该赢的比赛也都没有拿下，但是，马丁内斯的指挥气质和水准，不足以身前的后防线发挥
水准。
尽管贾吉尔卡年事已高，斯通斯也可能离开球队，但埃弗顿目前的这支后防实力其实并不
弱。从人员上来说，至少应该在中卫位置上再做一个补充，但真正的当务之急，是要将本
属于这支球队的防守纪律重新找回来。在防守方面，马丁内斯是出名的不擅长，这一点在
之前执教维冈竞技的时候已经有所证实。
科曼在做球员的时候是就是一名后卫，球迷们希望他能够加强球队的防守水准。在南安普
顿的时候，基于前任波切蒂诺的人员基础，科曼的防守工作做得很好。除了榜首三强，上
赛季只有曼联的丢球数比南安普顿要少。
波切蒂诺曾经也是一名后卫，和这名前任一样，科曼也因为调教防线而闻名，而且，球队
进攻端的创造力丝毫不受影响，这正是埃弗顿所需要的。在马丁内斯手下，球队后防变得
不堪一击，场上的组织，也经常是过于拖遝。球队风格变得愈加粗糙，更倚重身体和力量
，对于这样的表现，大多数球迷尚可接受。但对于这样的埃弗顿，中场应该有一名指挥官
，他应该具备强大的转移球能力，能让球队进攻变得更加顺畅，甚至，还可以把巴克利最
好的状态激发出来。
让巴克利物有所值，这是新帅任务列表中的头一项。甚至可以这样认为，这个任务比留住
卢卡库还要重要。巴克利的身体里流着埃弗顿的血，我们不用质疑他的天分，但是，在马
丁内斯手下，他并没有迎来属于他自己的爆发，国家队的起步生涯，也因为一些失误而显
得并不成功。如果巴克利能够在2016年欧洲杯上涨球的话，科曼的工作自然也就会轻松一
些了。
涨球不是没可能，尽管很多人认为他进入英格兰大名单只是运气多一些。巴克利身上有着
巨大的潜力，他是可以成为建队核心的球员。但在马丁内斯手下，这种才华被挥霍了，解
锁潜力这一任务还将继续。英格兰主帅霍奇森将在法国先尝试解锁试试；之后，科曼则要
接过任务书，好好研究一番。
除此之外，埃弗顿新帅的任务就变得简单而粗暴了。上赛季，英格兰西北地方4家俱乐部
的教练都是一年前刚刚上任，更换主帅的标准简直出奇的高。埃弗顿在这四小天鹅中排名
末尾，与其他三位差距比较明显，他们在今年应该更进一步，不仅仅是要缩短与其他三支
球队的差距，更是应该在英超努力冲击前四。
接工时间：2016-6-18；
完工时间：2016-6-19；
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上季有莱斯特城的大惊奇后，难保下季不会换Everton爆发
可以利用这次欧洲杯好好观察，适当补入适当的人选，期待下季英超