Analysing the managerial changes in Premier League this season

Everton: After eleven years in charge of Everton, David Moyes finally called time on his spell as manager and the man Bill Kenwright chose as his replacement is the former Swansea and Wigan manager Roberto Martinez.

Roberto Martinez

Martinez became the first manager in the history of English football to win the FA cup and suffer relegation in the same season in the previous season. Everton may have picked a mixed bag here as opposed to the stability and consistency that Moyes had to offer.

Martinez, on the other hand, had built Swansea on an ideology that has reaped dividends for them with Brendan Rogers getting them promoted and Laudrup winning the League Cup last year. His teams at Wigan have been very tactically flexible with Martinez choosing to play a 3-5-2 on several occasions with Shaun Maloney acting as the creative force through the middle.

Martinez’s main focus will be keeping the big Belgian Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines out of the clutches of the big teams who have been circling for some time now. Martinez has also been instrumental in bringing through youngsters like James McCarthy and Callum McManaman at Wigan and will look to do the same with Ross Barkley and Jose Baxter at Goodison.

He needs to bring in someone to ease the goalscoring burden on Nikica Jelavic who looked a little off the boil sometimes last season and not interfere with the defensive stability that exists currently. All said and done, it appears to be a roller coaster ride for Everton fans who may end up falling in love with the warm Spaniard.