Yes but how often did he play CB? He was signed as a DM by the scousers. He was an accidental CB and a RB.
You can also find 1 guy out of 1000 who smokes 2 packs of ciggies a day and don't suffer from lung cancer too. Doesn't mean there isn't a huge risk of smoking 2 packs of fags a day?
Why take such a big risk for your very first big signing at your new club? £50m plus add-ons is a huge gamble when no manager in the top 6 would take that risk. It means that either ETH is serious ignorant of the PL or he really thinks Martinez has something in him that can overcome being bullied off the park.
Martinez could be the litmus test on ETH. Either turns out to be a genius move or something that be the symbol of his failure.
Surely you exaggerate when you said symbol of failure. What about a third option? Neither a genius move nor a symbol of failure but a bridging step to a complete team?
Nobody is talking about Lukaku being Tuchel's symbol of failure, Klopp and the OG Pep Guardiola is my idol signed a lot of duds at the beginning and nobody was talking about any of the signings as their symbol of failure. Even with an unlimited budget, Pep took 2 years to get it right at Man City.
I have a feeling you are using Martinez to pick on ETH. Good manager doesn't always get it right but they learn from their mistakes and adapt to the new environment. ETH is the best pick we got. Did Pep not do his due d before he came to the Premier League? He too was shocked and had to adapt. It is just 2 games, give Martinez and ETH a chance man.
Getting signings right for us is important, being prudent with money is very important to us. More so because our management. We tend to overspend on targets late in the window because we wasted so much time haggling a fee on primary targets. We limit our transfer kitty by wanting too much for players with high wages - which we almost always end up with 0 by letting them all walk away for free.
Liverpool or Chelsea and heck maybe even Spurs would have signed, ditched 2-3 players by the time we manage to sell Bailey, Jones, AWB.