He was never on the board, he was a Director Football
Marcel Brands was appoint to the board but in a footballing capacity.
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Marcel Brands was appoint to the board but in a footballing capacity.
mightymoyes
Player Valuation: £70m
Lol no
Yes, and the fella that was at Chelsea..
I literally can't even think of names! haha
I'm talking about people who operated in the area of work involving strengthening the actual football squad, ie Directors of Football
and Walsh fits that description.
Opinion about Brands seem to be split, but he didn't have anywhere near the success here that he'd had at his previous club.
Trevor Birch was it? I think I hoped he was going to be our saviour...
He lasted about 2 months didn't he? He very quickly realzied what an absolute clown show our board room / Kenwright was, and soon left for his own reputation
But Walsh was never on the board and has a completely different remit to the fella from 777.
And the roles of DoF at Everton have never been clarified, literally not one person outside of the upper echelons of the club no what remit these DoF have had at the club.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
Fixed for you
I'm not talking about people on the board in particular. I thought I'd explained that. I'm talking about people who are employed to
help the club succeed playing football, be they board members, DoFs, managers or coaches. Walsh and Brands had success in their roles at Leicester and PSV, and were brought to Everton to do the same here. They didn't. I can't make it clearer.
Leave out 'appointing people to the board' from my original post, and read it as 'appointing people to the club'.
Told Bill and the rest of the board that the best way the club could revive would be to find an outside buyer, of which he was told there wasn't a chance.
Had agreed a 50k a week deal with Rooney aswell, which was left on the table as non urgent when he left after 6 weeks in the job. 2 months later Rooney was sold to put towards the 40m debt the club had a the time.
Bill again doing what was best for him, not the club.
Azza
Player Valuation: £80m
Walsh was brought in to to do a completely different role to what he had at Leicester. It was no surprise that he was a complete failure.
And arguably Brands was consistently undermined in his role from all directions, Moshiri, Kenwright and DBB.
MrGrumpy
Player Valuation: £50m
No we don’t, an havnt for years it’s why we are where we are
JLW
Player Valuation: £60m
This has been a huge part of the problem, we've gone with the new trendy DoF role but without allowing anyone in the role to carry it out the way it should be.
We've been allowing managers to cherry pick players and we have the other 2 clowns wanting certain players/managers or speaking to agents.
It has been and is an absolute car crash
Dublin blue 75
Player Valuation: £50m
Yes, clever Trevor read that room very astutely and very quickly. He got the hell out of dodge as quick as he could. Right call from a career and credibility perspective.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £60m
The only 2 people we have hired with any recent success in running/organising a good football club/team are brands and Carlo.
DoF wise - Walsh was a scout who we bumped above his status. Thelwell has not had much success really. Brands has but we didn’t let him do the job with any autonomy.
Manager wise - silva, koeman, Lampard, Dyche had never won anything or achieved anything. Allardyce is renowned for being crap. Benitez hadn’t won anything in a decade. Only Carlo was a real successful manager when we hired him and is the only one to continue to be so.
Generally we have appointed bang average or worse and then wonder why we have remained bang average or worse.
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