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DoF satisfaction rating: summer transfer window 2019/20 season

Are you satisfied with the DoFs performance this past summer?

  • Yes

    Votes: 197 56.3%

  • No

    Votes: 164 46.9%
  • Total voters
    350
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Toffeelover said:
In what way was the DoF to blame for the six games?
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Maybe for not bringing in some key pieces we really needed (CB, CM)? I get and appreciate the build/plan for the future by targeting high-potential youngsters but it’s hard to see the future when you can’t win today, y’know?
 
DickRitchie214 said:
Maybe for not bringing in some key pieces we really needed (CB, CM)? I get and appreciate the build/plan for the future by targeting high-potential youngsters but it’s hard to see the future when you can’t win today, y’know?
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Well I think he did try and get the players for those positions but the holding club has to be willing to sell e,g. Zouma and Chelsea, Zaha and CP.

As for the six games is it not down to team selection and tactics plus subbing.
 
Toffeelover said:
Well I think he did try and get the players for those positions but the holding club has to be willing to sell e,g. Zouma and Chelsea, Zaha and CP.

As for the six games is it not down to team selection and tactics plus subbing.
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Oh no doubt he tried; what disappointed me was that there didn’t appear to be a plan B. I realize the CB situation was torched by Luiz going to Arsenal last-minute (thus making Chelsea unwilling to part with either Zouma or Tomori), but I still think there should have been a backup plan beyond scrambling to snag Rojo.

As for CM, we really should have simply thrown whatever was necessary to land Doucoure. I have no issue with passing on Zaha if the asking price was truly a ridiculous £80-100m.
 
A month since the last time this thread was posted in. Nestling just over the relegation zone now.

The manager is getting his rightful share of the stick. I sense there's still a few clinging onto their belief Brands is "special" though. An increasingly ludicrous position to retain IMO, but each to their own.

He's taken us from 8th to 17th, and spent £250M of the club's money getting there. In any normal industry there's blood on the carpet and he's down the road in an instant.
 

davek said:
A month since the last time this thread was posted in. Nestling just over the relegation zone now.

The manager is getting his rightful share of the stick. I sense there's still a few clinging onto their belief Brands is "special" though. An increasingly ludicrous position to retain IMO, but each to their own.

He's taken us from 8th to 17th, and spent £250M of the club's money getting there. In any normal industry there's blood on the carpet and he's down the road in an instant.
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Injuries haven’t helped, however so far, his tenure has been catastrophic.

The notion that we have been unlucky in not getting certain players in the transfer market is nonsense as that’s exactly what he was brought in for. having said that, he did inherit a terrible mess of a squad.
 
Bob Latchford said:
Injuries haven’t helped, however so far, his tenure has been catastrophic.

The notion that we have been unlucky in not getting certain players in the transfer market is nonsense as that’s exactly what he was brought in for. having said that, he did inherit a terrible mess of a squad.
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Did ok first season. That's been wiped out and then some by the catastrophe of last summer though.

His dealings ruined this season almost single handedly and almost besides what Silva could do.
 

davek said:
A month since the last time this thread was posted in. Nestling just over the relegation zone now.

The manager is getting his rightful share of the stick. I sense there's still a few clinging onto their belief Brands is "special" though. An increasingly ludicrous position to retain IMO, but each to their own.

He's taken us from 8th to 17th, and spent £250M of the club's money getting there. In any normal industry there's blood on the carpet and he's down the road in an instant.
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Needed to find a gem this summer to kick this squad on. Instead we got Iwobi from Arsenal. A player from a team we are supposed to be competing with that they deemed wasn't good enough.
 
davek said:
A month since the last time this thread was posted in. Nestling just over the relegation zone now.

The manager is getting his rightful share of the stick. I sense there's still a few clinging onto their belief Brands is "special" though. An increasingly ludicrous position to retain IMO, but each to their own.

He's taken us from 8th to 17th, and spent £250M of the club's money getting there. In any normal industry there's blood on the carpet and he's down the road in an instant.
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No Marcel Brands hasn't.
 
davek said:
A month since the last time this thread was posted in. Nestling just over the relegation zone now.

The manager is getting his rightful share of the stick. I sense there's still a few clinging onto their belief Brands is "special" though. An increasingly ludicrous position to retain IMO, but each to their own.

He's taken us from 8th to 17th, and spent £250M of the club's money getting there. In any normal industry there's blood on the carpet and he's down the road in an instant.
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I think its certainly reasonable to say that in the space of a mere few weeks, he has gone from near universal acclaim amongst supporters to a situation where there are legitimate questions to be asked concerning decision making and strategy.

My concern with the sgnings is that they haven't really contributed to a change of culture at the club and produced anyone with real leadership. Much is made of the research done and Brands himself is happy for media articles to be placed praising his process and effect, Moise Kean being the prime example.

Hindsight is wonderful but sometimes I do ask myself of the wisdom of making a lot of our signings from clubs like Barcelona, Juventus, Man City. Are they going to be hungry enough? Have we signed too many players who are on a downward trajectory and coming to Everton to coast?

Silva has to take responsibility for what happens on the field and so will ultimately lose his job sooner or later. I think that's as near to inevitable as you can get now, and maybe imminent depending on tomorrows result (not that I am in the camp of hoping we lose to facilitate that - never).

Surely Moshiri will delegate full responsibility for the next appointment to him and this is what I feel will completely define Brands at Everton. Brands has some degree of wriggle room with the Silva appointment but he won't get any with the next one.

Overall though, it's sobering to reflect on where we are years into Moshiri's "reign". We are a joke again, and I'm embarrassed by it.

All this brouhaha for absolutely nothing. It's becoming beyond parody, ridiculous.

Moshiri, and everyone in the boardroom have presided over yet another fine mess.
 
davek said:
The Gueye shaped hole he handed to his manager was THE mistake of the summer IMO.

There's no way we are where we are right now if Gueye had been retained.
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In all fairness mate form a business point of view I understood that sale. He got a deserved dream move, we got great service and a tidy profit and we replaced him with 2 midfielders.

The issue we've had there is Gbamin injury, Delphs showing that his poor injury record throughout his career wasn't suddenly going to magic itself away (but probably still worth the 8m punt in their opinion)

For me, we basically said DCL and a very inexperienced Kean would be good enough to get the goals, and left ourselves far too light at the back even judging it on the niggles that Mina had last season that should have been cause for probably bringing in 2 centre backs let alone 1.

The midfield for me, we've been unfortunate injury wise but the other 2 positions was negligible
 

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