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Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
The fact he signed a new contract is very telling.
If your boss was throwing money at a wall, you telling me you wouldnt go pick some up fambo?
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
The point stands. He has had to return to his old club in a backwater league. People often return to their old job on a higher salary. It's the only way to make the return palatable.
If leaving PSV to go to Everton was a step up - and it was - having to return is obviously a step back. A fancy new job title does not obscure the simple reality: he's back where he started having bombed in the big league.
Why people want to defend this charlatan is beyond me.
Of course he is, and as your rightly mention he, in his role, has to shoulder some of the responsibility for where we now are as a club.
But, we can't also ignore that it appears as if his role was made at a minimum difficult to potentially impossible due to the nature of the club's leadership.
We know Moshiri has interfered in transfers; we know that the club's supposed model (e.g. the type of player we wanted) was ripped up a few times.
It's really easy to put all the blame on Brands as the fall guy, while ignoring the conditions that may have contributed as well.
Have you seen the comment about Carlo and a Rolls-Royce?
What was that agents name who spilled everything about Moshiri??
Edit: Rob Seagal
Edit: Rob Seagal
“Everton for example, let’s make no bones about this – The reason Everton is in such a mess is because of their owner.
“Everton had people, well-respected footballing people, like Marcel Brands, who took the blame for poor signings, but they were the owner’s signings who listened to a Brazilian agent and the club started buying players he recommended and everyone in football knew it.
He added: “When are these clubs going to learn? In fact, the only people who truly care about the clubs are the fans.”
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
It's quite obviously Moshiri's fault. And Kenwright's.
But Brands is also culpable.
Him painting himself as some innocent victim in all this while he trousered huge money and signed a contract extension in the full knowledge of the dysfunction around him is brazenly self-serving.
You can identify him as an utter charlatan while knowing the true malignant cancer was above.
That’s the one.
I know there was another one last year, can’t remember if the name was published, but he basically said “you can’t deal with Everton because there’s 3 people you need approval off”
It’s utterly crazy. I just pray that Kopite Kev is allowed to his job
He’s CEO, of course it’s massive step up lol lol lol lol
And All I’ve literally said is that the water is muddy at Everton because nobody knows who was responsible for what.
If you think that’s hasn’t happened then fine, I think the owner has meddled massively and put us in this position. Which has been confirmed by numerous sources, including Brands. But because it’s him, he’s saving face
Ok
Baines' left foot
Player Valuation: £90m
Perhaps not, but he can’t absolve himself of responsibility.
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
He's back at PSV. A man of genuine quality does not return to that level if he had better options. He's not in ANY of the top five leagues in European football. This is the level of mediocrity that clown Moshiri employed to direct the football operation at Everton. It's no wonder we are an utter shambles.
Not the point.
He chose to stay and ride the gravy train (which is fine), but for that he forfeits any right to criticise the mess. He was a major part of it.
Nail on the head. I think too many people fall into the binary camp - it's one or the other. Brands wasn't perfect, but it appears his position wasn't help.
It's a sign of the disarray behind the scenes.
The Rolls Royce comment isn't new - it was public at the time. A search on Google will find loads of articles.
I'm not saying Farhad Moshiri is infallible here, I'm saying Marcel Brands isn't.
Moshiri admitted his mistakes in his last update to fans, Brands is just looking to deflect.
I said it loads on here over the years and elsewhere that if it is true that Moshiri is meddling to the point of Brands being unable to do his job - then Brands as DOF should have the integrity to resign.
He didn't - he accepted promotion to the board, and much later down the line renewed his contract.
When you do that, you lose the right to shift blame to others.
I would say if Brands is doing lip service then it's even worse than just having a meddling owner - no DOF has complete autonomy - they all have a boss and all work in coalition with managers etc.
What's done is done - the record, and how backwards we went under Brands is clear for all to see.
What did Brands do well at Everton? If he had some of that, he wouldn't feel the need to deflect and blame to save face.
Mindful we're moving away from Kevin Thelwell mind...
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