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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Gbamin: Stevie Wonder could have seen that player was knackered going into last season. Brands thought he was being clever splurging £27M on him.
No wonder the ex-Dutch player Wim Kleft said that he was staggered how profligate and appalling he'd been since arriving here.
Not Quim AGAIN!
Isn’t he a bankrupt ex alcoholic cokehead who makes a living from from being controversial though?
His opinion on professional football carry’s about as much weight as Andy VDM’s surely?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
You think Carlo Ancelotti would have pitched up here if he shared your disdain for Brands?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
He uses him like a snot rag.
Come on Dave,it's getting abit silly now,Kind Sir.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Dave I think another poster demonstrated that apart from a few clubs most of the PL had persons in such a position so it can hardly be nonsense.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
It proves nothing. It means that good teams have them and more average and bad teams have them. Where does that leave us?
In reality they are just titles handed to a person doing badly what were the realm of a couple of people in the past.
It's just concentration not progress. And at Everton it's led to regression. Only a forceful manager like Ancelotti's arrival has stopped the rot we've seen under this new system.
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Oh dear Dave, as I aid before Carlo will not have the time to scout, negotiate, deal with finances so who will do that? BTW there is more to his duties at Everton than just that.
Dear me.
APN_EFC
Player Valuation: £25m
Ugh
In general i am keeping an open mind about Brands, and giving him a bit of time before a final judgement, but this could be depressing. We don't exactly have Barcelona's, Man U or ex-Champions to choose from. Can people like Ebbrell, Francis Jeffers really inspire? Unsworth is ok because now he's got a track record and everyone seems to like him at the club anyway, I like Big Dunc and he finally has proven himself with DCL and the 3 matches last year, but even with him we have used Club Legend generously - his stats are good in a period of solid mediocrity and failure...but his passion make up for that and and now we've invested so much we have to keep him, as he would have learned so much from the last 3 years. (good and bad lessons)
but we have to really choose carefully from ex-players because we had so much mediocrity in the late 90s and early 00s that I can only think of Cahill, Arteta, Distin, Howard being players really worth admiring on the coaching ground. In fact Howard might be a better coach than player (based on zero evidence), Arteta might be a good shout in 5 years if he improves and establishes some kind of quality / record (funny he's learning at Arsenal before he gets a top job like Everton lol) and Distin, Jags were just solid professionals with great work ethic, but doesn't mean they're good coaches. Baines and Coleman obviously would be good choices if they want to go down this route. THe point of ex - players is to inspire the new generation, and I cannot imagine young lads being inspired by any other names? And yes most importantly, are they any good at coaching?
Nepotism doesn't work in any profession.
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