2020/21 Marcel Brands

[TheSecondComing]

Can’t wait for him to wait until end of July to start recruitment.

 

[davek]

Just three more years until he leaves...maybe.

 

[Jim Hopper]

Director of football who’s team he’s assembling don’t know how to play football.

 

[brieverton]

Jury is back now on him I see, definitively.

Director of Junk and Jarg recruitment. Junk is the only appropriate metaphor for the summation of 3 years of his efforts to date, all rolled into last nights shambles.

If he was off in the summer I'd be more confident about our prospects but in true Everton style he is rewarded with another lucrative contact.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Jury is back now on him I see, definitively.

Director of Junk and Jarg recruitment. Junk is the only appropriate metaphor for the summation of 3 years of his efforts to date, all rolled into last nights shambles.

If he was off in the summer I'd be more confident about our prospects but in true Everton style he is rewarded with another lucrative contact.

Benard
Slomes
Delph
Gbamin
Iwobi
Lossl
Sidibe
Kean

Horrendous DOF yet he's conned Kenshite into giving him a new deal.

 

[toffee-L]

I can only assume that there was a conflict of wills between Brands and Ancellotti when it came to the signings of Allan and Doucoure. I was confused at the start of the season because it was clear as day that we needed someone who could screen the back four and we bought two all-action midfielders, neither of whom can do an effective job infront of the defence anywhere nearly as capably enough as for what we are trying to achieve.

Carlo was obviously desperate to bring Allan in, a player he knows well, but I think Brands was reluctant to let that get in the way of the Doucoure deal which we know was over 12 months in the making and at a cut-price, leading to a compromise from the both of them. In reality, only one should have ever been brought in given what our priorities were.

This is all just guess work on my part, but it does make me have strong questions about why we even have a DoF if we allow the manager to overrule his planning. If Brands had full control, he should have refused to sign Allan if he thought that Doucoure was the right player for us. Now, just 12 months on, we need yet another midfielder who can do the anchoring role that we also needed last summer, and if we play a 3 man midfield next season, one of Doucoure or Allan will probably find themselves on the bench.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Benard
Slomes
Delph
Gbamin
Iwobi
Lossl
Sidibe
Kean

Horrendous DOF yet he's conned Kenshite into giving him a new deal.

Real mature mate

 

[Everton1654]

He's more interested in his Dsquared t-shirts

 

[billyblue80]

He has assembled an imbanced squad lacking in a right hand side, desire and pace all over the pitch. Where's the hunger and ambition??!!! Pathetic

 

[APN_EFC]

Make or break summer for him really. If next season plays out similar to this (or worse) then he should be axed. FFP has been brought down significantly, it's time to start spending money and really improving the squad here and now. If he fails then he has zero excuses.

spending money to end contracts is equally important in my opinion, or losing money to trim the squad. It's important there are 22 realistic first XI players, who can actually push each other for a place. At the moment we have 12 maybe, and the rest are never really going to challenge for a place.

 

[Toffeelover]

Just three more years until he leaves...maybe.

Give over dave, you cannot blame him for the abject perofmasnces this season that have been seen at GP.

 

[Lanolin]

I can only assume that there was a conflict of wills between Brands and Ancellotti when it came to the signings of Allan and Doucoure. I was confused at the start of the season because it was clear as day that we needed someone who could screen the back four and we bought two all-action midfielders, neither of whom can do an effective job infront of the defence anywhere nearly as capably enough as for what we are trying to achieve.

Carlo was obviously desperate to bring Allan in, a player he knows well, but I think Brands was reluctant to let that get in the way of the Doucoure deal which we know was over 12 months in the making and at a cut-price, leading to a compromise from the both of them. In reality, only one should have ever been brought in given what our priorities were.

This is all just guess work on my part, but it does make me have strong questions about why we even have a DoF if we allow the manager to overrule his planning. If Brands had full control, he should have refused to sign Allan if he thought that Doucoure was the right player for us. Now, just 12 months on, we need yet another midfielder who can do the anchoring role that we also needed last summer, and if we play a 3 man midfield next season, one of Doucoure or Allan will probably find themselves on the bench.

Totally agree with this. Last summer was symptomatic of our transfer approach in recent years. By all accounts we really wanted Hjojberg, that sort of steady, sitting player that does the dirty work and starts moves off, but when it didn't happen we went for a completely different profile instead of having another player on the list with the same characteristics. We do it all the time, like when we went to Juve to enquire about the workmanlike, experienced, target man Mandzukic and came back with the raw, goalhanging, rookie Kean. We just don't seem to have proper plans in place, we always give the impression that we're just winging it and signing whoever catches our eye.

 

[davek]

Give over dave, you cannot blame him for the abject perofmasnces this season that have been seen at GP.

The standard of players he buys are poor; they play in Ancelotti's team of necessity. How is he not to blame?

 

[billyblue80]

One thing this summer only buy players under twenty five. Only buy players taking a step up who are hungry and have ambition.Not taking a step down from a big club. More Godfreys less Gomes's and Bernards. We need fight and hunger and ambition as a base line. Look at Leicester. Our team resembles a bunch of Oaps at times. Buying a Trippier instead of Aarons or a Ramsey instead of Anguissa or a Zaha instead of a Bailey would be a big mistake.

 

[toffee-L]

Totally agree with this. Last summer was symptomatic of our transfer approach in recent years. By all accounts we really wanted Hjojberg, that sort of steady, sitting player that does the dirty work and starts moves off, but when it didn't happen we went for a completely different profile instead of having another player on the list with the same characteristics. We do it all the time, like when we went to Juve to enquire about the workmanlike, experienced, target man Mandzukic and came back with the raw, goalhanging, rookie Kean. We just don't seem to have proper plans in place, we always give the impression that we're just winging it and signing whoever catches our eye.

Definitely. We are either not using the DoF model correctly or we have appointed a pair of amateurs in Walsh and Brands to do the job. I certainly think that was the case with Walsh as I think he presided over perhaps the most spectacular waste of of money in one transfer window possibly ever see in football history, but he was complete novice to the role and was known for unearthing gems from under rocks rather than meticulous squad building for the first team and under age groups.

Brands is arguably the bigger disappointment. He has plenty of experience for this exact role and he hasn't managed to reverse our worst practices as a club; such as handing out monster contracts, signing players unsuited to the league or not addressing our most immediate areas of concern (two summers ago was a centre back, last summer was an midfield anchor and a right back).

I hope Carlo and Brands are honest enough this summer to admit their mistakes and overhaul their methods because if they don't we'll find ourselves in a Walsh-Koeman situation before we know it.