Marcel Brands

[davek]

Thanks architect.

 

[Eggs]

Best thing all round is to now scrap that Director of Football role.

It wont take at this club. It's alien.

….the reality is we don’t have a DoF, except in title.

i do agree, though, it is pointless bringing another in, especially whilst Benitez is Manager.

 

[Tubey]

Firing him does not alone fix anything

Well it gets rid of a completely useless 'Director of Football', so.... it fixes that?

 

[Saint Domingo]

As soon as he signed off on a contract for Michael Keane he was dead to me

 

[Theoneandonly]

We’re all going to have our gut feelings about this at the moment - and mine is that he’s walked rather than been pushed. In which case, this likely speaks to more chaos behind the scenes than a plan being carried out, in my view.

No he was sacked. He went back to Holland after the match and was summoned back on Friday.

 

[Seanjd]

Here you go:

Recruiting a successor to club captain Seamus Coleman has been on the club's agenda for a number of years but new manager Rafael Benitez was not prepared to sign a player this summer that did not meet his exacting standards.

Money was too precious and Benitez, who has only just inherited the right-back issue, was unwilling to risk squandering the club's cash.

The manager, club sources have confirmed, was not fully convinced on the merits of meeting the asking price for Denzel Dumfries, for example.

Inside Everton's search for a right-back and why one wasn't signed in the window

Everton have been searching for a successor to Seamus Coleman for a number of seasons but have yet to find the right player

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

We’ve been needing a RB for about 3-4 years. I’m no Benitez fan but it’s a bit ridiculous putting it on him.

 

[allen]

….be nice if he now dishes the dirt & tells us exactly what’s been going on. Only way we’ll find out I expect.

NDA will likely torpedo that.

Which is a shame, because the Dutch aren’t renowned for voluntarily keeping quiet in the face of a dispute.

 

[Nymzee]

Benitez in charge of January, the likes of Longstaff and Manquillo in, gets sacked when we're hovering above relegation zone, next manager comes in right before DCL and Richy leave. Hello Doncaster away.

 

[davek]

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Hold on. Does that still mean he's on the board?

 

[Eggs]

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….resigned. Good on him.

So, he wasn’t sacked.

 

[Goat]

It took you long enough like.

Iwobi was unforgiveable.

Why do you think I changed my name? I was done with the fella a long time ago, I do think he was unlucky with Gmblammo tho, but he wasnt in isolation.

Hes failed, an utter farce he was retained for another 3 years, rewarding failure, Everton that.

 

[Bilko]

Absolutely right decision. Not one of our squad with possible exception of Pickford gets in a top 4 squad.

 

[davek]

Benitez in charge of January, the likes of Longstaff and Manquillo in, gets sacked when we're hovering above relegation zone, next manager comes in right before DCL and Richy leave. Hello Doncaster away.

This defo strengthens Benitez's position.

 

[stretford blue]

….be nice if he now dishes the dirt & tells us exactly what’s been going on. Only way we’ll find out I expect.

Hope he's resigned and no non disclosure and open a whole can of worms

 

[tsubaki]

Brands is obviously the scapegoat here. Clearly though he his either entirely responsible for the awful transfers we've had or else he's been consistently overlooked by managers and the owner. Either way is not a good look for him and either way is reason enough for him being sacked. Give him full control of a club and he might do well but his spell in charge of us has contained some of our worst business in our history so it is what it is.

You can certainly make excuses for him but that doesn't mean he's done a good job. Same as Benitez, can't totally control the state of the club but hasn't done anything to help the situation.

The thing is Brands could go back to Holland, or somewhere else in Europe, and in a few years we will all be gnashing and wailing our teeth watching that club produce a good team for nothing.

Meanwhile we'll be watching £20 million pound man Longstaff get run round for 90 minutes by Charlton's midfield as they stroll to a 0-2 win.