Marcel Brands

[Billy Dean]

I think the fact that the manager has come out this week and said he's doing a full review of the football operation is a bigger indictment on Brands than any transfer business.

 

[18efc78]

Kenwright makes my toes curl

 

[james_v02]

I think he signs players, who were not properly scouted. He probably just phone up agents and ask whoever is available/might be interested....and he signs players without any direction in mind, instead of signing players who complements what's lacking in the team and adds to the quality.

 

[Collyman]

The fella needs to relieved of his job. Dunc needs to be moved sidewards to an ambassador role or something, He’s only got the role he has to appease supporters over the Benitez appointment. Stop the sentimentality. He was kept in the role under Carlo because of his success as caretaker manager & to help Carlo when he 1st came in. Unsy too. There’s just so much wrong in our club. Coaches, scouts, Dof, executives. Medical, Fitness. Everything. We need to rip it all up & start from the bottom. I am genuinely worried about what could happen before we move to the dock if we don’t get our crap together.

 

[toffee-L]

I think he signs players, who were not properly scouted. He probably just phone up agents and ask whoever is available/might be interested....and he signs players without any direction in mind, instead of signing players who complements what's lacking in the team and adds to the quality.

I got this feeling reading his quotes about us trying to sign Donny Van De Beek.

 

[james_v02]

I got this feeling reading his quotes about us trying to sign Donny Van De Beek.

Not to mention his previous signings like Iwobi and Moise Kean. Both weren't exactly first team in their previous clubs before signing for us. How would the scouts have known if they only able to show flashes of their abilities on the pitch. I don't think scouts can observe training sessions?
Basically, both were signed due to hype by agents.

 

[BlueToff]

I think he signs players, who were not properly scouted. He probably just phone up agents and ask whoever is available/might be interested....and he signs players without any direction in mind, instead of signing players who complements what's lacking in the team and adds to the quality.

That might have been the case but he isn't in charge of singing anyone now anyway.

Benitez gets the final say.

Issue is Brands is basically a glorified scout and was unable to come up with any right-back targets over than Dumfries (who loads knew anyway even before the Euros), a 19-year-old back-up from Rangers with 20 senior games to his name, and a midfielder who can play right-back.

Clown.

 

[Toffeelover]

That might have been the case but he isn't in charge of singing anyone now anyway.

Benitez gets the final say.

Issue is Brands is basically a glorified scout and was unable to come up with any right-back targets over than Dumfries (who loads knew anyway even before the Euros), a 19-year-old back-up from Rangers with 20 senior games to his name, and a midfielder who can play right-back.

Clown.

Irresctive of this when it comes to the last two games we have to look at Benitez for these failures.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

Not to mention his previous signings like Iwobi and Moise Kean. Both weren't exactly first team in their previous clubs before signing for us. How would the scouts have known if they only able to show flashes of their abilities on the pitch. I don't think scouts can observe training sessions?
Basically, both were signed due to hype by agents.

They were both pretty good on Football Manager too. Probably just a coincedence.......

 

[Colonel Getafe]

Either he is incompetent or he has no authority.

Why was he given a new contract?

Methinks he was probably given a new contract because the were rumours other clubs were looking at hiring him and Moshiri didn't want to lose someone he thinks is an asset, so he was given a new deal, pay rise and a board seat to appease him for not having the control he'd otherwise want. That's my guess anyway.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

Remember when people who were crap at their jobs either got fired or had the decency to resign ?

Not sure I can recall the last person to voluntarily chose to walk away from an £80,000 per week contract of employment. I don't think too many people would.

 

[LocalNative]

I find it really difficult to pin all the blame on Brand when it's abundantly clear he isn't able to do his job without the interference of Moshiri and Kenwright, as well as probably the manager.

 

[JelavicBrate2]

I don't know what he or anybody else does really.

It's hard to apportion blame to anybody as it is such a shambolic mess.

So many questions not only with transfer policy but youth players too, are the youth players really not good enough or is it just a case of never getting the chance to show if they are good or not?

Why do we get so many injuries to expensive players? How do we have 100M of "talent" currently sitting either in our treatment room or a cell and not actually miss any of them? Why do we have a young exciting prospect out on loan to a top side whilst we have some 32 year old chugger playing up front who has already started more games than him in his time here? Why do certain players never seem to get a game whilst others always seem to get played whilst they are equally as crap as each other?

From top to bottom this club is an absolute mess. A weird type of mess too, a totally boring one.

This has been an issue ever since 2016, the club making bizarre decisions that don't make any sense. Buying numerous players who play in exactly the same position in 2017, we could of signed Dzeko for the amount we spent of Sigurdsonn. Was Besic any worse than players like Davies, the Snide and certain other muppets who were given a pass yet he wasn't, same with Lookman and Deulofeu they were got rid of, despite being not that different from other players at the club.

Keeping Maerinez in the club for the semi final, when we'd of been better with Joe Royle, then pointlessly sacking him before the last game of the season, when we had nothing to play for. What qualifications did Silva have to justify Moshiri going out his way to get him? The bizarre time, when Kean was substituted for no apparent reason, I don't understand why we' let him go.

Until we know who is making the signings at the club, then we can't really change is it the manager, Brands. Moshiri, Kenwright, whose making the decisions. Our highest paid player last season wasn't even on the bench for a lot of games last season, we're a club run by morons from top to bottom. Also because we sold a load of cheap season tickets to kids, that has meant there's hardly any tickets on offer for the day of the game, meaning it's very hard for fans to express their dissatisfaction at the club. In the past bad attendances communicated that, what's bizarre is we get better attendances now, than we did when were were far closer to the top 4 under Moyes and Martinez.

 

[MACCA75]

I find it really difficult to pin all the blame on Brand when it's abundantly clear he isn't able to do his job without the interference of Moshiri and Kenwright, as well as probably the manager.

True but then you think that the fees and wages for Gomes, Delph and Gbamin are heading toward £100 million.
And that’s without mentioning Iwobi.

 

[Colonel Getafe]

When do we discover Brands has been sitting doing nothing most of the time while Moshiri uses his Football Manager database to make all the signings?

Probably when Calvert-Lewin goes for £30m to Norwich in January and is replaced by 3 goalkeepers, Branislav Ivanovich and 17 year old Andoran midfielder from Tenerife reserves because he's accidentally clicked the wrong button whilst chatting to Jim White... ?