Moyes Potential Replacement

[Professor Toffee]

Diamonds Are For Hibbert

Diamonds are for Everton

 

[Liam_Baggies]

I generally prefer it when the manager takes care of that stuff

I think Directors of Football are generally quite redundant and only muddy the waters

The manager should go to the chairman, get what money is available, and then call all the shots himself

I'm a bit more old fashioned when it comes to that sort of stuff though

I don't think we need a DOF

We just need a competant manager who has reasoable financial backing

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet - that is the exact same thoughts I had about the DOF role when the Albion implemented it - only we brought it in alongside a different name.

However, it is the typical stereotypical view that it must all come from the manager. Having a DOF or Sporting Technical Director as we call it allows the manager greater scope to concentrate primarily on the side. He can have a say with regards to transfers but if the method is to work then it needs a very good recruitment set up to scale the globe and find talent at much cheaper prices. I could sit all day and reel off some of the bargains we've picked up since 2009. In addition, the DOF can then control other aspects of the football such as sports science and the academy.

You do need the right people in place, however, but I personally would encourage any club to to follow the model and I would expect Ralf Rangnick to be a decent appointment in that sense given his ability to find players in the transfer market and willingness to explore and encourage academy talent - he was very instrumental in the career of Lewis Holtby. Whether Rangnick would fancy that role at Everton, I don't know but if I was Kenwright, then I'd certainly have him at the top of my managerial list.

 

[helpimonfire]

A View To A Bill

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Diamonds Are For Hibbert

Diamonds are for Everton would be good

Graham Stuart are for Ever

 

[Rugby Toffee]

Got a uneasy feeling it may go internal....dunno why , but me water is telling me this

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Diamonds are for Everton

beat me to it

 

[technojoe]

Dr Neville

This is a Neville-ending Story!

 

[BernieWright13]

ffs.....does this mean Neville is staying? I thought Moyes was carting him off down the 62?

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[Marco Materazzi]

Magaye Another Gueye

 

[faddy the blue]

Jesus. Last I posted in here it was in the late 400s.

I expect Martinez. That is all.

Glad to see the stupid Jurgen Klinsmann thing has died.

And I thought we'd never beat the "Sir Landon of Donovan" thread.

 

[Darth Toffeeman]

Magaye Another Gueye

ACE

 

[Steve Wigan]

It could have been....From Russia With Vagner Love.....

 

[faddy the blue]

Do people forget the attacking football we played under moyes? We were hardly a un-attractive side or stoke!

Granted he mixed it up, didn't always play that way but looking at the stubbornness of some to play a certain way whatever the results at all costs....

Just saying like but IMO a clever manager can play diferent ways and adapt to given situations.

Clever was exactly what Moyes was not. Its not clever taking a lead and then deciding to sit back and to draw or lose. We lost the FA cup final and the Semi final vs the ****e due to this. Its not clever using 10 mean to defend a corner and inviting pressure.

A clever manager knows how to handle his players even if they have ego (like Mancini, Jose)...not saying that's who we should get here but a man who can instill confidence when it matter the most and get rid of that "If we concede they we're f*cked...so defend at all cost" mentality.

 

[toffee-boy]

SSN are only named two out of the three people who has been interviewed for the job ... im guessing we are still saying vitor is the 3rd?

 

[Billy Dean]

Without wishing to blow my own trumpet - that is the exact same thoughts I had about the DOF role when the Albion implemented it - only we brought it in alongside a different name.

However, it is the typical stereotypical view that it must all come from the manager. Having a DOF or Sporting Technical Director as we call it allows the manager greater scope to concentrate primarily on the side. He can have a say with regards to transfers but if the method is to work then it needs a very good recruitment set up to scale the globe and find talent at much cheaper prices. I could sit all day and reel off some of the bargains we've picked up since 2009. In addition, the DOF can then control other aspects of the football such as sports science and the academy.

You do need the right people in place, however, but I personally would encourage any club to to follow the model and I would expect Ralf Rangnick to be a decent appointment in that sense given his ability to find players in the transfer market and willingness to explore and encourage academy talent - he was very instrumental in the career of Lewis Holtby. Whether Rangnick would fancy that role at Everton, I don't know but if I was Kenwright, then I'd certainly have him at the top of my managerial list.

Thanks for that post, mate. Weren't you looking at Rangnick too at one stage? Must be a blow losing Ashworth. Anyone lined up to repolace him?