Brilliant post. It's actually embarassing when you read that and then watch Walsh on the Everton Show.
Watched quite a bit of the Bundesliga the last few years and whenever clubs are at pre or mid season camps along with players and head coach interviews there's always one from the DoF/Sporting Director and always in the manner Monchi talks about above.
Quite simply we've given a scout a ridiculous title and it's a real shame cos it means we're at least a year behind putting a proper structure in place. Get rid of the old guard and embrace meritocracy not romanticism.
Agree mate, moshiri has the right ideas but in putting them into practise he's showing a woeful naivety about 'knowing football', question for me us I believe he has been taking advice from those longer in the game. Whose motives are dubious for the club at best.
A strong and competent top dof would not best serve the interests of kenwright and elstone and even a lot if the backroom and background staff at the club. Because frankly his first suggestion to moshiri would be a riot and branch cleaning out of the club.
Walsh was sold to him on the 'winning the league for Leicester' narrative, ignoring the fact they almost got relegated the year before with the self same walshes player choices , Newcastle similarly almost and ultimately went down because of his work as head of recruitment for allardyce there. And the man has bounced around numerous clubs with varying degrees of success and failure, and frankly got exceptionally lucky with signings at Leicester.
Didn't they actually want a different player for example than kante, and only got him when the first choice chose elsewhere, and interestingly the player subsequently was a flop, similarly mahrez wasn't the player he sent scouts to watch and it was only on the scouts watching the game he became a target for them, so not actually walshes fabled knowledge of stats and players...
One sticking poi t to any ambitious or proven manager in my eyes would be them having to be on the same page as someone who frankly is not deserving of the job, responsibility or profile.
Want a director of football then headhunt a good one, don't instead hire a good scout whose not up to the job and who hasn't a clue about how to do the role.
