Possible Director of Football

[Librarian]

There's good management reasons for separating managing the club, handling personnel and dealing with transfers (the administration and negotiation, but not the selection exclusively) and the coaching of the first team.

Firstly it relives some of the burden of management on the head coach, secondly it provides a single reporting structure for the junior team management and the general coaching staff.

In the case of Everton there's possibly a more Machiavellian reason - it significantly reduces the roles of our existing Chairman and CEO. It paves the way for Bill to be just a figurehead for the time he remains on the Board (if he's not looking for investors (as he was 24/7) or being involved directly with the manager what does he do?) other than a figurehead there's really no role for him. Similarly it frees up the CEO to just manage the business and as I said earlier today concentrate on growing revenues and building infrastructure. You can guess where I am going here

Total change of culture

 

[ToffeeDoug]

The funny thing is, Martinez would probably make a pretty good Director of Football.

-Solid eye for talent
-Knows how to sell the club to talented players
-Had strong ideas for Academy improvements
-Kept an eye on both the present and the future in the transfer window

If you take form out of the equation, Martinez built a fairly impressive foundation of talent at Everton. He just struggles to manage.

RM said right at the onset that he wanted a consistent coaching philosophy at every age group within the club. Wasn't Dennis Lawrence supposed to be the overseer in this respect?

 

[tim cahill]

The funny thing is, Martinez would probably make a pretty good Director of Football.

-Solid eye for talent
-Knows how to sell the club to talented players
-Had strong ideas for Academy improvements
-Kept an eye on both the present and the future in the transfer window

If you take form out of the equation, Martinez built a fairly impressive foundation of talent at Everton. He just struggles to manage.

Niasse though??

 

[Groucho]

Remember when 'joint managers' were in vogue in the 80's?

I always thought this was a similar thing but now I have a different view.

With the right personnel this could work.

 

[waggy27]

To be honest I thought that a good selling point for any new manager might be the lack of a Director of Football. Not many clubs even in England are prepared to give a manager total control of the transfer budget without interference, and so the club could attract a top manager based on this freedom to sign who they wanted.

I'm sure there have been many managers frustrated by players being purchased over their head and apart from Wenger there aren't many managers at big clubs who have total control over transfers as Martinez and Moyes did.

 

[JustOpp]

Niasse though??

If you can point out a manager who hasn't gotten a transfer wrong I'll gladly retract the bulletpoint.

That one is looking quite grim though, isn't it?

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Remember when 'joint managers' were in vogue in the 80's?

I always thought this was a similar thing but now I have a different view.

With the right personnel this could work.

Get the respective recruitment right and set the correct parameters then the upside is enormous. Get it wrong, which I don't think we will, and the downside could be a disaster.

 

[tim cahill]

If you can point out a manager who hasn't gotten a transfer wrong I'll gladly retract the bulletpoint.

That one is looking quite grim though, isn't it?

It's not just a bit wrong though. It's alarmingly bad.

But if you're going to ignore Niasse then it's only fair to ignore Lukaku as well. Without Rom his signings weren't that special.

 

[dan78]

Remember when 'joint managers' were in vogue in the 80's?

I always thought this was a similar thing but now I have a different view.

With the right personnel this could work.

Don't Salford FC still have joint mangers?!!!

 

[Scolari]

The funny thing is, Martinez would probably make a pretty good Director of Football.

-Solid eye for talent
-Knows how to sell the club to talented players
-Had strong ideas for Academy improvements
-Kept an eye on both the present and the future in the transfer window

If you take form out of the equation, Martinez built a fairly impressive foundation of talent at Everton. He just struggles to manage.

I agree with you on the academy improvements, but the more I think about Martinez recruitment over 3 years, the more I think it really wasn't that great.

He did bring in some quality individuals, but failed to replace key players in the team and did not address obvious weaknesses in the squad.

 

[mightymoyes]

To be honest I thought that a good selling point for any new manager might be the lack of a Director of Football. Not many clubs even in England are prepared to give a manager total control of the transfer budget without interference, and so the club could attract a top manager based on this freedom to sign who they wanted.

I'm sure there have been many managers frustrated by players being purchased over their head and apart from Wenger there aren't many managers at big clubs who have total control over transfers as Martinez and Moyes did.

i assume it would be a partnership with each having their own distinct roles. be interesting to see which is appointed first or maybe both together.

 

[Billy Dean]

Yes from me. We'd have to get him in before the 'head coach' or whatever though I reckon. He should have a role in the recruitment, would mitigate the risk of the 2 having problems working together in future.

 

[malfosse]

To be director of football you need somebody who is,

Liked by the chairman and the players

Find potential targets

Able to use their extensive scouting network

Able to spot good young players

Frugal in their spending on transfers

Lads may I present my candidate

 

[bizzaro]

To be director of football you need somebody who is,

Liked by the chairman and the players

Find potential targets

Able to use their extensive scouting network

Able to spot good young players

Frugal in their spending on transfers

Lads may I present my candidate

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Hmmm.....

 

[malfosse]

Hmmm.....

Don't dismiss it straight away, just think about it for a minute. I was going to say loved by the fans, but thought I might be pushing it.