Strategic Review of club

[Pazza]

Hi All,

I am by no way an expert. I do have a question though. Does anyone know who is doing the strategic review of the club. I do believe this is needed more now than ever. However, if it is being led by DB, Bill, Sharpy then is that not a problem right there? Surely we need an outside team to do this for it to be real? Any thoughts? Also what are the rumours of Cahill joining?

Thanks
Paz

 

[nsno-chris]

With Moshiri at the helm, I wouldn’t trust anyone associated with him to do a strategic review

It’ll probably be Kia the rat in all honesty

 

[perth_blue]

From what I've seen happen with other clubs, overviews are conducted by external parties.
These could be audit firms that review each department and whether KPIs were being met by their respective area.
Playing staff also have input on the football aspects of the club - not necessarily ex Everton will be be doing this however.
It's a top to bottom review of the club. And can take a good few weeks to months to be done completely. It's not something that is completed quickly.

Then the report will show the areas of concern etc. That would require changes to be implemented.

As said before, it's a full on process and not something that should be banded about half heartedly by the board to dodge criticism.

 

[chrismpw]

Have we tried Pat Rice .... he's already suggested putting the club in sawdust so I hear.

 

[ToffeeTim]

It's basically an exercise of marking your own work. Couldn't be any more pointless. If they were serious about it, then external experts would have been brought in to do the assessments.

 

[nevsonlymate]

I cant see them releasing the report warts and all it will be watered down to say mistakes were made and they must try harder very similar to all my old school reports

 

[dublinbluenose]

Sue Gray

 

[perth_blue]

I cant see them releasing the report warts and all it will be watered down to say mistakes were made and they must try harder very similar to all my old school reports

Moshiri would excel at his work if he wasn't distracted so easily by his workmates.

 

[Abertonian]

According to the twitter space thing last night Cahill and Sharp

 

[brucemate]

From what I've seen happen with other clubs, overviews are conducted by external parties.
These could be audit firms that review each department and whether KPIs were being met by their respective area.
Playing staff also have input on the football aspects of the club - not necessarily ex Everton will be be doing this however.
It's a top to bottom review of the club. And can take a good few weeks to months to be done completely. It's not something that is completed quickly.

Then the report will show the areas of concern etc. That would require changes to be implemented.

As said before, it's a full on process and not something that should be banded about half heartedly by the board to dodge criticism.

Unfortunately rumours to date indicate that this is more about whether or not we go with a DOF and give them the authority or share out those responsibilities to various members of the coaching team.

In my view, this is a total sham as I have stated before that I do not believe the club has a proper documented and costed strategy/business plan.
Any employee needs to know what they are expected to deliver by the inclusion of performance indicators within the plan. These have got be be more detailed than say an ambition to qualify for europe.

Currently our only strategy appears to be qualify for europe and hope Moshiri will continue to invest. This is not fit for purpose.

The Board are responsible for setting the route forward to develop the business together with identifying how resources will be provided to facilitate this. The CEO should be involved in those discussions.

I have no faith whatsoever that any of this has ever taken place and do not believe our current owner/board will commit the time required to do so. We have an absent owner and a part-time Chairman who must be constantly juggling plates to meet the needs of his other business.

Ou CEO has a background in education which does not provide the necessary experience required to turn around a multi million pound commercial business. Also Moshiri's involvement with Usmanov gives rise to the view that they have been very lucky and not had to grow a business from the ground up.

Against this backdrop, it is no wonder we are struggling. Any strategic review should include the performances of the board and owner. Until that happens, I fear more of the same.

 

[nevsonlymate]

According to the twitter space thing last night Cahill and Sharp

Well Bills going to get a big fat 10 out of 10 for effort

 

[GrandOldTeam]

I think it's a reactive, head patting exercise unfortunately.

 

[Pazza]

yes totally agree here. To be we have done so much good stuff off the pitch with EiTC etc. But on the pitch things are a shambles. We are not moving forward is there a plan. With out a real shake up and football people on the board running things not Bill or Denise then i dont think things will change. We need a real board made up of football/commercial people. I am no expert but the whole club needs to change.
I live in Wilmslow and was speaking to someone at my sons football club. He is head scout at a football club close by with great connections due to his playing and managerial career. He said the whole youth set up needs to change to at Everton. Unsworth is only interested in growing his CV with what he has won not interested in bringing youth through, we have lost and will continue to loose players if this does not change. He has no reason to lie so wanted to share.

 

[Nymzee]

Hi All,

I am by no way an expert. I do have a question though. Does anyone know who is doing the strategic review of the club. I do believe this is needed more now than ever. However, if it is being led by DB, Bill, Sharpy then is that not a problem right there? Surely we need an outside team to do this for it to be real? Any thoughts? Also what are the rumours of Cahill joining?

Thanks
Paz

Moshiri
Bill
Denise
Sharpy

 

[APN_EFC]

Hi All,

I am by no way an expert. I do have a question though. Does anyone know who is doing the strategic review of the club. I do believe this is needed more now than ever. However, if it is being led by DB, Bill, Sharpy then is that not a problem right there? Surely we need an outside team to do this for it to be real? Any thoughts? Also what are the rumours of Cahill joining?

Thanks
Paz

It's a good point actually , because if it's an internal review it's a bit like Boris doing his own 'independent' enquiries into his own crimes. FM, DBB and BK might end up saying 'we didn't know that there was anything wrong with the club, nobody told us. Even if anything was going wrong, we didn't intend to make any mistakes!'

It would be amazing even if DBB just interviewed people, like ex-players, media pundits, experts in Germany, Spain etc as well as PL and Championship to find some ideas about how to do things really well (and badly, from mistakes too).
Learn from clubs like the red bull group, man city, even forest green, brighton, those successful 'punch above their weight' clubs in Scandinavia etc. ...

Even if we don't formally have an independent reviewer - which we should actually - we could at least gather diverse, innovative views from a wide spectrum of clubs and learn from them.

I've listed some quick ideas off the top of my head - obviously man city is huge, but the way they have gone about their work has been more strategic. Forest green is tiny, but it's so clever how they have developed a unique identity - and lots of other examples in between...