TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
But turning the football club over to someone with a plan still means that there's a master plan in place. 75% of clubs don't have that. Getting into the league and staying there is way too basic.
What I'm talking about is someone coming in and saying "We are playing this formation, these are the types of players I need to make that work, these players that we have fit, these ones don't so sell them, these targets have the traits we need so sign them." I think about a quarter of the league actually does that and commits to it for multiple years. That is what Klopp and Pep did and that is what we need someone to do. Nothing about that is simple at all.
City have done it with Pep, RS have, Leicester look set to, Burnley have (although their version has clear limits even if they had unlimited money to spend) and I'd say that Wolves do under Nuno. When you look at those teams you can immediately see what there system is and where players fit. City have a whole second team that is completely interchangeable with the first. The RS have 6 CMs with the same skill set.
So how about Everton? We have 3 completely different CBs. 5 CMs with varying abilities that require an entire reset of the team when we switch them out. A bunch of attackers with skill sets that don't all the way fit into the same system. It's impossible to say that we've operated the last 5 years with some kind of grand vision for what the team would be at some point. It was never a complete plan even if at some point Koeman could say "Well this is how I will use these 3 #10s I bought at once," or Silva could say "This is the midfield shape I intend to use this year."
I get the feeling more clubs are doing what we've done than are committing to a vision that might take 3 to 5 years to implement. United and Spurs have certainly lost their way after Ferguson and Poch set things up correctly. Chelsea had a short term spell with Conte but honestly the time in between Mourinho spells is a great example of how much money it takes to keep things running when you have no discernible direction. There's countless other examples. But you seem to think that teams are smart by and large and that just is not the case.
