2019/20 Marcel Brands

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davek said:
TBF, if he did what he's supposed to do I wouldn't want to see or hear him. But seeing as he hasn't and has left us exposed all over the pitch after spending £200M since arriving here I would like to hear what the plan is.
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Presumably to (all in relation to the squad end of season 17/18):

Increase the monetary value of the squad - done
Lower the age profile of the squad - done
Reduce the size of the squad - done
Increase the resale value of the squad - done
Increase the commercial marketability of the squad - done
Increase the quality of the squad - done

Improve the results on the pitch - not done

I assumed that this final one would follow one rom the ones above (and maybe it still will but it hasn’t yet). Nevertheless I think the improvement of the squad window on window has been evident. Brands has a few problems though.

The state of that 17/18 squad was never truly appreciated by most Everton fans. It was an absolute disgrace so he was working from an unbelievably low base. This was further compounded by most of the squad stuck on ridiculous contracts and wages. So he effectively picked up one of the poorest squads in the league and had his hands tied trying to move them on by the previous management team.

He also has to deal with Moshiri and Kenwright who we know are both overly emotional publicity chasing figures who have numerous times tried to negotiate for a ‘statement’ name.

The final problem in my eyes links to number 1 which is because that squad was so poor if Brands makes wholesale changes too quickly (which he can’t because we can’t sell to generate funds) what little squad cohesion goes out the window. If he turns it over too slowly then you’re left with the likes of Schneiderlin and Siggurdson who would gladly get any manager fired to save their own careers at Everton.

He’s picked up what is in my eyes a ridiculously hard job. Trying to turn around possibly the most incompetent footballing outfit in the premier league after Koemaggedon. He’s made errors yes but on the overall balance sheet I still think he’s doing and ok job. Silva needs to make better use of what he’s got as some of his excuses don’t wash when he has the likes of Bernard Iwobi Kean (his buys) sat on the bench whilst DCL Siggurdson and Walcott (not his buys) all start.
 


I think Richarlison is 98% a Silva buy and he has increased his value slightly.

Digne is the only Brands signing who has increased his value for me.

Also he presided over selling one of the best holding mids in world football when still on a long term contract for 30 mill.

Apart from getting rid of some dead wood which anyone could do I dont see anything decent in what he has done.

As Dave said there were 3 obvious holes this summer,

1) CB - nothing, not 1 signing.
2) CM - Gomes (slow, inhury prone), Gbamin ??
3) CF - a 19 year old foreign kid

Seriously I cannot possibly see how that is defensible.
 
davek said:
His signings so far:

1/ Indisputable signing success: Digne

2/ Good purchase: Richarlison, Gomes

3/ Decent for fee paid/on a free: Bernard, Delph

4/ Poor buys for cash paid: Mina, Iwobi, Gbamin, Kean (over £100M wasted on these alone).


Worryingly the last two categories are predominated by this summer's deals, so he cant even be said to be getting the hang of it.

The feller has a very basic and average play book on players and fees. It's very iffy (and very expensive when they fail to come off).

He's basically a super agent's hand maid, and that's why we dangle on the end of a piece of string in summer windows, waiting to see what falls in his lap in the £25M-£30M range that others dont want.

I'd like to be like the majority on here and be certain that the big problem is the manager. Unfortunately it goes deeper than that: the problem is the man who employs the managers and buys the players.

We are in a real fix here with Brands, and that's one of the reasons I knew the DoF role for this club was all wrong.
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I am afraid the shine is a bit tarnished on that one, Dave.

He has really gone backwards this season :(
 
I dont think he had a hard job when he came in.

We have the 6/7th highest wage bill and regularly finish about 8th and get knocked out early in cups,

All he had to do with the hundreds of milions was buy a top class forward, a top class centre mid to replace gueye a pacey centre half
and some strong characters,

Anything approaching the above and we would finish at least 7th, pushing higher and have a run at a cup.

He has bought none of the above.
 
HKIV said:
I dont think he had a hard job when he came in.

We have the 6/7th highest wage bill and regularly finish about 8th and get knocked out early in cups,

All he had to do with the hundreds of milions was buy a top class forward, a top class centre mid to replace gueye a pacey centre half
and some strong characters,

Anything approaching the above and we would finish at least 7th, pushing higher and have a run at a cup.

He has bought none of the above.
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He had to reduce a large, extremely large wage bill so the club could meet FFP, how do people still not get this?
 

HKIV said:
Ok so thats why no centre forward, centre half and a dubious centre mid.

I take it we are just hoping to stay in the prem then?
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We signed a centre forward, we know who we wanted for centre back but circumstances went against us and then we went with a back up which also didn’t pan out, who’s the dubious centre mid?

Absolutely boggles the mind that narrow minded people think that we should have just kept adding to an already bloated squad without any consequences coming from it, it’s not sustainable unless you are a club that can affordably manage it
 
Boggles my mind we have an owner pumping untold hundreds of millions into the club.

We are spending multiple millions every year on a DOF, managers and players that are expected to improve us.

We have gone nowhere in 4 years despite this incredible investment on `improved' DOF/Manager/Players.

But the most mind boggling aspect of all this is that there are Evertonian apologists for all this mess.
 
Saint Domingo said:
Presumably to (all in relation to the squad end of season 17/18):

Increase the monetary value of the squad - done
Lower the age profile of the squad - done
Reduce the size of the squad - done
Increase the resale value of the squad - done
Increase the commercial marketability of the squad - done
Increase the quality of the squad - done

Improve the results on the pitch - not done

I assumed that this final one would follow one rom the ones above (and maybe it still will but it hasn’t yet). Nevertheless I think the improvement of the squad window on window has been evident. Brands has a few problems though.

The state of that 17/18 squad was never truly appreciated by most Everton fans. It was an absolute disgrace so he was working from an unbelievably low base. This was further compounded by most of the squad stuck on ridiculous contracts and wages. So he effectively picked up one of the poorest squads in the league and had his hands tied trying to move them on by the previous management team.

He also has to deal with Moshiri and Kenwright who we know are both overly emotional publicity chasing figures who have numerous times tried to negotiate for a ‘statement’ name.

The final problem in my eyes links to number 1 which is because that squad was so poor if Brands makes wholesale changes too quickly (which he can’t because we can’t sell to generate funds) what little squad cohesion goes out the window. If he turns it over too slowly then you’re left with the likes of Schneiderlin and Siggurdson who would gladly get any manager fired to save their own careers at Everton.

He’s picked up what is in my eyes a ridiculously hard job. Trying to turn around possibly the most incompetent footballing outfit in the premier league after Koemaggedon. He’s made errors yes but on the overall balance sheet I still think he’s doing and ok job. Silva needs to make better use of what he’s got as some of his excuses don’t wash when he has the likes of Bernard Iwobi Kean (his buys) sat on the bench whilst DCL Siggurdson and Walcott (not his buys) all start.
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As you say, it's a low base to measure all that from, still...

- I'm not sure of your category of commercial marketability of the squad. What do you mean by that, how has it been 'increased' and what's its significance?

- Reduced the size of the squad - an achievement when you get shut on the cheap or let go on a free or just wait for the contract to expire?

- Increase the resale value of the squad? In theory.

- Increase the quality of the squad? I'm really not sure the first team as presently constituted is a vastly improved affair - even with £200M+ spent on it. Any improvement is marginal.
 

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