Director of Football Model

[GrandOldTeam]

Is it right for Everton?

It offers a bigger plan and continuity?

Or does it muddy the water?

Who is responsible for every transfer this window? Ancelotti, Brands? Or do you accept the narrative around a seamless collaborative approach.

Poll added, no middle ground of course. Pick a side and argue to the death.

 

[KaiserEFC]

I just want us to stop wasting epic amounts of money on poor players. We seem to have done that more with a DoF than we did before we had one. Of course we were skint before the DoF so it’s a tricky comparison but we seemingly got more transfers right didn’t we?

Most clubs appear to use them with success so is it just a case of Everton not utilising them properly or possibly giving them too much of a free reign without correct checks and balances?

In short I have no idea what to make of it if I’m honest but I’m quite bored of us being able to on our day, be the worst team to watch in the league despite compiling one of the most expensive squads in Europe.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Is it right for Everton?

It offers a bigger plan and continuity?

Or does it muddy the water?

Who is responsible for every transfer this window? Ancelotti, Brands? Or do you accept the narrative around a seamless collaborative approach.

Poll added, no middle ground of course. Pick a side and argue to the death.

Without it you're placing an extra task on the manager of identifying, scouting and recruiting as well as balancing FFP. That's on top of coaching the team and all the rest. And that goes for youth recruitment too, we know (for example) Mourinho has no interest in youth development but Spurs as a club have to be interested in it. That's why they have a head of recruitment.

I don't believe there's a manager in football who is showing up at work and saying "who's that fella?" There must be some give and take in terms of either identifying roles or specific players and working with the DoF to bring as close to the vision as possible on board.

The downside is of course when you have a club, a DoF and a manager not aligned in their thinking or an utter maniac like Ed Woodward in charge.

 

[Bob Latchford]

Walsh & now Brands (So far) have been as close to disastrous as you can get. A few hits in the transfer market a lot of bad buys.

miss matched and lop sided team. Gaps in defence and midfield.

multiple managers failing under the system.

patchy league form.

no better than the previous system and probably a bit worse than normal and a lot worse than the stability of Moyes and Kenright.

still no answer as to how to break that glass ceiling.

 

[Blue Juice]

Think it does work, think you run into trouble maybe when your manager is 100x more accomplished than the DoF. Logic says you stick with the DoF as that's the model, head says you give the champions league winning manager exactly what he asks for

 

[orly]

Without it you're placing an extra task on the manager of identifying, scouting and recruiting as well as balancing FFP. That's on top of coaching the team and all the rest. And that goes for youth recruitment too, we know (for example) Mourinho has no interest in youth development but Spurs as a club have to be interested in it. That's why they have a head of recruitment.

I don't believe there's a manager in football who is showing up at work and saying "who's that fella?" There must be some give and take in terms of either identifying roles or specific players and working with the DoF to bring as close to the vision as possible on board.

The downside is of course when you have a club, a DoF and a manager not aligned in their thinking or an utter maniac like Ed Woodward in charge.

Ed Woodward turbo-charged their commercial agreements to such an extent they could easily shoulder a failure like Lukaku. Hardly a maniac, and not much of an example of a "bad" DoF.

 

[Lanolin]

My big concern is that it should offer a bigger plan and continuity, but there's no evidence that it is in our model. Obviously things may be a lot better behind the scenes, but from the outside you'd have to say that things look a bit haphazard, and it isn't always clear who's behind what. In theory I like it, in practice i'm yet to be convinced.

 

[Zatara]

Do we want Ancelotti as manager?

Yes = DOF model

 

[jazzy]

I would prefer a system where the Manager is primarily responsible for identifying the players that he wants to bring into the first team squad.

The role of the DoF should be to recruit those players and set up a scouting network to identify and recruit younger talent for the youth and lower level teams.

 

[john jako]

The model is sound and works well. All depends who is running the model though. Looks like we have got some blagger in charge of ours.

 

[maccavennie]

The word you use @GrandOldTeam "continuity" is what worries me most. Because I don't see any continuity and no identity since he's been here which I assume is what a DoF is supposed to bring.

I'm assuming we purchased players for Silva to fit round a 433 formation so when the manager gets sacked a new one comes in and is supposed to play the same style as that's the identity. Yes as soon as Silva was sacked, Ferguson changed it to 442 and Ancelotti has pretty much kept that formation. So did Brands agree to this and if so, is that him saying the identity of the way we want to play he was wrong about. The u23's have never played a system anything like the 1st team so again, there's no identity or continuity for a player coming from the u23's to the 1st team. Is that Unsworths fault or Brands? Is Unsworth told just to coach them on the tactical side or has Brands simply left him to it.

There's certainly no way Brands deserves a free ride. Walsh was rightly criticised for doing an awful job. As things stand, you'd be hard pushed to give Brands anything more than a 6 out of 10.

 

[Hickson9]

A club of Evertons size is too big for an old school manager, in charge of everything in the modern game.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Do we want Ancelotti as manager?

Yes = DOF model

We introduced DoF model in 2016.

Look how erratic the bigger picture continuity has been;

Koeman, Allardyce, Silva, Ancelotti.

 

[ToffeeTim]

I don't see the point of it when Ancelotti is our manager and is a lot better qualified to judge a player than the DOF.

There's been a complete lack of accountability and strategy ever since we appointed Walsh. Maybe I'm naive, old fashioned or unaware how these things work, but I don't see how this system has made us better on the pitch.

 

[Lelouch]

Think it's mandatory in steps to becoming a top club tbh but as per Everton go about it in the most janky way possible, I like Brands but work needs to be done this summer.