Recent content by hetion

That's an Everton/Moshiri thing, not a DoF thing. It's not so much that a DoF structure is amazing (there are other structures that work too), it's that handing it all to the manager is terrible nowadays. I can't name a single club that broke into the top level of quality by doing that certainly...

Reading that report is absolutely grim. Handing the reigns of the rebuild to the manager is bananas. 15 years out of date strategy. Speaks volumes that they wanted to keep Purdy but he left rather than finally have some money to spend.

An entire recruitment setup having to come in and immediately undertake the biggest rebuild the club has had in years with 0 prep is a recipe for total disaster lol. Extremely Everton

Gonna be a lot of this this summer. Feels like there's been a LOT less leaks from the club since the takeover, things being done more quietly generally. Major head loss incoming imo

~450 minutes is a small sample size and a lot of these are off the bench which will skew numbers a bit. Regardless, these are absolutely banger numbers for someone who's just dropped into the team and is still only 22. He's also 98th (!) percentile for passes into the penalty area and 91st for...

Played some fantastic long balls today.

Are they thinking about buying him? Mad to start him if not.

Screams Moyes player to me stylistically. Does everything he's been setting us up to do - work hard and transition fast.

Yeah I'm no scout but like...what? If we're actually interested and this guy turns out to be a good player then the recruitment guy who picked him has the best eye in the game, because this lad factually does absolutely nothing currently apart from win some headers because he's a bit tall. Baffled.

If age doesn't matter then the entire recruitment department needs replacing. I don't think that's the case.

Toyota is the only shout here seeing as we absolutely have to have some grim megacorp emblazoned on us. Respectable vibes, clean logo.

Our best player.

Anyone got insight into what kind of player he is?

Can't make any assessments til after the window (or more likely, til after next season) but I have one eyebrow raised at this appointment in a way that would put Ancelotti to shame.

This would be amazing.