New Everton Owners: The Friedkin Group

[jazzy]

I'd do the 4 loans, after all we dont 'need' a huge number of starters.

Then i'd probably go for Tagliafico & Walker on frees. Simply because we already have Mykolenko & O'Brien so we wont be losing anything from this season.

Thats 6 players signed for 0 transfer fees.

Then of course I'd be looking at the obvious 3 positions at CM, RW & CF.

Anything over, i'd be trying for a young CB.


However, there are of course exceptions to this. Such as if a top notch u23 full back became available for an attainable fee.

I wonder who Moyes was watching in the US in the Benfica game. Carreras for Benfica is class and was going to Madrid but they wont pay the £35mil fee.

Who knows?

In broad terms I agree with that strategy Zat but I'm far from sure that I'd want Kyle Walker, free or not , at the club.

I think we can do better and less disruptive on a free .

 

[Bluesnapper]

It’s why we will see the Walkers, Walker Peters etc and loans if we can get them.

If we are going to focus quality in certain areas, compromises or stop gaps will need to be made in others.

Think the strategy needs to be to revamp the goalscoring areas first before looking after other areas.

 

[DaChunk]

"Following a comprehensive recruitment process, the Club has appointed Nick Cox as Technical Director, James Smith as Director of Scouting and Recruitment, Chris Howarth to direct the Club's football strategy & analytics operations and Nick Hammond to lead the Club's player trading activity."

 

[Exeter_Gently]

"Following a comprehensive recruitment process, the Club has appointed Nick Cox as Technical Director, James Smith as Director of Scouting and Recruitment, Chris Howarth to direct the Club's football strategy & analytics operations and Nick Hammond to lead the Club's player trading activity."

Hopefully they "Make Everton mid table again".

 

[bluenose 84]

Looks like we are seriously getting it together off the pitch now- no longer jobs for the boys but a serious long term vision.

 

[Amokachi1995]

Think most of us wanted a more professional forward looking management of the club. At least these appointments seem to be an attempt to do that.

 

[HalfTimeSayers]

Some serious experience coming in there across a very broad range of operations. Actually quite mad.

Whilst it’s very possible we may have offered stupid money, they have very solid reputations and CVs they won’t want to tarnish. Would like to think that getting all of them in says a lot about the plans for the clubs progress they have been shown, and importantly the resources that will be made available to them.

 

[brieverton]

Nick Cox does appear to be a very good appointment in particular. One that bodes well for the long-term.

Kinnear has hit the ground running with this restructure. This is the sort of thing other clubs take for granted but we haven't really had a lot of joined-up thinking at Everton.

 

[Infernus]

Can't wait to hear how bringing in top performers at all levels of the club is actually a bad thing, and we don't need all of this structure, foresight and joined up thinking. Popcorn at the ready.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

We've got our own Fab Four.

 

[n01efc]

I’m optimistic this structure works - purely on the basis of the amount of experience they bring.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Can't find a corp website for Insight Sports for a deeper dig

 

[Noble Savage]

So not have we appointed some real professionals we actually own a data analytics firm too .

 

[Neiler]

Nick Cox does appear to be a very good appointment in particular. One that bodes well for the long-term.

Kinnear has hit the ground running with this restructure. This is the sort of thing other clubs take for granted but we haven't really had a lot of joined-up thinking at Everton.

Looks like the culmination of months of recruitment work mate.

What impressive is the flow of professionals from City & Utd, rather than vice versa - it begs the question of their motivation and what turned their head about the Everton project sufficiently to leave two of the biggest high profile clubs in the world - curious.

Another interesting facet is the purchase of insight sports lock stock by TFG to be used by the group to improve analytics.

Really does feel like a 360 execution of a plan.

Jim Smith looks on gardening leave for this window - though we’ve been linked with a lot of youth p,Ayers City have as well…..

 

[Exeter_Gently]

So not have we appointed some real professionals we actually own a data analytics firm too .

The Friedkins have bought said data firm apparently.