PSV Playing Style

[kev]

Brands' opening statement on joining makes clear he has a true European DoF role with full football authority, a massive change from Walsh who was a puffed up Chief Scout. Silva/ANO will be a Head Coach NOT a manager in the traditional British style. A good DoF build close relationships with his HC and works hand in glove with them but the DoF is the senior partner as he is the continuity and he has the long-term strategy/vision.

The DoF sets over-arching football parameters (e.g. is the Everton-way 4-4-2/4-2-3-1/4-3-3/5-4-1...tiki-taka vs. hoofball, high press vs. counter-punch). He also controls training facilities, support staff/medical/sports science and longer-term permanent coaching positions e.g. academy, coaching succession planning. In addition the DoF controls transfer policy e.g. target player ages for first team, valuations, attributes/player types from youth to first team.

The Head Coach is recommended by the DoF (not by the owner/Board) and is expected to fit broadly within the approach set out for the club as a whole by the DoF. The HC has some control over his staff but not total as the DoF may well insist on retaining some staff/succession planning/continuity. The HC controls how to organise training, select teams, motivate/get the most out of the players provided within the broad scheme/ethos set by the DoF. If the HC wants to make significant changes in style and/or target different types of player then this is discussed with the DoF who either agrees, in which case those changes are flowed through the whole structure from youth to first team, or disagrees in which case the HC either accepts and gets on with it or is replaced.

We need to forget everything we think a "manager" does/should do and adapt to this new reality. Of course Silva will have some influence on transfers (positions/attributes he wants) and some ability to tinker with tactics (e.g. varying style/formation during a season for different games) but the overall strategy/ethos, approach and player acquisition/sale decisions rest with Brands who is arguably the single most important figure in the football success of this rebooted Moshiri Everton.

Hallelujah
somebody 'gets it'

 

[Pab Laa]

I second that! Thanks

 

[Pab Laa]

Great piece, seems the way forward to me!

 

[Pab Laa]

Ha! I doubt they'd let us take their manager too but that'd be the perfect transition

 

[Pab Laa]

Yup, I agree!

 

[Barnfred 55]

Quite obviously, you can’t handle someone having a different opinion. I got no problem with people having a different opinion, you’re the one that was insulting and extremely arrogant in your reply because you didn’t agree. So, whatever. Is it your time of month?

Ok mate.

Already looking forward to our next chat.

 

[banno]

This DOF confuses me. What posters are saying is he has full control on players and style. Who ever comes in will not be manager but a coach. I cannot see it being so black & white. Surely the Manager/Coach will have some say on type of player he wants also or I cannot see it working. Both have got to agree on the players because if a coach thinks a player is crap then how is it going to work. The coach picks his team and Brands is unhappy about the line up equals conflict. Can't get my head around it on how it will work without greater input from the Manager/Coach on player selection. I can understand an agreement on style but surely they have to agree on players coming in and going out.

I suppose what I am asking is will Brands have complete power on players coming and going or will they work hand in hand in that respect.

 

[Sharpattack]

Did he think Neymar was worth a couple of hundred million?

 

[Samandsam]

This DOF confuses me. What posters are saying is he has full control on players and style. Who ever comes in will not be manager but a coach. I cannot see it being so black & white. Surely the Manager/Coach will have some say on type of player he wants also or I cannot see it working. Both have got to agree on the players because if a coach thinks a player is crap then how is it going to work. The coach picks his team and Brands is unhappy about the line up equals conflict. Can't get my head around it on how it will work without greater input from the Manager/Coach on player selection. I can understand an agreement on style but surely they have to agree on players coming in and going out.

I suppose what I am asking is will Brands have complete power on players coming and going or will they work hand in hand in that respect.

If you can’t get your head around mate, just ask @Barnfred 55. He knows. The lot.

 

[Rooney4Ever]

He's the DOF not the manager ffs

 

[Andy_Oz]

Not totally convinced by the “DOF model”, but get the idea behind it... Except I don’t think the DOF should be telling a coach what formation he should be playing, surely that’s down to the coach approaching each game on its own merit? Otherwise the DOF is effectively the manager and the head coach is simply one of his coaching staff?!

Anyway, sounds like it would suddenly make the head coach role more accessible to someone like Arteta (especially if he’s already that highly regarded as just that - a coach...).

Not necessarily for/against any of this... just nice that there is hope again that next season might be more than just a bit of hoofball...

 

[Barnfred 55]

This DOF confuses me. What posters are saying is he has full control on players and style. Who ever comes in will not be manager but a coach. I cannot see it being so black & white. Surely the Manager/Coach will have some say on type of player he wants also or I cannot see it working. Both have got to agree on the players because if a coach thinks a player is crap then how is it going to work. The coach picks his team and Brands is unhappy about the line up equals conflict. Can't get my head around it on how it will work without greater input from the Manager/Coach on player selection. I can understand an agreement on style but surely they have to agree on players coming in and going out.

I suppose what I am asking is will Brands have complete power on players coming and going or will they work hand in hand in that respect.

I think you're right mate. The relationship between the DoF and manager/head coach will have to be spot on otherwise I can't see it working either.

If I was manager I'd want some input into the players being brought in and also those leaving, and you'd like to think that the two at least discuss each outgoing/incoming player before the final decision is made. I'm not saying the manager should always get his way. For instance, just say we want to spend £40m on an incoming CB. The manager says he would prefer to keep Funes Mori and bin Jags, but we can get £20m fee by selling FM, which we need if we're to spend so much on the incoming player. So we bin FM.

Whilst the relationship between the 2 is important, I also think it's equally important that their roles are clearly defined. The manager should have full control of team matters. Not saying Brands can't offer advice etc, but decision making has to rest with the manager, and provided he's working pretty much within the parameters set regarding style of play etc, there shouldn't be a problem as long as the results stack up. Brands has been a DoF for over 10 years and you'd like to think he's experienced enough not to cross the line when to comes to team matters.

This is all new to us so I'm sure most of us have concerns over how it is going to pan out. But at least things will be a bit clearer than they were under Koeman/Walsh and Allardyce/Walsh when we had no idea who was doing what. The system works with lots of clubs on the continent and time will tell whether it's a system that works well here. I don't think any Premier club has embraced the system as fully as we're about to and I think it's exciting and worrying in equal measures.

 

[BlueToff]

He's the DOF not the manager ffs

And going forward he will be more important than the manager to where the club is heading

 

[BlueToff]

Not totally convinced by the “DOF model”, but get the idea behind it... Except I don’t think the DOF should be telling a coach what formation he should be playing, surely that’s down to the coach approaching each game on its own merit? Otherwise the DOF is effectively the manager and the head coach is simply one of his coaching staff?!

Anyway, sounds like it would suddenly make the head coach role more accessible to someone like Arteta (especially if he’s already that highly regarded as just that - a coach...).

Not necessarily for/against any of this... just nice that there is hope again that next season might be more than just a bit of hoofball...

That's not what Brands will do mate.

Brands will work on the long-term plan and where the club as a whole wants to go. For a manager to get the job they will buy into that and work under Brands to an extent. It's more a two-way relationship.

Brands won't get involved in picking the team or the system or anything else. That's down to the manager.

 

[Rooney4Ever]

And going forward he will be more important than the manager to where the club is heading

Rubbish, absolute rubbish. No one is more important than the manager.

Buying a few players means little if the club don't know how to use them