Steve Walsh - no longer our Director of Football

[Blue toffee]

Agreed but the Rooney thing annoys me. Its true, he does drop too deep, the thing I don't get is why does nobody just tell him to stop doing it. Its like everyone is scared of him.

Just leave him up front and tell him to shoot when the ball comes near him. Seems obvious enough to me.

They may well tell him to stop doing it. I think part of the problem is, once on the pitch, Rooney does what Rooney wants.

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

I know but they only went looking for a LCB/LB when he got injured. The reality is they needed one before that. Had they looked earlier then they would have been able to get one.

But...... for some reason we spent £50m on Sigurdsson instead.

Yes, we did. We've needed one since we sold Oviedo at least.

We need clarification on his role so that we can assign some accountability.

Does he only sign/scout players that fall under a particular age category?
Does he have the final say on signings for the first team?
Does he have nothing to do with first team signings?
Does he work alongside the Manager and they both decide who and who not to sign?

The fact he is still in his job suggests the board don't think he is culpable, or at least is less culpable than Koeman was.

 

[maccavennie]

If he was held accountable even just for supposedly checking on a players character he's be out the door already because the gang of whoppers we've signed this summer don't seem to have a drop of character between them ( expect Pickford )

 

[LiamG]

Yes, we did. We've needed one since we sold Oviedo at least.

The fact he is still in his job suggests the board don't think he is culpable, or at least is less culpable than Koeman was.

I think they are clutching at straws. It has already been hugely expensive to get rid of Koeman. Walsh would be another financial hit plus where would it leave our recruitment plans going into a massively important transfer window.

However we don't know. Koeman may have said that a RB and LB weren't important. Maybe it's just not Walsh's job to identify the areas that need players.

 

[Royalbm1]

This chap needs to pull a blinder in January to hold his job imo

 

[Khalekan]

I think they are clutching at straws. It has already been hugely expensive to get rid of Koeman. Walsh would be another financial hit plus where would it leave our recruitment plans going into a massively important transfer window.

However we don't know. Koeman may have said that a RB and LB weren't important. Maybe it's just not Walsh's job to identify the areas that need players.

And this is the thing, Liam.

None of us knows what Walsh’s role in this fiasco was.

For all we know Koeman might have had the power to veto any suggestion Walsh made.

Or overrule any cautionary words about signing players he wanted himself.

I suspect that was the case, hence Koeman being sent packing.

But as I say.....that is pure speculation on my behalf as, like everyone else on here, I just don’t know what went down.

 

[riddick]

I'm still in a bit of shock at how terrible our window was this summer.

 

[neil999]

I don't like alot of the criticism he gets as we don't know the reasons we signed who we did..

However -

he's a socut who has NEVER held a position like this in his life, why was he appointed?

 

[orly]

Root and branch review.

Walsh to be clobbered with both before sacking

 

[neil999]

Root and branch review.

Walsh to be clobbered with both before sacking

Do you reckon this is actually happening?? i wonder if he will go before we appoint a new manager, great idea to bring him in...as head of scouting not DOF

 

[billyblue80]

He should be demoted back to a scout, which is all he's qualified for!!

 

[Joey66]

He should be demoted back to a scout, which is all he's qualified for!!

Noticed he is showing his face now involved on match day never seen him when kon man was manager!

 

[Agent Blue]

Demote him to Head Scout.
Do we really need a DOF? surely it would make recruitment of a new manager easier, as some candidates may not want to work with one.

 

[foxedup]

I don't like alot of the criticism he gets as we don't know the reasons we signed who we did..

However -

he's a socut who has NEVER held a position like this in his life, why was he appointed?

He was more than a scout at Leicester, he was assistant manager for starters so he had more influence on the manager than he has now. As part of his role in heading up the recruitment side here he pretty much set up the deals and then handed it over to the DOF here to finalise the final details, it's not that much of a step up.

We had zero problems here with holes being left in the squad and that was working on a budget of a couple of million. If he's targeted Sig' over a left back (for arguments sake) it's because the manager had prioritised that position, or wasn't overly worried about those positions.

The Walsh you lot describe doesn't resemble the one we had here, which leads me to believe Koeman's opinions were an issue.

 

[Billy Dean]