Steve Walsh - no longer our Director of Football

Steve Walsh as DOF

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Azza said:
I find that hard to believe.

Giroud was in the building. A number was put a side for Costa. After 2 failures I don't see why Koeman would then refuse strikers.
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Who knows. I'm more inclined to believe than disbelieve it. Would fit with Koemans belligerent inflexible attitude. Just imagine it: - I want A, at a push I might take B. Don't even bother me with C because I'll be on the golf course.
 
People seem desperate to point the finger at somebody so that they can apportion blame. I'm not sure why there's so much confusion over what his role is, I would have thought that's pretty obvious. He's a talent spotter isn't he. That's what his background is and that's what he'll be doing it Everton. You can't seriously believe that he's been put in charge of working out the contracts for the players involved? He won't be responsible for whether or not a player arrives here, that'll be down to the manager
 
Walter Ego said:
People seem desperate to point the finger at somebody so that they can apportion blame. I'm not sure why there's so much confusion over what his role is, I would have thought that's pretty obvious. He's a talent spotter isn't he. That's what his background is and that's what he'll be doing it Everton. You can't seriously believe that he's been put in charge of working out the contracts for the players involved? He won't be responsible for whether or not a player arrives here, that'll be down to the manager
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The confusion being that if what you say is true, then he's the first DOF to not be in charge of doing deals for new players. That's a key aspect of my understanding of the role.
 

Kenshin said:
I highly doubt koeman rejected any centre forward or centre half offered to him this summer. To be honest koeman suggests he had very little to do with it all hence why he was playing the team he was given and not arsed to change anything (I have my theory as to why but off the point).

The reality is, although here and there a few players signed were good business, together they have been terrible. It would be Walsh's job to manage who is coming in and out of the club, far more than koeman. So when lukaku us off in March then it should be Walsh who sorts out replacing him. Koeman can say which striker he prefers but it is Walsh that does the business. The same Walsh flying out to Italy to do naff all business wise. It should have been Walsh that after 3 ams signed was sorting out other areas of the pitch. It was Walsh that should have been sorting a striker out whilst we were after siggurdson. The list goes on and on, that's his job to deal with these things and to identify players through his scouts, if he fails at that (like he has done) then he should be culpable for the mess we are In.

I don't believe that a manager who goes on holiday rather than try and sort a mess out as he did recently has any significant input into dealings transfer wise. He may say buy me x or y but that is clearly as far as it goes with him.

I just don't get why in any given situation, us blues have to defend any negative viewpoints. The same negative to unsworth being good enough to be manager and how culpable Walsh is. The fact is unsworth isn't good enough to be out manager and Walsh has failed in his job. That's the start and finish, if the dof oversees a complete mess then he has failed in his job, it's his job to prevent that happening
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..clearly we sacked the wrong person then.
 
Walter Ego said:
Why would you employ a scout to negotiate financial contracts? I doubt any DOF who comes from the playing side would be given that responsibility.
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Me neither. But equally I don't expect a DoF to be essentially a chief scout which is what he seems from the outside*. You'd think the DoF would be in direct control of the new manager search.

*obviously I'm guessing
 

MickA said:
Me neither. But equally I don't expect a DoF to be essentially a chief scout which is what he seems from the outside*. You'd think the DoF would be in direct control of the new manager search.

*obviously I'm guessing
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It sounds logical to me that it's his job to find players in positions the manager needs. The manager would probably have the final say on which one to go for. Perhaps if they're cheap and young then Walsh may be allowed to bring them in regardless, like in the case of Josh Bowler for example. Once he's done that the actual signing of the player, contract, wages, price etc would be handled by somebody else.
 
Walter Ego said:
It sounds logical to me that it's his job to find players in positions the manager needs. The manager would probably have the final say on which one to go for. Perhaps if they're cheap and young then Walsh may be allowed to bring them in regardless, like in the case of Josh Bowler for example. Once he's done that the actual signing of the player, contract, wages, price etc would be handled by somebody else.
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I think what it all boils down to is we don't know the roles and responsibilities and there seemed to be confusion with that even with Koeman and Walsh in the summer.
 

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