Steve Walsh - with the benefit of hindsight

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I’ve said it earlier in this thread, but I’ll say to again.

We gave an inexperienced fella a job and he messed it up, where he wasn’t comfortable.

I don’t think it’s harsh to look back at Walsh’s regime as a disaster, because we’re still feeling the pinch of Sandro, Bolasie and their stupid high wages, and in the latter, stupid high price paid.

But when you look back on his Leicester regime and focus on why he did well, he brought in youth, and he did a good job of it.

Look at Kante, Mahrez, Drinkwater, were all young gambles which paid off huge. Same goes for Vardy. He had lesser successes like Kramaric, who has gone on to be a top striker in Germany.

Tbf fella is good at what he’s good at which is youth recruitment.

Whether you call any of these success stories, but Onyekuru, Lookman, Vlasic are all bringing us profit. Bowler, Gibson look very promising.

Utter train wreck. But it wasn’t ALL bad, I’d say more Koeman than him.
 

I think it's unfair to judge without knowing the wider picture, the transfer business is a murky old game and in my opinion Everton have always sailed close to the wind. I'm old enough to remember the baffling transfer of David Johnson to Ipswich, only to see him surface at Liverpool, then McMahon to Villa, we have history. Walsh did a good job at Leicester and while I am utterly loyal to Everton, we have turned more silk purses into pigs than I'd care to remember.
 
Steve Walsh, aided considerably by Ronald Koeman and Sam Allardyce wasted VAST sums of money on utter tosh.

They also bought some very good players.

Happy now?

Meanwhile, Marcel Brands, aided slightly by Marco Silva has only bought BALLERS.

8 more glorious days.
There's no need to shout at me. :coffee:
 
I think it's unfair to judge without knowing the wider picture, the transfer business is a murky old game and in my opinion Everton have always sailed close to the wind. I'm old enough to remember the baffling transfer of David Johnson to Ipswich, only to see him surface at Liverpool, then McMahon to Villa, we have history. Walsh did a good job at Leicester and while I am utterly loyal to Everton, we have turned more silk purses into pigs than I'd care to remember.
David Johnson went Ipswich, Alan Whittle went to Crystal Palace and maybe another player was off loaded after a game at Notts Forest, they were, aledgally, involved with young girls. Steve McMahon left Everton when he realised David Johnson, ( after he came back from Liverpool) and Adrian Heath were on £900 per week each and he was on £300, he asked Howard Kendall for a rise, Kendall came back with a paltry £50 rise, Stevie asked to go, Aston Villa came in, Liverpool offered more, Stevie thought it was unwise to move to Liverpool at that time, but didn’t stay long at Villa efore he moved to Liverpool, there was no love lost between Howard and McMahon, especiallyfrom Stevie’s way of looking at it.
 
With purchase and wages, Steve Walsh has so far cost us:
£40m Yannick Bolasie
£32m Davy Klassen
£11m Sandro Ramirez
£32m Cenk Tosun
£27.5m Theo Walcott
£37.5 Morgan Schneiderlin

Regardless if Koeman and Fat Sam wanted these players or not, this tit was responsible for negotiating price and salary

Literally spunked the best part of £150m up the wall, but he was boss coz we made a profit off one player.
 

With purchase and wages, Steve Walsh has so far cost us:
£40m Yannick Bolasie
£32m Davy Klassen
£11m Sandro Ramirez
£32m Cenk Tosun
£27.5m Theo Walcott
£37.5 Morgan Schneiderlin

Regardless if Koeman and Fat Sam wanted these players or not, this tit was responsible for negotiating price and salary

Literally spunked the best part of £150m up the wall, but he was boss coz we made a profit off one player.

Those wages are way off friend, you have used 1 where in most cases you should add multiple years.
 
I have to be honest, I’m starting to think that (while I massively prefer, nay worship, Brands) perhaps the dud signings were more Koeman.

Walsh got us Pickford (England’s goalie), Gana, Onyekuru (admittedly he should’ve looked into his permit first but he’s a good player), Siggurdsson, Keane, Vlasic and Sandro (a dud no question).

Koeman got us Bolasie, Rooney (w/ BK), Klaassen, Martina, Schneiderlin.

Personally I think Walsh’s reputation has been damaged by Koeman although I much prefer Brands. Koeman’s signings are mixed at best.

I don't think Onyekuru was a case of not looking into or studying his work permit issue. It was a calculated gamble that may well have paid off but for a bad injury and the recriminations around it during his spell at Anderlecht.
 

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