Everton appoint Brands as new director of football

I hope this is Moshiri stepping back and letting people with the requisite skills run the club, that's leadership to my mind.

Might go and try not to count my chickens.

Has he got any history with those linked?

Excitement is building again for the club. This season had drained it away to record low levels, but it's jumping back up again...

Like to see this confirmed on the official club site.

The club's site editors must be putting in a helluva shift today!

Maybe the club does have a clue after all?

Somebody pinch me!!

Anyway, does this mean Davy Klaassen will be our captain next season?

I know how badly you wanted Cortese.

We're here for ya. Be strong. One day at a time.

It's only real if Contract Dave is in the picture...

Deffo worried me.

I don't think anyone can accuse the man of having no ambition though. It has been said he was happy with the status quo, until the stadium was built. I'm not having that. He is taking control, and we are seeing accountability at last.

Walsh needs to be fired out of a cannon into the Mersey. Complete disaster, on every level.

Brands must pick the manager as he will be working with him.

It's like a scene from The Godfather with all the rivals bumped off in one day!!!

Moshiri must have an all-day taxi fare....

‘Walsh needs to be fired out of a cannon into the Mersey. Complete disaster, on every level'.

He might actually find a target this way. Peak Ineptitude this fella. Proper no-mark.

Hopefully more news to come in the near future.

A time of change at the old club.

His managers have included Louis van Gaal, Phillip Cocu, Dick Advocaat and a fellow named Rutten who now manages in the Israeli league.

I'm also glad I walked out on 87 minutes at the Southampton game despite missing Niasse's goal. Pity a lot more did not do the same.

We have suffered long enough, now it's time to bbbbrreaeeth... again! COYB.

Please... No!!!

Opps! All the breaking news about Everton in the last 20 hours and that is the first thing you can think of to post on TW...?

Well in! Proud of ya Mike!

Yep! I campaigned for Cortese. And..? I'm sure I'll survive his non-appointment somehow.

I've already written of my respect for Denise Barrett-Baxendale and all she has helped EitC to achieve. Clearly, she will not be the complete and all-powerful CEO that Cortese was at Southampton, who had full executive powers.

Different roles have been parcelled up and designated to three key people. Which is just as well, because I stand by my opinion already expressed on here that Barrett-Baxendale does not have the skill set to do all that.< Cortese does have those skills sets.

And your opinion on the moving of the deck chairs, Mike..? Wasn't it your opinion that there were better experienced sports administrators than Cortese who should fill the role of CEO?

Do you place Denise Barrett-Baxendale in that category..?

I would hope that we have been proactive in the manager out & in process and included Brands. That they have covered playing styles and planning, who he could work with, and who he couldn't. Let's hope so.

So no need for stadium news this week, then?

Allardyce is gone/Walsh gone

Brands in

And the reshuffle of the leadership team makes good sense giving discrete individuals accountability for an area they have expertise in, including Denise Barrett-Baxendale!

Cheer up, you lucky bugger — you are in Brazil? And haven't had to endure the deathly atmosphere at Goodison for the past six months

Fuck me — I thought I was curmudgeonly

Actually, I've been posting all along. Just couldn't resist teasing you about your passionate campaign. People with no sense of humour are so much fun to needle. Sorry.

I have no opinion on Denise, don't know enough about her, but I do favor the division of duties and I'm very excited about Brands coming in. Proven winner.

Just sayin...,"Proven winner"... wasn't that what we said about Walsh???

Just sayin...,,,1,16:21:01,,73.169.193.11,ok,175,05/16/2018 16:21:01,michael.kenrick@gmail.com,admin,, 918707,36663,toffeeweb,16/05/2018,Mike Gaynes,mikegaynes@aol.com,"Michael (#30), don't sweat it. Brands and LVG last worked together nine years ago. I'm pretty sure Brands isn't going to hire the Great Easter Island Head for our club.

A new era is coming, though it may take a few seasons to arrive. Brands made slowish starts at PSV and AZ. We must be patient.

Kevin at #20, case in point!! Very very funny, and not a little imaginative! I Hope if things are on the up for us Blues, that the humour here doesn't disappear. Sometimes Scousers are at their very funniest in the darkest of times.

Looking forward to hearing the official announcement about Brands, then will wait with baited breath about a Manager. Though I'm not fully certain about who I would like, Van Gal would not light my fire, so hope the Brands/ Van Gal connection is not THAT strong ????

Anyway, we now also have the great Ray Wilson shining down on us. Look at what he's done for us today. God bless the classiest right back to grace the Goodison & England turf.

He would be an unpopular appointment. Despite the Brands link, I can't see it happening.

Er...dur!

I'm not holding onto anything to 'let go' or 'mourn'. I'm in constant good humour and not a curmudgeon at all. That role is amply filled by others on TW.

If you did but notice, it's the pair of you that are 'going on' about...something.

Denise Barrett-Baxendale and the board reshuffle was yesterday's news.

Try keeping up with the tsunami of good (and sad...) news on Everton that keeps breaking.

Big hugs! Bless ya both!

Marcel / Marco — Kenny Everett style.

That would be worth sacking Fat Sam for on its own.

For myself, I don't want any more Man Utd rejects.

BRILLIANT!

And rigggghhhhtttt at the bottom of the story a casual throwaway line, thanking Steve Walsh 'who has now left the club'.

This day has evidently been long in the making.

Your comment about Walsh is the first thing related to that joker that has ever brought a smile to my face.

That's the spirit! Well, it's the only approach that could work, so still very happy!

Seems like at long last Moshiri is now making all the decisions, and if you are bankrolling a club then all the big decisions must be made by Moshiri. I will be interested to see what budget Brands and the new manager get for the coming season. But at least with his actions over the last couple of days we can start to feel excited about our club again. We know it will take time to turn things around, but as long as everybody is singing from the same hymn sheet this time around. Play the game to win not to avoid defeat and hopefully the fans will back whoever is in charge.

Why should anybody that this muddler, Moshiri, appoints be any better this second time round?

I guess the timing is: get the season over; sack Allardyce; announce the appointment of Brands (the agreement having been drawn up previously); work with Brands on the appointment of the new manager (discussions already in train); decisions on players out and in; repaint the bogs at Goodison.

Great news about the bogs. Have the club confirmed that on the OS?

Moshiri made appointments in good faith at the time. They turned out to be flawed.

He has now executed a mid-course correction to (hopefully) get us headed back on the right path. It may work; it may not. There are no guarantees in life... except death and taxes.

I honesty don't know where you get the notion that Koeman and Walsh were seen as the dream team. Koeman had plenty of doubters on here from the word go. And Walsh, it was pointed out, had never performed that role. Some people jumped to a conclusion that he would unearth a bunch of Mahrez and Vardy types, but many other pointed out that he actually wasn't in that role with Leicester.

With Brands, this has been his role and he's been very successful at it. He had a very good track record. And of course we would celebrate the removal of a failure with the hiring of someone who has been very good. Or should these pages be empty of all comments until it's proven right or wrong at the end of next season?

I wonder whether we will go through a couple more before he is satisfied. There are no guarantees the next one will be any better so probably.

I used to work with a lad that gambled on the horses. When he had a £50 win he would say fucking shite one more winner is all I needed for 5 ton. Grumble moan It always happens to me.

Marcel you up for it laa?

Mmm.

Yes, but only if the lardcake is removed?

Deal.

Since then he (and Ryazantsev) will have seen the same things we all have seen, so I'm not surprised he's making his own decisions at last. He even admitted in an interview that he didn't really think those telephone calls were being recorded and meant for publication. I haven't heard any silly telephone "interviews" after that.

And so on and so on, just so nice to have the fun boy 3 on this site.
I will probably get barred for a couple of days for this post. Its only a bit of fun boys remember fun.

The day we win the Cup you'll be predicting who will drop it.

He cannot let Moshiri or someone else choose the manager .

But more seriously Brands must appoint the manager, or what's the point? His early quotes are he's excited to do things his way.

Let's have a night off and recommence tomorrow.

Give us a good manager, and I'm sure we will get what we all crave. It feels like a life-time since our club won anything, and that is exactly what it is for my two oldest kids.

The common denominator for me at least, is that they have never watched Everton, play under a really good manager. People say that Moyes, had his hands tied, but I was never convinced, and personally think that the way we were run under Kenwright, suited David, right into the ground?

Whoever we get needs time, so hopefully Moshiri's positive decisions can unite all of our club, but I'm convinced that we have got rid of all the toxicity at finch/farm first, before the whole club, can start pulling in the same direction.. please god...

I have been sensing and commenting for some time now that big changes were coming but I expected them to pan out quite steadily during the coming weeks.

I have also been expressing respect and need for patience with Moshiri with the contractual wrangling that must go on behind the scenes. However, Mr. Moshiri has surprised me with the perfect timing and activity behind the scenes that must have been executed to perfection.

Forget Jim White, forget Ronald Koeman, forget Steve Walsh. The dice were rolled with interesting calls but the wrong numbers came up. Even forget Sam Alardyce; he was an insurance policy with a heavy premium. Nothing more. Next time / this time I am sensing, correction, I AM SEEING a real direction and purpose. I would like to See Silva because he seems the right edgy, but inspirational sort of guy with a lot of style. That is exactly what we need . . . . . . . An as Steve Ferns has pointed out many times, he has a good performance record and he will have learned a lot in the last couple of years instead of sailing along from winning position to winning position. I also respect that he has said nothing, absolutely nothing throughout the whole messy business in the media to rock the boat which cannot have been easy.

Keep the faith and C O Y B!!!

I find it all quite exciting for a change.

If you look at the official club site, the rolling news stories have virtually pushed Sam's departure off the front page, whereas Steve Walsh gets a single one-line mention at the end of the Brands' story.

This smacks of old-school Soviet Orwellian-like manipulation of 'the story' and dialogue. Allardyce and Walsh - literally, yesterday's men at Goodison - have today been rapidly air-brushed out of even contemporary history. The focus is very much on the present with optimism for the future.

I'm impressed. And kinda like it!

Guess who?

Do you mean the players they've got? If so, then Brands has contributed to weak Dutch clubs doing well?

They need to appoint a Manager we can get behind and ship out some of the playing squad that eating up the ridiculous wage bill.

The way I see it, Mr Moshiri and his team have had their dress rehearsal with Walsh and Koeman and it failed spectacularly, leading to a real low point in the club's history by having to appoint Sam Allardyce as a stopgap.

Now they've got to do it properly. A clean-out from top-to-bottom was needed and is being delivered. Assuming Silva comes in sharpish, there's a little matter of player recruitment this summer - and it's going to need to be significant lest all the planning leading to this week's announcement will count for nought.

Let the ‘project' commence.

We could have scoured the globe for a dynamic football administrator, instead it seems the hand of Uncle Bill has had it's way.

I'm sure Denise B-B is very capable, but her recent CV which includes Regional Director of the Girl Guide organisation (I'm not kidding) will have Daniel Levy quaking in his boots over any potential player transfers.

If Denise has her way, we will become a charity with a football club tagged onto it.

If Moshiri turns out to have just a teeny-tiny bit of Stalin in him, I'm not complaining either.

Amen,"It looks like they have a plan."

Amen,,,1,18:15:11,,2.124.206.135,ok,19546,05/16/2018 18:15:11,debyrne,reader,, 918806,36658,toffeeweb,16/05/2018,Dermot Byrne,debyrne57@gmail.com,Pukka Pies call in administrators!,Pukka Pies call in administrators!,,,1,18:17:31,,82.132.243.84,ok,19546,05/16/2018 18:17:31,debyrne,reader,, 918807,36663,toffeeweb,16/05/2018,Pat Kelly,Patkelly@outlook.ie,A fresh start is always exciting. It was badly needed. Allardyce did what he was handsomely paid to do but was always going to be paid off end of season. There was no other option if Everton want to play entertaining football which is what the fans want. Walsh too was a busted flush. So onwards and upwards. Brands seems to be a proper professional and hopefully will keep the Club on the right track. An interesting close season to look forward to now the depression has lifted. ,A fresh start is always exciting. It was badly needed. Allardyce did what he was handsomely paid to do but was always going to be paid off end of season. There was no other option if Everton want to play entertaining football which is what the fans want. Walsh too was a busted flush. So onwards and upwards. Brands seems to be a proper professional and hopefully will keep the Club on the right track. An interesting close season to look forward to now the depression has lifted. ,,,1,18:20:02,,109.255.59.71,ok,20957,05/16/2018 18:20:02,patkelly@outlook.ie,reader,, 918808,36658,toffeeweb,16/05/2018,Phil Greenough,filsgreen@yahoo.co.uk,"George McCain. TV star, very articulate. George, thanks for expressing our views, well mine anyway.

By that, I mean, and did mention on another thread, that by sacking Walsh, Moshiri has made a major statement to the effect he has goofed, rather expensively, in the first place by bringing him in.

Although to a degree it is retrospective, as can be said for the Koeman and Allardyce appointments, it is still encouraging to us as fans that, hopefully, the correct moves are eventually being made.

I am still not convinced either that Silva is the right choice, and while we seem to be getting other business in order, it would be prudent just to wait a little longer to make sure it is the correct move for the Club.

COYB!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd still like to see some concrete details about what Brand's role is before I get excited.

The way this has been swiftly executed so far gives me some confidence that this has all been thought through.

It's down to them all to deliver.

I'm thinking along the same lines.

The next manager is a key component in this well-planned and brutally executed purge.

All the soldiers were lined up well in advance of the last 24 hours.

It is illogical to think otherwise that we haven't also been in close negotiation with our preferred managerial target and that an appointment will quickly follow (as is paramount in this WC interrupted summer).

Let's see who becomes manager.. A noteable day, but very sad news about the passing of Ray Wilson.

It puts this all in perspective.

As noted above, very impressed with the way the news is being flowed through the O/S. There appears to be a different hand on the tiller. Less misplaced sentimentality and more focus on the controlling the dialogue.

So far, steps appear to have more confidence and decisiveness, less of a compromise with Bill's old methods.

Here's hoping Brands can hatch a plan to get us in gear and racing ahead to the finish line. 😋

I wouldn't be surprised if Silva has been briefed too a while back so he can do some preliminary research.

Moshiri could be meeting him tomorrow and announcing tomorrow night or Friday?

Everything has been so ruthless and efficiently executed, the incoming manager will be part of it.

I'm certainly not going to defend all Walsh's signings, but several will bear fruit longer term. Has anyone a baseline for a successful conversion rate on transfers..overall in the Prem how many players signed really deliver?

Anyhow, hopefully Brands will be more vocal and provide insight into the strategy, particularly for hirings and development of the U23s and youth teams which have to be nurtured and optimised..

We seem to grab all the pre-season highlights these days, let's hope headlines during next season are more positive!!

I admit I hate the brown-nose he's done as needed, but is he killing EFC?

Is he a BAD character? Why?

Can you imagine if Marco Silva joins us as well? The place will be like a Vidal Sassoon advert.

What's to say they wouldn't have had a downturn at some point in the season anyway? All clubs do .

They finished where most people and bookmakers expected them to (about 12th-16th).. So saying Silva's head was turned hasn't affected anything, they have had their expected season with their limited squad.

Appoint the best sports lawyers in the country to tell them to go away or we will sue them for defamation .

Exciting times!

Since then, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Sammy Lee getting one in the eye as he's being given a massage by Steve Walsh at Finch Farm. Please make it stop.

Today is a good day to smile !

That reminds me why I was always so annoyed with him. Never any consistency.

I've been working, logged on at day's end for shits and giggles, and now we've hired Brands.

One thing you can not say is Moshri isn't decisive! A crap season and he makes changes stat.

I like it.

Roll on this New Everton!

This now feels like the first stages of a plan. Board restructured, a proper DoF appointed, manager to hopefully come shortly. All planned in advance and executed quickly at the right time.

It might not work, but at least they're trying. That's the least I expect!

For me, Garth Crooks has always been Toad of Toad Hall, what with his little waistcoats etc.

I always imagine him indignantly jumping into his little red sports car, driving away from the BBC studio's.

I saw Lukaku say that also. More recently, Tosun said the same thing.

Interesting times - at last!

Maybe Lookman's loan there was part of a big plan after all...

The most important job in all of this reshuffle is the Manager. We have to get it right this time.

Let's get it done. The last thing we need is for this appointment to be dragged out like the Sigurdsson saga.

Show your muscle, Mr Moshiri – let's get somebody with a proven track record to push us into the top 4!

Koeman got the gig because of what he supposedly did at Southampton but everybody knows Pochettino was responsible for that.

Where is he now? Where are Spurs? If Tottenham can do it so can we. We need a Manager to grab the bull by the balls!

Phil – keep stirring the pot; we need your steadying influence – I know you bleed blue. Chaaaaaaaarge!

Yes, Nicola Cortese. He would have been the walnut on top of the whip. I posted on another article on TW to Google Phillipe Coutinho / Southampton. Interestingly it was he who spotted Pochettino.

Up until now, it's been a case of 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss' 'but I get my knees and pray we don't get fooled again!'

I don't think a DOF works unless quickly SUCCESSFUL. After that, it just becomes a tit for tat, I'm better than you, you're not doing your job very well relationship.

Obviously hope to be proved wrong.

Simeone would be great but very unlikely.

Get Emry or Ancelotti in that order ASAP before we lose out to our Premier League rivals.

We can't wait for the 1st June surely.

We won't get fooled again. I like the appointment of Marcel Brands I think it's a definite step forward. Along with all the other board changes, it looks as though the club is moving forward with a good feel of positivity. It actually looked is as though someone knows what they are doing.

The next choice is new manager to compliment the other appointments and the blues should be well on their way. Really excited about the future.

I mean, she runs and has improved a local charity, EitC, but how does that give her the leg up to CEO? What does she know about the thing that matters: football???

I'd be having another look at that appointment if I was you, Mr Moshiri.

He wasn't the right calibre.

Harrison Ford.

About 40 years ago when he was 50.

They would make an exciting front 3, with Tosun and Calvert-Lewin offering options. (I hope the new manager can improve Calvert-Lewin.)