Walsh probably available in the Summer. Takers?

[STUHILL]

PSV Eindhoven's technical director Marcel Brands looks set to join Everton later this month, once the team have been confirmed as Eredivisie champions, say Sky sources.

Brands' arrival could signal Steve Walsh's departure from Goodison - less than two years after he joined from Leicester.

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11316202/psv-technical-director-marcel-brands-to-join-everton

 

I'd have him back, as although he hasn't had a great time at Everton, and there were a few dodgy signings here too (maybe not always down to him), he still has to be respected for some of the absolute gems he found for us. 

 

He knows the club and probably still a lot of the scouting team and network we have. Maybe some would even prefer him as DOF over Rudkin, although he has faltered in the at role at Everton, whether mostly down to him or others, is still a fair question though. 

 

Maybe I am just being nostalgic, but I'd love to see him back here! 

[Beechey]

Wouldn't want him as a Director of Football (given how shocking he's been for Everton), and Macià hasn't done anything to warrant being sacked. Like Rudkin or not, at least we've not spunked £200m in one season on generally average players that mostly only play in one position.

Edited 4 April 2018 by Beechey

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Everything's lining up for a reunion of the NFP, Shakey and Walsh trio at one lucky Championship plodding club. 

[Tuna]

There is no vacancy for him here as Assistant Manager or Director Of Football and he wouldn't want a demotion from his current role to return to chief scout.

[lgfualol]

Everton fans hate him. He wont take a step down to be a head scout again though.

[Babylon]

2 minutes ago, lgfualol said:

Everton fans hate him. He wont take a step down to be a head scout again though.

Everton fans are impatient idiots.

[Babylon]

He'll join up with Walsh and Shakey somewhere, or even a decent club could take a punt on him as a scout finding young players, or rough diamonds. He's far better when forced to work on smaller budgets to find bargains. Not sure I'd put him in charge of spending money on £30 / £40m players.

[Larry_LCFC]

Naa he showed his true colours. 

[Beechey]

5 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Everton fans are impatient idiots.

It's not as if their recruitment has been anything to look at. They spent nearly £100m this season on players that play the central attacking midfielder position, and spent £200m total with only 2 or 3 of their new recruits being starters. Walsh has had an absolutely abysmal season. If Rudkin did that here we wouldn't be arguing to be giving his signings more time. They spent around the same on Sigurdsson and Klaassen alone than we have all season on all of our signings.

Edited 4 April 2018 by Beechey

[Babylon]

1 minute ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Naa he showed his true colours. 

Because building three title winning teams here is no evidence at all.

[sylofox]

1 minute ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Naa he showed his true colours. 

Can't argue with that. But I do wonder if the rumors about him and Ranners where his reason for going.

[Larry_LCFC]

5 minutes ago, Babylon said:

Because building three title winning teams here is no evidence at all.

And dropped us like a steaming pile of shit at the first opportunity. The grass isn't always greener clearly.

[Babylon]

15 minutes ago, Beechey said:

It's not as if their recruitment has been anything to look at. They spent nearly £100m this season on players that play the central attacking midfielder position, and spent £200m total with only 2 or 3 of their new recruits being starters. Walsh has had an absolutely abysmal season. If Rudkin did that here we wouldn't be arguing to be giving his signings more time. They spent around the same on Sigurdsson and Klaassen alone than we have all season on all of our signings.

A quick look, the team that beat stoke had 7 buys under him in it.

 

Do you think the Walsh we know from here would just stock pile attacking CM's with no influence from the manager at all? Here we always mostly had a very balanced team. I look at a percentage of their recruitment and it stinks of outside influence, as tit started to here once Pearson left.

 

The money they spent was never going to break the top 6, not in one season. It was utterly delusional to think it would from their fans (some of them literally thought they were going to win the league). They are two places lower than they were last season, if they had managed to replace Lukaku's goals then they would probably be finishing in the same place. It was always going to be a struggle losing their best player.

 

I'm not saying he shouldn't be questioned, many signings haven't worked as they would have hoped or they've got injured. But as I said pre season, they were spending a good amount of money to basically stay roughly in the same place as it wasn't enough to move them on. Plus you tend to have to judge things over several years.

Edited 4 April 2018 by Babylon

[Vindaloo FOX]

any man that found Mahrez is welcomed back in my eyes. 

 

 

[Babylon]

8 minutes ago, sylofox said:

Can't argue with that. But I do wonder if the rumors about him and Ranners where his reason for going.

I think you can argue with it. He took time to build the teams up here with Pearson, he didn't wave a magic wand. He rebuilt us 3 or 4 times into a successful unit, usually over the space of several seasons. One summer window at Everton shouldn't mean that's forgotten (he arrived too late to impact their first summer window really).

[RumbleFox]

If he were happy to come back in a scouting capacity I would be more than happy to have him back.  X

[norwichfox]

He can stay "near his Family" as far as I'm concerned, Macià seems to be doing a reasonable job. I'd prefer that he stays spending Evertoin's wealth...poor old Kenwright must be sh1tting bricks at the money Walsh has (apparently) wasted.

[Beechey]

8 minutes ago, Babylon said:

A quick look, the team that beat stoke had 7 buys under him in it.

 

Do you think the Walsh we know from here would just stock pile attacking CM's with no influence from the manager at all? Here we always mostly had a very balanced team. I look at a percentage of their recruitment and it stinks of outside influence.

 

The money they spent was never going to break the top 6, not in one season. It was utterly delusional to think it would from their fans (some of them literally thought they were going to win the league). They are two places lower than they were last season, if they had managed to replace Lukaku's goals then they would probably be finishing in the same place. It was always going to be a struggle losing their best player.

 

I'm not saying he shouldn't be questioned, many signings haven't worked as they would have hoped or they've got injured. But as I said pre season, they were spending a good amount of money to basically stay roughly in the same place as it wasn't enough to move them on. Plus you tend to have to judge things over several years.

Of course not, but it is his job to make sure the club gets a good deal for what it is receiving. Frankly it hasn't done so. His younger signings have looked decent however, but his big money, markee signings have been so much worse than anything we have here. I wouldn't want to trust him handling big singings like he's done there, which basically precludes him from any Director position. I believe he's a great scout, but wouldn't want him in a position to do what he's done there. I have to assume Koeman pushed for Klaassen given his Dutch link, and the fact that as soon as Koeman was sacked, Klaassen has featured in a Premier League 18 exactly once, but that doesn't justify Walsh spending £25-£30m on a player he should have known was never worth that.

 

Walsh is more of a moneyball kind of guy I feel, maybe having so much money at Everton was too much of a change in such a short period, who knows. But he's done himself absolutely no favours by spending so much money on so many average players. I guess for all we know he was told to spend big to show the club's ambition, we'll never know, but it doesn't look good, regardless.

Edited 4 April 2018 by Beechey

[Arriba Los Zorros]

Walsh + Shakey + Pearson back here, please!

[sylofox]

8 minutes ago, Babylon said:

I think you can argue with it. He took time to build the teams up here with Pearson, he didn't wave a magic wand. He rebuilt us 3 or 4 times into a successful unit, usually over the space of several seasons. One summer window at Everton shouldn't mean that's forgotten (he arrived too late to impact their first summer window really).

My point was more about him leaving. If he just jumped ship not sure I would want him back. If it was over differences with Ranners that's different. My comment was not about his ability that would never be I doubt imo.

[Babylon]

1 minute ago, sylofox said:

My point was more about him leaving. If he just jumped ship not sure I would want him back. If it was over differences with Ranners that's different. My comment was not about his ability that would never be I doubt imo.

Ok I'm with you, apologies.

[Babylon]

1 minute ago, Beechey said:

Of course not, but it is his job to make sure the club gets a good deal for what it is receiving. Frankly it hasn't done so. His younger signings have looked decent however, but his big money, markee signings have been so much worse than anything we have here. I wouldn't want to trust him handling anything over £20m, which basically precludes him from any Director position. I believe he's a great scout, but wouldn't want him in a position to do what he's done there. I have to assume Koeman pushed for Klaassen given his Dutch link, and the fact that as soon as Koeman was sacked, Klaassen has featured in a Premier League 18 exactly once, but that doesn't justify Walsh spending £25-£30m on a player he should have known was never worth that.

 

Walsh is more of a moneyball kind of guy I feel, maybe having so much money at Everton was too much of a change in such a short period, who knows. But he's done himself absolutely no favours by spending so much money on so many average players.

Absolutely, they are reaping what they sowed by promoting someone to a level they have never been at before. Just to help them poach him from us. 

 

Klassen looked like a Koeman signing, there were one or two others he'd had before that made no sense as well. Rooney looked like a board request to me, bringing home the prodigal son (there had been rumours for years about a return) which made no sense when you already had a plethora of no.10's.

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

30 minutes ago, Larry_LCFC said:

Naa he showed his true colours. 

 

Moving closer to his family and a promotion after years of loyal service and unearthing gems for us.

 

The bloke is worse than ISIS.

[Larry_LCFC]

4 minutes ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

 

Moving closer to his family and a promotion after years of loyal service and unearthing gems for us.

 

The bloke is worse than ISIS.

I wouldn't go quite that far. Maybe Vegans.

[breadandcheese]

I'd love him to be involved with the club in a scouting capacity.  We're going to need a Mahrez replacement fairly soon, so what better than the man who found him in the first place.