Dean Rastrick appointed new Academy Director at Everton

It will now fall to Restrick to hire Everton's new loans manager and a new head of academy recruiting. Both jobs were previously held by James Vaughan before he left nearly a year ago.

Interestingly, in Restrick's 13 years at Spurs one of the players he helped develop was currently-rumored Everton transfer target Troy Parrott.

Anyway, the great news is that he has all the makings of a terrific team-player and extremely reliable club voice: 'Everton is renowned for its track record of developing young talent ... '

What?

Agree MG. I've been banging the Troy Parrott drum for a while now.

I saw mentioned in an article about him that he was once sent off in a U21 international for getting into a slap-fight... with Moise Kean.

Madueke, commanding a £50m fee, lost his place at Chelsea, and has been mainly injured at Arsenal.
Winks career like Spurs is on the decline and he hasnt achieved anything of note.

Parrott has potential and may be the best of the bunch. The others mainly at teams being relegated from their division.
And thats it for 13 years in the youth set-up? So far. Hmmm I'm not impressed.

And given Everton's academy is pretty crap and has been for eons, then I can't see what this dude is bringing to the party.

Cox "led an extensive recruitment process..."You mean Rastrick was the only one to reply?

Let's see how he goes. I hope he has the ability to polish turds into gems.

Getting him to come to Everton was widely considered a coup. He is universally respected. He's the guy who hired Rastrick, in close consultation with Moyes. That makes him OK with me.

And as for your comment "Rastrick was the only one to reply"... wrong-o, my man.

From The Athletic today:

Informal conversations were held with around 15 candidates, with the list then whittled down to six for interviews. Rastrick spent time with Moyes and Kinnear before being offered the job.

“He (Moyes) is incredibly passionate about the academy, about young talent, about making sure that his team has representation from the local area,” Cox says. “And he’s as determined as he ever has been to make sure that we are competitive and we’re the best.

“My office is right opposite his. He loves this club, (he) has just got an unwavering passion and energy. I don’t know that there’s anyone who works harder than him in the league. He genuinely is the first in and last to go home. His staff as well.

“We’ve built up a nice relationship and there’s been lots of dialogue about what support he needs and what his vision is for his team.

“I’m really excited about Dean’s appointment. He’s an expert in youth development, having worked across the Football League.

“But the best reference point would be the work he did at Spurs over 13 years, where he not only worked with some exceptional players, like Harry Kane, but Spurs developed a reputation for developing staff as well, like (Ipswich Town manager) Kieran McKenna and (England coach) Justin Cochrane.”

Bring in professionals who want to develop and innovate and not just brag to mates in local pubs that they are Everton coaches.

We are 4th in the pecking order in the north west, that's his biggest challenge so he has to think outside of the box and not just copy the likes of Chelsea or City.

All of the lambasted Spurs players above would have generated in excess of £100M of pure profit.

Our academy products are nowhere near this level of bottom line income.

If Rastick can come with a 5-year plan to enhance the output of youth for sell-on value to other Premier League teams around us or lower division clubs, then I am all for this.

I take it Carl Darlington would have left the club for this appointment to have been made?