The Glorious Revolution

This left Moshiri without a senior person to advise on the footballing side leaving him open to the influence of Kenwright (and arrival of Rooney) and Koeman (arrival of a random array of decent but overpriced players with no idea of how to fit them into a team) – and the dissipation of a fair chunk of Moshiri's net worth.

Now Moshiri is doing things in the right order – reorganise the board, bring in new DoF, sack old management and next bring in the next manager who will clearly report to the DoF – something that was never the case between Walsh and Koeman (and not just because of the timing of appointments, but also because of the calibre of Walsh – he could never be Koeman's boss).

Life is so much better now that the season is over!

After what happened last season, I'm not getting carried away... but things look so much rosier in our blue garden than this time yesterday.

He's known for putting character above statistics and for working hard to create an excellent atmosphere around clubs in which players young and old are able to give their best.

Its probably fair to say that although most of the squad will be given a chance to show what they have in the short term, some will immediately go, others open to offers and most retained for the season ahead. Additions to strengthen and compete in both windows whilst hunting for suitable building blocks for the future.

I think there may well be a few surprises, some players going we don't expect, others currently in the doghouse may be given the chance to resurrect their careers. It will be interesting to to see if Rooney does go or stay now Allardyce has gone. I suspect he may well wait until he has a discussion with the new manager / Brands in the near future.

Much prefer this type of analysis than hyperbole negative swiping against individuals and in particular the likes of Walsh and Duncan.

It was evident that a chief scout promoted to DOF after Koeman appointment, with said managers arrogance and political demands got us in dire straights.

Keoman was responsible as we know for Siggy, Klassen, Rooney, Sandro and even Koeman was most responsible for the No 10 and the CF mess. Some of the others like Gana, Lookman and Henry Onyekuru are typical Walsh future value signings and may create good or brilliant value yet.

Lets give respect where it is due and criticism based upon data points where it is due, not emotional knee jerk hyperbole slagging individuals off.

We should always get behind everyone at the club as the enemies are outside our walls not within it.

New dawning coming - lets hope this one delvers Welcome Mr Brands!!

I sincerely hope that the inevitable trimming of the inflated squad, does not include Ademola Lookman, I think it would be a grave mistake to let this lad go.

There is certainly a lot that need to move on, but having lucrative contracts, and in many cases having paid over the odds anyway in the first place, there will be few offers, and if there are, it will be well below their estimated value.

First and foremost the Manager situation needs to be resolved. I don't know how much Brands knows about Marco Silva, or indeed if he is in favour of his potential appointment.

I would hope that he is involved, even at this early stage in the Management selection. It is important that whoever gets the post, will be singing off the same hymn sheet as Brands.

Exciting times ahead for Everton, after the many years of shattered dreams and expectations that fell well short it is long overdue. Obviously won't happen overnight but softly, softly, fingers crossed.

This affects everything from which kids we have in the academy, how they are taught to play the Everton Way from academy right through to first team. It affects recruitment of a scouting network to get the kids and older players who fit the club, recruiting the coaches to train them, making sure the facilities are right for the training of those players.

The final part is identifying who will manage the first team. This approach indicates the employment of a head coach not an old fashioned manager. It also means that when a head coach leaves we don't then have a wholesale change to the clubs approach to football and get continuity so we are not having a huge turnover of players or 360 degree changes of the football style every time we change the head coach-no lurching from Tikki Takka to Hoofball.

David #1

Agree Walsh is a chief scout and was out of his depth at Everton. Probably shouted down by Koeman and Kenwright over a few signings too, but without the strength of character or kudos to hold sway.

This doesn't bode well for the future . . We will be playing attacking football next season. No good will come of any of it . . Prozac sales will plummet.

The fact that Brands has been courted for some time and is in place for the beginning of the window, and ahead of the new manager, suggests we have some more concrete plans in place.

Buying people like Niasse, Tosun, Williams, Martina and Klassen is not positive thinking and even Walcott who's not as sharp as he once was, was a risk.

Of course a new manager with good strategies may bring improvements but it's hard to make a silk purse from a sows ear.

They do have some promising players like Vlasic, Davies, Baningame, Holgate and Kenny who may also benefit from the right manager but others like the loanees and DCL may be surplus to requirements.

Moving some of these players out and recruiting the right blend of class and experience may be what is needed but it won't happen overnight and most of us don't have the patience anymore to wait season after season for it to happen.

Whatever happens one hopes that Moshiri and Co. will get things in place soon and not wait till after the World cup when players values could skyrocket.

I would agree that Steve Walsh can pick a player. It goes back to Drogba (for Chelsea), and then the aforementioned Leicester boys. What I thought though was that Walsh was softly spoken, he seemed a bit of a push-over, and so he really didn’t seem DoF material. The DoF needed to be a hardline negotiator. Hopefully, Brands is that man. I expect he’s in charge of all transfer negotiations. If not, who is and why? The manager should be removed from this negotiations. He should merely request certain players and then rubber stamp transfers when the fee is agreed, knowing full well what will happen to the budgets (transfer and wages) as a result of the transfer.

Not so sure if any manager would take up a post at Everton with the current board pandering to mob rule. Everton will find themselves in the Championship at the end of next season.

It's okay for the fans of United, Liverpool et al to demonstrate against their club – remember Van Gaal, Moyes, Hodgson and Rodgers all got the boot because the fans were not happy, but Everton's fans it seems have to accept whatever pile of crud they happen to be served with. It's that type of thinking which will guarantee we end up in a lower league rather than trying to reach the highest place possible.

Any new manager will have to be happy with the DOF, so that might rule a few people out, the ones who are not yes men and know what they are doing!

It's not mob rule. Allardyce was simply the wrong man for the "project". It won't put off ambitious managers at all who think they are up for it. Money's available. We are consistently one of the top 20 clubs in the world (by revenue alone), so a massive job. The best want to manage in the Premier Leahgue and we are comfortably No 7 in the Premier League in terms of prestige and spending power.

Your comment is facile and insulting — it's the behaviour of Allardyce that you should be disgusted by. A pariah who is reviled here, at West Ham and Newcastle for his negative football and open contempt for the fans.

Lasted in the England job for 67 days because he couldn't keep his greedy paws off more money.

Have a word with yourself...

Brands views his role as Director of Football thus:

“I have explained to the big boss (Moshiri) how I am used to working,” he told Dutch media. “I like to get involved everywhere. From scouting to youth training to what the kits look like.”

Let's hope he has a positive effect in all those areas.

By the way, Steve (#18), I know I've questioned you on this before but I don't think Drogba is the best example of Walsh being able to "pick a player" – he was well known hot property when Chelsea signed him, hence the enormous fee.

It is customary for the incoming manager/coach to bring his backroom team with him the same way Allardyce had his backroom staff terminated with him except for the fitness guy who is highly rated and of course Duncan is still around.

Re Duncan and at the risk of stirring up a hornet's (no pun intended!) nest, I had no axe to grind over him but would now like to see him shown the door after his gestures to away fans making their feelings known about Allardyce. He chose to side with Allardyce then (rather than simply ignoring the chants), so should have gone with him.