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Speculation building over potential Brands switch
Some of the strongest indications thus far that Marcel Brands will shortly be joining Everton have cropped up in reports on both sides of the English channel over the past couple of days.
Speculation has been rife the past few weeks that PSV Eindhoven's renowned technical director was considering leaving the Dutch champions for a fresh challenge in the Premier League and it would appear as though an announcement confirming that decision is imminent.
Paul Joyce of The Times, usually a reliable reporter when it comes to Everton news, made reference to the fact that Brands's is expected to come on board at Everton over the close season in his report regarding the Wayne Rooney situation earlier today.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Voetbal International in the Netherlands, Brands makes another reference to how difficult it would be to leave his “family” at PSV but that he feels like he is leaving them in the lurch. VI's own suggestion was that, “[h]is statements are in the knowledge that a departure to Everton is forthcoming and done.”
“I am at the most beautiful club in the Netherlands and those who really know me know that I am very attached to people,” Brands said in quotes translated and published by the Sport Witness website. “That I should say to Toon [Gerbrands], my secretary, the people in the scouting, in the training or to Phillip [Cocu]: ‘I am leaving,' I think that's the hardest thing there is.
“I am tough, but at these moments I am very small. I have something special with so many people here. And they all give me a nice [send off], but I always feel like I'm abandoning those people.”
Having made the step up from a general manager role at RKC Waalwijk where he finished his career as a player, Brands took up technical director roles at AZ Alkmaar (where, coincidentally, he had to sack ex-Everton boss Ronald Koeman in 2009) and PSV.
Brands has earned a reputation as a savvy recruiter of players and under his sporting directorship, PSV have won the Dutch title in three of the last four seasons, dethroning perennial title winners over the previous four years Ajax.
It is believed that he would step into the director of football role currently occupied by Steve Walsh, with the latter perhaps moving into a chief scout position.
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2 Posted 09/05/2018 at 22:45:11
3 Posted 09/05/2018 at 22:47:37
COYB's
4 Posted 09/05/2018 at 22:51:36
6 Posted 09/05/2018 at 22:52:23
7 Posted 10/05/2018 at 00:40:56
8 Posted 10/05/2018 at 00:44:57
9 Posted 10/05/2018 at 02:21:05
10 Posted 10/05/2018 at 05:05:37
But Mo the business man wants a longer term (no such thing in football) man to oversee development and bring continuity.
If we are successful great, he should be paid a large % based on success and then another team will come in for him. If not he's criticised, falls out with the manager and change is inevitable.
I think whoever comes in that role will be given 6 months to identify our next manager. Meaning Sam stays for another season. It's about stability and business strategy.
Hopefully I'm talking out of my rear pipe and we get Mancini in the next few weeks.
11 Posted 10/05/2018 at 06:31:00
12 Posted 10/05/2018 at 06:53:11
13 Posted 10/05/2018 at 07:06:05
‘Feelgood' atmosphere in which players can develop and thrive. His work at AZ and PSV is impressive and though it might take time (he had slow starts at both Dutch clubs) I think he would have a great chance of moving us forward.
A combination of Brands as DOF and a coaching- focused manager (like Silva) would seem an excellent and exciting step in the right direction to me.
14 Posted 10/05/2018 at 07:51:45
I totally agree with everything you are saying, I think Moshiri knows this is a big summer and I don;t think Sam will be part of it either. I have read nothing but great things so far about Marcel Brands.
By the way my surname used to be Hoare, not related are we?
15 Posted 10/05/2018 at 09:12:04
"What a technical director" .
16 Posted 10/05/2018 at 09:36:36
17 Posted 10/05/2018 at 09:41:15
18 Posted 10/05/2018 at 10:00:24
19 Posted 10/05/2018 at 10:05:38
Could be a chance for clarity on what other senior staff do too.
20 Posted 10/05/2018 at 10:17:03
21 Posted 10/05/2018 at 12:25:16
The Chelsea model seems to deliver to the manager players he doesn't want(Barkley??). The manager in turn is continually at odds with the DoF. I could go on.
So does he/they pinpoint the players, oversee the infrastructure, or the philosophy I am genuinely confused
22 Posted 10/05/2018 at 13:24:16
In the days of yore if you weren't fixed up near the end of the night, it was any old Hoare will do.
By the way lads, how old are you, and neither of your mothers used to go to dances at Moota near Cockermouth did they?? 😎😎
23 Posted 10/05/2018 at 14:45:11
Hilarious post, nearly choked on my Mars Bar at work!
Believe me I have I have been through the late nights and as you say any old Hoare will do, interesting conversation once I told them what my surname was.
I will ask my 63 year old mum tonight and maybe my Auntie if she has been near Cockermouth. :)
24 Posted 10/05/2018 at 14:59:41
She was driving and got lost.
Never found the place.
More's the pity.
Brands is an outstanding acquisition and if we bring him on we need to simply let Walsh go. Save the money.
25 Posted 10/05/2018 at 18:43:10
Lucky escape there pal.
26 Posted 10/05/2018 at 19:06:37
27 Posted 10/05/2018 at 20:19:05
28 Posted 10/05/2018 at 20:34:27
29 Posted 10/05/2018 at 21:10:22
30 Posted 10/05/2018 at 21:38:20
31 Posted 10/05/2018 at 22:00:47
32 Posted 10/05/2018 at 22:34:33
33 Posted 10/05/2018 at 22:59:35
Fantastic football, but very "Martinesque" in that defending was definitely not a priority.
Find me a Holloway who actually recognizes defending is important.
Actually, that's Klopp.
Life as a Blue right now simply is shit.
34 Posted 11/05/2018 at 18:16:04
Pardew's available...no hang on: just checked and his consistent runs are all defeats!
35 Posted 12/05/2018 at 14:10:10
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1 Posted 09/05/2018 at 22:41:18