03 Sep 2021 23:50:34
IF, our club is in the financial situation that some pundits claim, than it seems to stand to reason that this has not happened over night. I'm not seeking to place the total responsibly just at one person's door, but Mr Bland must have been aware that this was the direction of travel, whilst no one could have foreseen the loss of match day income from C.V., others have suffered the same losses but are seemingly not in our situation.
Knowing what they rules about profit and Sustainability are, Mr Brands dealings in the transfer market should have reflected this, plus the grossly inflated contracts that he offered.
Mess up in any job you get fired, we awarded him a new three year contract . Seems, from the outside, as crazy.

1.) 04 Sep 2021
04 Sep 2021 02:42:26
The problem is JCW is that I don't believe anyone at Everton knows who is charge and who is responsible for the mess. Of course Brands must share some of the responsibility but I don't believe that most of the big signings were his decision or the wages offered were what he would pay. Mina 135 k per week, Allan 115 per week. Gomes 140k per week, James 200k per week, Delph 100k per week or Keane 100k per week. My own view is that these were Moshiri's, his managers or his advisors. Brands probably disagreed but was outvoted. Should he leave because he wasn't being listened too? - possibly as his reputation is tarnished because of it but he has a family to support and maybe he thinks he shouldn't pay for the mistakes of others
Look at Josh King as an example of our stupidity. We panic signed in last day of the window on what wages and then allowed CA to ignore him when it cam to pick the side. Where's the unity of thought/ purpose - how much did we waste

We need one - ONE leader who makes all the decisions and lives or dies by them - not a gang of 5,6,7 - each making signings with no thought for the future of the club.

2.) 04 Sep 2021
04 Sep 2021 11:43:18
This right here is the problem. I'll be honest I have no idea how transparent other clubs are, as I don't follow them - but our club is as blurry as it gets.
As fans we are completely clueless as to who is making the decisions. Brands gets generally absolved of all blame as no one thinks he has any influence, which is staggering when you think about it.
Back when Moyes/ Martinez were in charge you knew exactly who was making the decisions. Now I have no idea, and all we do is make mostly ill informed guesses. We even throw about Salary details that we have absolutely no knowledge of like they were facts!

{Ed002's Note - The Director of Football is not responsible for the financial mess Everton are in.}

3.) 04 Sep 2021
04 Sep 2021 12:11:03
Not sure how people want to blame Brands for our financial woes, especially when he has seemingly been addressing the enormous wage bill. Have we not seen players being shipped out? Have we been spending silly money on transfers this last window? No, so doesn't that suggest that he's actually doing his job?
I've said it before in this forum, why do we want to find someone to shoot down? One day it's Brands, the next James but at least Tom hasn't been getting any grief of late eh 🙄 why can't we all just be happy for one day and stop sniping for the sake of sniping?

4.) 04 Sep 2021
04 Sep 2021 12:26:58
It is hard to know exactly who was behind which decision but from what I can see it looks lke Brands is actually doing his job really well but ultimately all signings need the approval of the manager and the owner. The more panic-buy type decisions on huge wages don't look like his work while the more sensible ones do and most of the silly money signings were before he was involved. Benitez has clearly had input for the most recent ones which look great but I think Brands would have been supportive and probably relieved at the way Benitez is going about things.

5.) 04 Sep 2021
04 Sep 2021 14:41:01
I thinks Ed02's comment highlights it all "The Director of Football is not responsible for the financial mess Everton are in"

If it's not the Director of Football that's responsible then who was it? My money is on Moshiri and his advisors and trying to support managers who had the same ethos as some of our fans ' It's not our money so why should we care how much is wasted'

Which brings us back to where we are today cash strapped because of FFP regulations caused by our mismanagement.