Football

Madness

By which you mean the band, not the tendency for half the cunts in your north London school turning into Liverpool fans.

Emery and de Boer would be excellent choices, as would Koeman.

As for successful directors of football, how often do you see them move and replicate the success for which they have become known for?

At most clubs these men, they are pretty much all men, seem to have a long history in a number of roles at these clubs.

Someone like Giggs should be groomed to become a DoF at Man Utd.

Nah, start including the Charity Shield and next thing you'll be counting up Texaco Cup and Sherpa Van Trophy wins

Edit: seems I'm late on calling out Pisti bullshit. Ah well, I'll leave it here anyway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_football_clubs_in_England_by_competitive_honours_won

Why would Koeman leave Southampton for Everton?!

I would go for Emery over De Boer. He's managed Sevilla and Valencia and did a good job in both roles. De Boer has only managed Ajax and whilst I believe he could do the job, it would be more of a risk.

I'd bring Phil Neville back to the club as a DoF - he's well connected, speaks Spanish and though people castigate him I believe he's got a pretty solid knowledge of football.

I have re jigged it to not include charity shield.

Club Total Last trophy
Liverpool 45 2012 LC
Manchester United 43 2016 FAC
Arsenal 29 2015 FAC[a]
Chelsea 24 2015 League
Aston Villa 22 1996 LC
Tottenham Hotspur 17 2008 LC
Everton 15 1995 FAC[a]
Manchester City 14 2016 LC
Newcastle United 12 2006 ITC
Nottingham Forest 12 1990 LC
Blackburn Rovers 11 2002 LC

Everton are smaller than Aston Villa.

I don't know why we don't have an informal system like they have in the states where those interested in a career in sports, management/coaching/etc, aren't brought in young and then start off in scouting or now statistics, cutting film analysis and then move up through the ranks of the organisation.
You'd be surprised how many GM's in american sports teams have been promoted from within and have travelled through the team's departments learning as they go. Doesn't seem to be an equivalent in England, though I'm assuming there must be one in Europe as DoF's are so prevalent over there.

Might be the danger of relegation, and the tyranny of the all governing manager whose years of experience supersede a move to a more collaborative process. Plus usually it's the manager who'll go before the DoF/GM, so obviously would want to make sure that if they are sacked, they're sacked doing what they want to do..

It's the fourth biggest club in the country 😂

Jokes aside, any of those three would be a massive upgrade for Everton.

Agree on Neville, not sure how his connections are and what the scouting network is like outside the UK.

Everton are smaller than Aston Villa.

Trufax. Everyone knows that.

FFS Portsmouth won something with candleface.
IN THE TIME SINCE EVERTON LAST WON ANYTHING.

Zlatan to United. Poor Rashford will never get another kick under Mourinho.

Man City, 2 trophies to be more successful than Everton

Most of the wankers in my school supported Arsenal or Tottenham. I liked to think I was a bit cooler than that

And Carrick to sign a new contract.

The UK have won Eurovision since Everton last won anything. That's even more impressive

They're both the second teams in small provincial towns though.

Will Mike visit Anfield before Everton win something again?

I would rather Danny Cadamarteri came back than Phil Neville

I liked to think I was a bit cooler than that

You weren't.

At least Arsenal won something.

Looks like we have signed a quality young keeper to put the pressure on Mig. Let's hope there are more to come

Just looked that up and saw this

Mignolet, 28, signed a new five-year contract at Anfield in January.

lol

Keepers only get good in their 30's anyway

He did have a pretty good season actually. he proved himself on several occasions and has become less erratic