 Mae'r dyfodol eich cyfgau o'r Gweithreit Phaith, ond nid o'n neud o'n eu cyflyddio. A hynny sydd y byddau arall diolch i'r Gweithreit Phaith yn cytuniaeth. O gydych chi het yn Cyflydd jae? Yra Bryd. I am four mighty four. But that doesn't necessarily mean I'm on the side of the current director of football. I do like the model a lot. So mine doesn't mean I'm not on the side of the current director of football. You just don't like directors of football. You know why? This is what it is, right? When I think about it, not logically, when I think about it taking Everton out of it, you're looking, you go right, this fella comes in, you plan to all this and you run along on a train, track brilliantly and this is what you do bang, bang, bang, bang, great. And that's great. It looks great. Theoretically, it looks great. But looking at the way it's kind of working at Everton and particularly this, the reason I thought about this today is based on what we've done the Tuesday topic thing about some Allerdychus comments. I think what it does is it gives people a chance to use to kind of blame other things and go, that's what I want to do with me. I don't want my manager doing it. I want my manager to hold his head up and go this. Gen Towson, Gen Towson was the best player, best centre forward. Now I'm hoping he comes good and I think he's a good player and I think he will. I think he will do right. But he was the best striker we could get according to our manager. Within 10 days of him being in, we don't know if he's going to do it. It's a gamble, he mightn't settle and there's been every execution under the sun. Now apparently he's just said again, not sure whether he'll even do it now. Kind of a fucking comment that. And where's that coming from? So we can kind of go to side your far up and share it. Well, I didn't buy him. Steve Walsh sold me that he was the best. He can look at that team and go, why have you got Davey classing? He said he was good. Nothing to do with me. None of these players are mine. Where I think if you're a man, and now listen, it'll always happen because managers come into a club and the new manager comes in and goes, I don't like him, I don't like him, I don't like him. And if you're trying to move forward as a football club, and then you've got someone giving players to you, you might look and go. It's a bit, I suppose, like Antonio Conte, Chelsea, Ross Barclay. Does he really want Ross Barclay? Or do they just go, I'll have him because he's a midfielder. And I just think, I think it's, I think we operate a little bit differently over there. I don't see any issue with the manager making the decisions. A good chief scout, decent CEO, and the manager going, listen, I want him and he's my number one. And as a manager, you should have three players for each position in your head because you're supposed to know football. You get an extensive scout network and they report back, like David Moyes probably, but his wall, and you know different things and all that. And that should really be what you, what it falls on, because then, just for me, I'll finish up now, just for me, the book then stops it here. And that's your team. And you can go, you know what, I bought Jankt Ocean and he hasn't been good enough and that's on me. It's not on anybody else. And you're not giving me plays you I don't want and spending millions of pounds and I'm going, I'm getting my team, I wouldn't have bought you. There you go, that's where I stand. I think I agree with a lot of the things you've just said, but a lot of the things you just said is why I want to director of football. And I think what what I'm going to agree with some things you say. What we actually, what we actually don't have at Everton is clarity on what the roles are at saying people that ever on football club. I think that's a big a hindrance through the role of director of football. At the general meeting, that's when the question should have been asked when it was when he was sitting on that stage when he had basically sort of had to when all those people were there. I think I like the model and I like the model because it creates what it does is it creates consistency at a football club. But as a caveat of that, you only you only want consistency when things are going well. So if you've got a director of football, let's say someone like Monty, right? Who did brainlyts a bill, right? Is that Roman now? Is that Roman now headhunted? He was very good at his job, right? So it's like having a manager. If they're very good at the job, you want them, right? But if they're not good, then you don't want them. So if you've got someone, if you've got, if you've got a defined role, right? So it has to start at the top. If you've got a defined role or you've got defined roles, you've got your, you've got your CEO, your director of football or whatever he's called where you are. Your manager, your scouting network, whatever. It all fits into place so that if you lose your manager, your CEO doesn't leave the club. And I don't think your director of football should leave the club if it's all set up correctly. I just don't think it ever and it's set up correctly. And that might be even problems because it's the, it's the first time we've had one and also because the man we've brought in isn't a director of football, wasn't a director of football. He was an assistant manager at Leicester and a chief scout. They basically just looked at all the things that he'd done and gone, you're the director of football. I don't know if he can do the job or what he does. And I think that's one of the biggest things and I think it should have been defined early on what his responsibilities were. So that, that finger pointing couldn't become a thing where Cuman could duck out of situations. Otherwise he can duck out of situations by going, I don't do that. Now I understand things like contracts and all that. That shouldn't have anything to do with the manager. I do agree a manager should have input, but on by and place only. But Conte uses that excuse, but he's got no right to use that excuse because he knew exactly what he was walking into at Chelsea. All the managers at Chelsea know what they're walking into. They're walking into a place where the manager gets given the place like a lot of teams have done. No, I understand that, I understand that, but that's a defined role, right? And I don't necessarily agree with that. But what I'm saying is, it's like we had this argument last week about the offside rules from VAR on the footy show. And you kept on telling me it should be offside. Now I'm saying, but it is offside. But actually it shouldn't because the hands, a goal can't be being clarified. A goal can't be scored with your hands. So therefore it can't be the needle. No, I know what it is. The point being is, we argue for things that we want, but they're not the things that actually, you can't argue all day about whether you like somebody. No, but what I'm saying to you is your manatee is often seen as the most important. But I understand that, right? So he should have clarity over who he is. But I think they do have clarity. I just think they use the excuse that they don't to bamboozle us and create doubt. Or maybe they don't and that's what I'm saying. Get the defined roles. Make sure it's known. Make sure it's consistent so that I can't. So I don't mean I just mean that. If a manager comes to the director of football and says, I like this fella, I think he's really good, good player, right? I want him. The director of football says, okay, we're going to do exactly what we do when I want a player. So we send X amount of scouts out to go watch him. And whether you like him or whether I like him, we send the scout out. Right? Send them back, come back and they go, bad the scout reports, don't like him. Send 10 different scouts out and they come back with all the same things. Don't like him. Sorry. And that's the same if the director of football wants them or the scout wants them. And this becomes because, and we know for a fact, every scout that was sent to Senias come back with a negative report and Martin has wanted them regardless, right? Now, it hasn't turned out as wholly as bad as it could have been, but for a while it was looking bad. And I just think, well, that's what I'm saying. It leads to a level of consistency. And they go through the same channels, but it's consistent. I don't think it's been consistent. If I'm trying to build a team, you've got an idea of what you want, how can... But that's... If I'm trying to build my team, why should I let you choose my players, you know what I mean? OK, that's fine. So that doesn't have to be the model. What if the model, Liverpool have got... Liverpool have got a director of football, right? But their model is now. It used to be under Brendan Rodgers. Brendan Rodgers wanted a player. He went, took it, went to see the committee. The committee had to say yes or no. Now, he says, I want this player. You're going to get it done for me. And then that player will also bring another hour left back. You're going to tell him he clocked when he got Robinson from Hull. He wouldn't even know where Hull was. But he probably went, someone probably come in him and got a kid there. Fits all those specs. Watch it, watch it, eh? I'll have a bit of that. And the director of football will come in and go. Because even if he's shit, he's played for Liverpool and will get £15 million for him. Because that's like the Chelsea tax. And I think that's... But imagine that conversation happening between the manager and Elston. It's not the same conversation. Doesn't know anything about football clearly. I just don't want a situation where we're giving players, we're giving managers a collection of players. Doesn't this happen to Willis Bowis? He got given some players and he didn't want half of them, the seven. Then he shouldn't have took the job. And where he was in the job was... But he shouldn't have took the job. But he was in the job. You see, now with Potatino, what happens there? Because they don't really buy anyone, do they? Because they've got a great side. He buys them or they're talking about them. And he doesn't care. I think this idea of what a director of football does has lost its way through the Chinese whispers of football. I think... And I always go back and you know what I always go back to. I always go back to buying me an oxana. A brilliant example. Ex-footballer, he was an intelligent man. And we're going to get more of them. Every footballer wants the hassle of being a manager. Don't want the day-to-day hands-on. They've got brains. A lot of footballers got brains. I think these are either. Pardon a bit. Do you know who will be a brilliant director of football in a few years? Theo Wolcott. You can see it now. He's fucking gory. Do you know why more middle-class kids are playing football now? Right? Because their parents are probably happy for them to become footballers. In the past it was like becoming a doctor or because there's so much money involved now. So I think there'll be more. I don't know if day-to-day football is their level. No, it will become one. Vincent Cymru. Vincent Cymru become a director of football. Got the brains. Knows how football works. Knows what it takes. I'm actually surprised that Patrick Vieira didn't become a director of football rather than a manager. I think he's got that. That's a book though, doesn't he? Yeah, well fair enough. But I imagine company will. So I imagine more football as well. And it'll become more. It'll actually maybe it'll change a bit when there's more actual football brain people in there. Look at Ajax. They've got Overmars in there now. And I think it's just that link between the manager and the people who've tried to the pain. That is key. And it keeps that consistency that when a manager gets sacked, it doesn't have to be a matter. I don't think that ever. I think other people are in the way of Steve Walshers. So isn't that surely then there's too many chiefs at Everton and not enough? Maybe, but I don't want my manager having an excuse. To hide behind. But that's what I'm saying. Take away the excuse by bringing clarity to what is going on. And that maybe there isn't any clarity because Everton may be just a fucking mess and having sorted that situation out. Yeah. I'm not saying there isn't a mess. There might be a fucking mess, but sort the mess out for it first. I think too. Have fun. I think you've got to have someone who's done it. You've got to have someone who's experienced at it and who's good at it. I know we've been like with Marcel Brands. You know what that brings, though, don't you? That brings contacts. If you've been a director of football and you've gone into all these clubs. Do you know one of the things now? Just to be a... Notice if you want to be a journalist, right? Well, you're a journalist and you go, you're working for the local paper, right? And you want a job like the BBC or Sky, right? Do you know the first thing they'll ask you? Who you got in your back book? That's the first. Who can you get so long? Who can you cut? Well, I've got an interview with so-and-so. Pep Guardiola's her. I can get him on the phone. I don't have a kid who works for the BBC that David Olenstein. Right? Oh, yeah. Look at Joyce. Like that mate. Winters. They've got the contacts. Straight away. That's the first thing they'll ask you. Who you got in your back book? They've got the contacts. Straight away. That Olenstein fucking breaks news at Arsenal. Before fucking people at Arsenal know about it. He's in the know. And that's what they want. It's all about. It's all about networking now and contacts. So Steve Walsh is like going through fucking the internet, looking for someone's phone number. Brands is like speed dial, Barcelona or whatever. That's what it takes now. I think that's where we've gone wrong. We should have gone... All we wanted, Monty, didn't we? That's who we wanted. We went after Monty. We offered them big money. They wouldn't release him. But when he became available, we should have gone back for him. But surely, to be our first one, the first one should have been someone... Who's done it? Who's established? I mean, to be fair to Monsieur, that's what he wanted. Didn't he? He wanted an established. He wanted the best one in the business, which was allegedly Monty. And he couldn't get him, and then he went for obviously... Steve Walsh was available, and someone probably went to just help Lester with the leaf and he probably looked them and said, what the hell, yeah? But got Jamie Vardy, got Brad Madden. In fairness to Walsh, but I'm not here to praise him anything, but in fairness to him, he's had three different managers, and he's had to... And if he wanted, if the manager wanted certain players or wouldn't take certain players, then that's where it all falls down, isn't it? I just don't believe he's... I don't believe he's the director of football. I believe he's probably a good chief scout, and he might even be a good coach on the football side. I know he's on the same ground at Lester doing stuff with them. He might be good at that. But don't forget, he was at Lester for a while unless there was shite. And then, you know, Vardy was very good and Brad Madden was great and they all clicked together in brand year. He was the one that won them the fucking league, not Steve Walsh. You know, and he picked up Cante, you know, he picked up a handful, three or four really good ones, but they had some really shite ones as well. Can I just point out that everyone he signed after they won the league is now left Lester. There you go. So let's, you know, let's not... That's fine. Right, but that's not... I'm not... Don't get me wrong, I'm not... It's not all about him, because like I said, I think there's pathways and I'll have it in a block, which sort of stuff he does. So, I just wonder then if it's just the bad experience we've had or this very English idea that we have because it's funny how I was talking about this on Saturday in the pub reminding... I can't remember what he's talking about, but it reminded me of when Clive Woodward got the job at Southampton and all the football people had under their mouths, like Redknap, because he didn't understand what his job was to do, because we were watching the rugby actually and we were talking about what he'd done and how Dave Brailsford... I should be calling these people safe, Dave Brailsford had done the same for the cycling, where they're not doing coach, because Woodward was the same. When he was in charge of England, he wasn't a coach. He was like a director of football for the director of rugby. He found the coaches, he set up how... He found the inches, like Brailsford does for the cycling team, he finds the inches. He's not hands-on, Dave, but he finds the inches and I wonder whether that's what... that's what we need and whether that's what this... The coach, coaches or the managers does his job, but the director of football or cycling or rugby is looking for the inches and we just haven't got the clarity yet Dave, what's supposed to be going on, because you said Dave Monty does it, there's someone at Barcelona and they'll do it, there's someone at Ajax or do it by Munich City. I've got the biggest one now. So it works, but now I don't ever hear anyone say, oh, I play the city side because of... You get the feeling, pep cheesers down players, don't you? But you get the feeling that there's a relationship where there's trust and the roles are clarified. And just what I'm saying is yet, our experience, I think I thought when we got it, yet it will have this will set a line and we'll follow the pattern. We seem to be well off the path, right? And I can see why. Shall Danton have it? And it's done then. It's kind of treated them well. Less leads, more players. They've done quite well this season of struggling, but in general, over the last few years, they've followed the line, things have kind of worked for them. But what if... OK, well, let me ask you this question then. What if this summer we go after the best manager available in Europe, let's say. And there's a couple out there. And they turn around and go, I need the director of football. Does that make me walsh? But they say I need the director of football because actually I'm coming into a Premier League club. I've got to hit the ground running. I can't be dealing with that. I need someone in that role. I'm used to someone in that role. I need someone taking that day to day pressure of looking for players. Think about how much time must be taken away from a coach, coaching from almost the admin of doing that job. I know. And that's what I'm saying to you. The bits of it I do agree with. I agree with that. Maybe it's about clear lines then. Maybe it's about removing the uncertainty of who chooses the players. Maybe it's about that. And my manager, you're the director of football. Listen, I need a sense of woe. This is the one-on-ones. And you go and get them. And you go and get all. Like you said, you come back and go, just then. I don't know whether that works. There's three strikers. And I go, well, like Cumin. Well, I only want you rude. Yeah, but I can't get him. But just them three. Well, fuck it then. I'm not having any. Or listen, I need a striker. See, that's it. Well, in that situation then, right? In that situation, should the club have overruled them and said, no, we can't get you this plate. See, because this is funny, because this is the flip side of it, isn't it? This is where the club maybe just needed a good manager. That would help. But maybe look at that though, right? That's a manager saying, I want that player. And you're saying, I can't get you that player. And that manager's like, I'm not asking. But the club and the director are like, we need one. We need a centre forward, right? So we're going to buy one. Whether you like it or not, we're buying it. Because ultimately that decision, right? It's cost Cumin, his job. But that was his own. I think the problem are Everton. Just looking at the Everton one. For me, there's two big problems, right? One, we got a director of football in, who wasn't a director of football. And two, he came in after the manager. Right? So we got Cumin, and then we got Steve Walsh August before the windows. So that relationship might not have been there, wasn't it? As we know, when Cumin spoke to the Dutch press about the transfer, he might have blamed it all on Steve Walsh, didn't he? So there's issues there. So I suppose it will come down to the manager and you're happy to work with the director of football who's going to do this, this and this. Now that manager might go, if there's no issue working with the director of football, but I'm having the final say on players, on who we buy. And the director of football might go great. That manager, the director of football might say, we'll have your choices and I'll bring you options as well. And the manager again. What about this then? Not necessarily, I agree with this. But what if the club say something? No, the only thing you will have the final say on is you start on Saturday. So we will buy you a striker, right? If you don't play him, that's up to you. But this is what we're kind of seeing now with Jeng Towson. So we're seeing, we were told this lad was the best and he may still well be, I'm not writing him off by any set of the imagination, but we were told he was the best striker in Europe, right? In Europe that we could buy. We bought him on the 4th of January, 5th of January, he signed his contract. So and we went out there on December, we went out there on the 23rd or the 22nd of December to sort it and interact on. So we knew we wanted, we've now got our manager telling us this fella doesn't like the cold, gonna take time, might not even wake. So where the fans are going? Can we just bought some of it on the 27th of January? And who do you think is coming out where for me? Another manager? Yeah, but this, but the strikers also, getting different pieces. But ultimately, right? Ultimately and it's the same with, with Cooman, for your, should you do it? They're cutting their own throat. But this is the point that we're all looking at it. From a fans point of, You know what the problem is. But don't look at it from a fans point of view because actually there's no point looking from a fans point of view because we're not getting told, but look at it from the manager's point of view, right? It's just self-harm. It's just self-harm. You're fighting a system, but there's only going to be one winner. That's the way I'm looking at it. If Mishiri wants it, right? And the thing you'll want it at Chelsea and they want it at City and they want it at Paris Saint-Germain and they want it at Barcelona, right? You're fighting a system that you can't beat. So what are you doing? You're ultimately cutting your own throat, right? Cooman is going to have to, he's going to work for, he's going to work for Holland but he isn't going to direct it to football because he's got nothing or he's got to play that just happened to come from Holland, right? So you're cutting your options down because this ain't going away like VAR. This ain't going away. More clubs will have directives of football and there's too much financial responsibility now. There's too much going on. Well, then we need a good one, innit? Well, that's it and that's the way I look at it. We need a clear pathway and when that good one comes in, we need press, no the press or everything. Yeah, we know you watch. Do you have fucking interviews with them? No, they're on Peyton. I won't fuck with you for that one. Do you have an interview with them? Do you've got a black account? 100% though. I know a couple of that. Do an interview with them. 15 minutes. Everything he does. What he does, clarify it. Do you buy the players for the manager and if he goes, no, what do you sit down? Manager will come to us with players and we'll have a few options and we'll go and do the best we can. Do you know what? Once that comes out, we all know and it removes all the deals. It would be like goal line technology. And when they say this, I don't mean in a fucking oh, you're all bedz easier. If they haven't sat down and a proper chat with either Meshiri or Dingel about being director of football, Welsh, it would be made for brilliant headlines in terms of speaking to the fans and the press would love it about what the job is. They'd get a great video out of it. But I just think that one manager is already cut his throat by not just getting on with the job he was giving and not getting on with it. Now I'm not saying Steve Walsh is the man. I'm just saying he could have started the season with a decent centre forward and rejected it and now, and then found himself out of work. Now, Alan Dice might be right about talking, he might be. And I've got no funny enough, I've got no qualms about the work. People are like, I should be playing. That's not how I feel about it. But I think you should you know, you shouldn't be talking about a player like that. Like you've got doubts out of him. You're talking about him in a positive way going. Waking with him every day and he's getting better, he's getting used to the air. Don't forget it. He's finding it out and all this. You speak to him positive. It's going to take a bit of time. Not always questioning. But for me, the more he talks publicly about the system being wrong, the more he's cutting that. Because the manager, the owner will just go this is the system and if you don't like it there's the door mate. If you're resistant to this system. I just think, like I said to you before the reason why I don't like it is because for those reasons. I want the book to start with the manager because the minute you start giving we've just done another video about all the excuses he rolls out and this is just another one for me. I think in this and we mentioned this in the video we've lost sight of so many things in football. So many things and one of the things we've lost sight is coaching. And it's no coincidence that the top managers who can coach who can grab you bring them over here and make you a better player at all of the top clubs. We have managers like Alan Dyson and Rednap and Rednap and Pulus and all these and Moise was a good coach at heaven and that's probably why he got them on United job because he was a good coach but they wheel and deal and they do things by wheel. But they wheel and deal and that's how they manage them but that sight of things is going away from them because number one that's not how football clubs want to do things anyway because of headlines attached to some managers including that own but the best clubs want to get back to good old fashion coaching and want to make players better, improve players and that's why players now as well don't forget will sign for you instead of me because if I've got a choice of two managers right or two clubs you're willing to offer me £400,000 a week I'll give you £400,000 a week you get to live in a nice man city man United let's just say for pregnancy you live in the same city you get everything what's the difference in you and me well the player might go we've both raised this the player go let's say Stale he's gone man city or John Stones I want to go to man city rather than Chelsea because Pep Guardiola is going to make me fucking boss I know he is because I know he's a billion coach and then you might have Alexis Silver he's gone I like Marino because he's going to give me £750,000 he's going to give me £750,000 he might go because he's the kind of manager that will get the best out of me he'll push me and motivate me I don't need any more coaching I'm 29 I don't need coaching I need this and that's what he gives me but younger players who are hungry who've got skill will go Guardiola it will get me on the training pitch and make me better and if you've got those two choices in nowadays the choices clubs