Confirmed Transfer Steve Walsh to Everton

Log in to stop seeing adverts

Status
Not open for further replies.

Jeff

Administrator
Staff member
http://www.evertonfc.com/news/2016/07/21/walsh-appointed-as-director-of-football
Everton Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Steve Walsh as Director of Football.

Formerly joint Assistant Manager and Head of Recruitment at Premier League champions Leicester City, he will take up his new role with immediate effect.

His strong reputation has been forged over many years, working as a part-time scout for Bury, Chester and for 16 years for Chelsea in the north of England while holding down a day job as Head of Physical Education at successive comprehensive schools in Chorley, his home town.

He was elevated to a full-time role at Stamford Bridge as European Scout before being persuaded to join Newcastle and subsequently becoming a key member of Nigel Pearson’s staff at Leicester City and Hull City prior to returning to Leicester in 2011. Following Pearson’s departure, he remained as Claudio Ranieri’s joint Assistant Manager and Head of Recruitment in the Foxes’ first title-winning season in their 132-year history.

During his career, he has been credited with scouting and recommending the signings of such players as Gianfranco Zola, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, Jamie Vardy, Riyad Mahrez and N’Golo Kante.

Chairman Bill Kenwright said: “It’s great news to welcome Steve to our new era at Everton Football Club. His track record, particularly at Leicester City, is already the stuff of football folklore, and both myself and Farhad, having spent time with Steve, are convinced he is exactly the right fit for our Club and our new manager, Ronald Koeman.”

Steve Walsh said: “I’m proud and privileged to become Director of Football at such a fantastic and historic club. With a new manager and a new major shareholder, it feels very much like a new era here at Everton and that potential is what is most exciting. I know the Club well, my roots are in the north west and my brother, Mickey, was an Everton player in the Bob Latchford era and always proud of that fact. I also did my initial teacher training at Liverpool Hope University many years ago. I’m genuinely excited to be here at the Club and very much looking forward to getting down to work.”

Manager Ronald Koeman said: “It’s really good for the Club to have someone in Steve who has shown his quality in his job at a number of clubs over many years. That’s the experience and quality he will bring to us at a good time in the season. He has a great deal of knowledge about building for the long-term and the magnificent work he did at Leicester on top of the job he did at Chelsea makes us excited to have him here at Everton.”
 
Oh well. The club will move on and continue to have success without him. He did great work for us but nobody is irreplaceable.
 
Typical scousers - useless themselves so they have to steal something good from someone else.
 
Thanks for everything Steve.
 
Thanks


Bye
 
He's done a brilliant job for us.

I'd never heard of him before he started working for us.
 
'Tis as it 'tis.

How can we have any hard feelings towards Walsh he was instrumental in delivering the most remarkable season this club has ever had (so far), he's left us in a position to attract better quality than we could of hoped for if we'd only finished mid table, and he hasn't dragged us into the murky realms of administration in the process. None of which was achieved overnight, or in just one season, so won't bother putting a few bob on the Toffees to win the league just yet!

Good luck to him and at least he didn't go to Arse... that really would've ended his career!

As ppf said never heard of him before he joined us... worth remembering that when the next guy we've never heard of before takes his place.

Onwards and winwards.
 
Leicester City Football Club can today confirm that Steve Walsh will be leaving his position as assistant manager.

Steve has given notice of his intention to join Everton as their new Director of Football. He will take up his new position with immediate effect.

Leicester City Director of Football Jon Rudkin said: "Steve has made a signification contribution to the most successful period in the Club's history and it is with a heavy heart that we accept his decision to seek a different challenge in his career.

"We thank him wholeheartedly for his service and wish him and his family well in the future."

Steve has been a senior figure in the Club's football management since rejoining Leicester City in 2011 under Nigel Pearson, sharing the position of assistant manager with Craig Shakespeare.

Specialising in player identification and recruitment, Steve helped build the squads that would return City to the Premier League, retain our status in the top flight and, following the appointment of Claudio Ranieri, establish us as champions for the first time in the Club's history.

The Club's senior football management, including manager Claudio Ranieri and assistant managers Craig Shakespeare and Paolo Benetti, will continue to prepare the squad for the new season, while the delivery of the Club's established player recruitment strategy will continue to be overseen by Director of Football Jon Rudkin.
 
As ppf said never heard of him before he joined us... worth remembering that when the next guy we've never heard of before takes his place.

Onwards and winwards.
I'm glad you picked up on that, it's exactly the point I was trying to make.
 
The Club's senior football management, including manager Claudio Ranieri and assistant managers Craig Shakespeare and Paolo Benetti, will continue to prepare the squad for the new season, while the delivery of the Club's established player recruitment strategy will continue to be overseen by Director of Football Jon Rudkin. .

... so the scouts are still in place, the software and analysts are still in place, and Rudkin is now advising Ranieri and Whelan? So was Walsh's job the final summary of the analysis, or was there more alchemy involved?
 
Steve Walsh said: “my brother, Mickey, was an Everton player"

I remember him from when he played at Blackpool. Got 'goal of the season' on MotD. Never connected Steve Walsh with him.
 
... so the scouts are still in place, the software and analysts are still in place, and Rudkin is now advising Ranieri and Whelan? So was Walsh's job the final summary of the analysis, or was there more alchemy involved?

Anyone can pick players from stats. Anyone can tell a very good player when they see them.

Walsh took the stats, but then had a remarkable record for knowing the right player for the right team at the right time.

He's outstanding at doing the thing that money can't buy. The idea that Rudkin can replace this is laughable.
 
But does anyone really know what he actually did?
 
Is everyone going to go mental now because he didn't thank Leicester in his first interview for his new club.
 
It would appear that part of the deal was an agreement that Everton will not try to sign Leicester players for a specified period (I don't know what that period is), so they will be unable to continue their attempts to sign Schmeichel.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Log in to stop seeing adverts

Championship

P Pld Pts
1Leeds Utd3882
2Leicester3782
3Ipswich3881
4Southampton3673
5West Brom3866
6Norwich City3861
7Hull City3758
8Coventry City3757
9Preston 3756
10Middlesbro3854
11Cardiff City3853
12Sunderland3848
13Watford3848
14Bristol City3847
15Swansea City3846
16Millwall3843
17Blackburn 3842
18Plymouth 3841
19Stoke City3841
20QPR3840
21Birmingham3839
22Huddersfield3839
23Sheffield W3838
24Rotherham Utd3820

Latest posts

Top