Chris Beesley of ECHO Everton believes that some of the main issues facing the team under Farhad Moshiri are highlighted by former director of football Marcel Brands’ comments about Mikel Arteta.
Marcel Brands’ revelation that he tried to bring in Mikel Arteta as Everton manager summed up the damaging chaos at the top of the club that has blighted Farhad Moshiri’s tenure.
Brands was the second of three directors of football appointed by Moshiri, serving from May 2018 until December 2021, quitting just eight months after he penned a new contract that would have ran until this summer. When confronted by an irate fan who asked: “Did you recruit them?,” following a 4-1 home defeat to Liverpool as visiting supporters mocked their hosts by singing the name of their former gaffer Rafael Benitez, whose short but not-so-sweet tenure as Blues boss ended the following month, the Dutchman left with the cryptic parting shot of: “Is it only the players?”
