De Telegraaf are the Dutch newspaper who launched Marcel Brands to Everton, also doing similar with the PSV man to Chelsea, and seem to have a direct line of communication with the director of football.
In their Thursday edition it’s reported Brands still hasn’t decided if he’s going to accept an offer De Telegraaf say is on the table from Everton.
It’s stated: ‘Marcel Brands expects to decide within a week whether he will accept Everton’s offer to become ‘director of football’. The technical manager of PSV says that he still has to make the decision and does not want to wait too long.’
Whilst De Telegraaf believe that ‘in England’ it’s already assumed Brands will arrive on Merseyside, Everton haven’t yet contacted PSV to sort a deal out. But then there would be little point in doing that if Brands isn’t absolutely sure.
Steve Walsh is ‘already fearing a departure’, which goes against other claims from the same newspaper that the former Leicester City man would simply take up a different role.
It’s fair to say Walsh and the Dutch media have some history, with Ronald Koeman feeling let down during the summer window, and that he paid for it rather than Everton’s appointed transfer guru.
Ronald Koeman wrote a regular column for De Telegraaf until recently, giving it up when he became Netherlands manager.
Sam Allardyce is also said to fear for his future, but that claim is based upon the questionnaire, reporting of which has spread around the world.
Farhad Moshiri believes Brands is the ‘ideal’ man to take Everton upwards again, claim the Dutch newspaper.
