Everton football manager Marcel Brands leaves the club amidst fan unrest Everton

The last of these was last Wednesday Home loss to Liverpool 4-1, after which the supporter angrily encountered Brands as he left the box of directors. In footage taken from their exchange, Brands, when asked if he was responsible for recruiting the team on display, replies, “Is it just players?”

This comment is believed to refer to a long-running malfunction in Everton’s hierarchy and, in particular, the interference of majority shareholder Farhad Moshir with a British-Iranian billionaire who has more than once appointed leaders and been sanctioned in breach of the agreement. his football manager, and despite the fact that he also appointed him to the board of Everton in January 2019. It looks like Brands has had enough and is starting to agree on a reward for the remaining three-year contract he signed in just eight months. then.

The 59-year-old will hardly be missed by many supporters, and his departure will only sharpen attention to Moshir, under which Everton has hired five permanent managers over five years, the most recent being Rafael Benítez. The Spanish was a controversial entry into the club Given his connection to Liverpool and his former team after a heavy defeat in the middle of the week, it was believed he could be fired after more than five months of leadership. Instead, however, Moshiri stood beside Benítez in a text exchange with TalkSport presenter Jim White the day after the Merseyside Derby, claiming he needed time and funds in January.

Not surprisingly, it has done little to quell the unrest of the Evertons. Many of those who stayed in Goodison Park after Wednesday’s last whistle were heard shouting “sack the board” and everyone who attended Monday night’s visit to Arsenal has been encouraged to take part in a demonstration organized by various fan groups titled # 27minutesfor27years. , referring to the years in which Everton have been without a trophy at the end of this season, and the plan is for the fans to walk away in the 27th minute as a sign of their dissatisfaction with “team management and administration”. club ”under Moshir.