Marcel Brands confirms Everton's summer transfer goals as Blues prepares for major upheaval

Marcel Brands confirmed that Everton had aligned his summer transfer goals.

The blues football director said the club had decided on positions to strengthen before Christmas – and had now finalized the players he wanted to fill.

Brands reiterated its desire to recruit new recruits aged 20 to 25 and said no player would be prosecuted unless he and Marco Silva agreed.

The Everton team should undergo a new upheaval at the end of the season but players on the outskirts of the Silva team still hope to convince the manager and the brands that they have a long-term future at Goodison.

But at the London Football Innovation Summit this morning, Everton's transfer chief also explained how the club could take advantage of the talent pool of the top six teams in the Premier League to help to strengthen its workforce this summer.

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"After the summer we have created a new screening service, but starting September 1st, we started working for next season," Brands said.

"In the first few months, we focused on all positions, but towards the end of the year – November, December – we decided to position them at 19-20.

"We did nothing in the winter window because it was not really necessary and I do not like to bring players during the winter because there is no preseason, the games continue and again. difficult for players to adapt.

"We have not done anything, but we are better prepared for the summer.

"Now, April 2, the players are already decided. We have done a lot of work on this and see what is possible and what we can do, but positions and names are ready. "

He added, "I would never bring in a player that the coach is not looking for or with whom he does not want to work.

"The opposite will not happen either. If Marco likes a player but I do not think it would fit the philosophy of the club or that it's not the right choice, too old or anything. We must both agree.

"On the 1st of June, we started looking at the positions and the players and started to work, all the players arrived and we agreed on all these players."

Brands, who answered questions from central London for more than half an hour this morning, said that Everton would have a hard time competing for the signing with the Premier League elite, but said that the Blues could consider recruiting the marginal players of this club.

"We are still competing with other Premier League clubs and if we compete with the top six clubs it is difficult," he said.

"But there is a lot of pressure in the top six clubs and a lot of good players in their teams, for example Manchester City, who have trouble playing.

"Ross Barkley was a superstar at Everton, but does not always play at Chelsea, which can sometimes give you an edge. If you give players that particular way, at a given age, then we can focus on that.

"It's also important to have a coach who can train players and Marco is really good at it."

After its first summer at Goodison, Brands reorganized Everton's monitoring department and explained in detail how a potential transfer target is identified and then pursued.

"The first step is the quality of the player and the positions," he said.

"If you think that a player can really adapt, you have to look at all kinds of scans. the physical appearance, the injury history, you try to learn more about his character and his background.

"You are researching this particular player and we have a very good department in Everton with young guys who are very interested in all the information and what they bring to my office. They produce information.

"After that, we make a package on the player to see if he can fit into Everton's environment, into the team we have, in style and we try to do it at a given age.

"The players we recruited last year were all under 25, so we do not want to invest a lot of money in older players. Everton is a club that must also sell players, so it is necessary to invest in young players.

"That's why we invested in young players last summer. Worthy was 24 years old, Mina 23, Richarlison 21, so we turn to players in the 20-25 / 26 age group. "

The brands continued: "First, after identifying an actor of the screening service, we present it to the staff.

"Sometimes the staff of the first team knows the player but it is possible that he does not know it.

"We make a big report on the video player with all his strengths, all his weaknesses and we then decide if we want to go for the player.

"Then I go directly to the club and his agent and I use the manager in this process because it is important that he talk to the manager because he has to work with him every day, so there must be a link between them.

"And then, you try to sell your club, we are an ambitious club with a good environment.

"And that's also why I said we had a special age because you want to create a course.

"If you take an example of Lucas Digne, he began his career in Lille, then Paris Saint Germain, was loaned to Roma and played for Barcelona but at 24, he wanted to play every week and it was difficult in Barcelona.

"So he was happy to come to the Premier League and play for Everton. He is now one of the best left back in England.

"This is an example of how we will approach new players for our club."