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Steve Walsh can’t wait to get started as Everton’s Director of Football after declaring that recruitment is his first priority.
Walsh was appointed on Thursday, joining from Leicester City where his record in the transfer market had gained unequivocal praise.
He will now set about providing Blues boss Ronald Koeman with the players he requires to boost the Everton squad.
Walsh told evertontv: “It is a massive, massive football Club. I think it has an excellent infrastructure and looking at the building work that is going on at the moment and the work on the pitches, it looks like a brand new era. Hopefully we will be able to make the team so that we can achieve.
“My title is Director of Football, my expertise is that of recruitment and that is the first point of call as far as that’s concerned.”
Having also worked with Chelsea and Newcastle, Walsh was Assistant Manager and Head of Recruitment at the King Power Stadium.
Credited with bringing Leicester’s key title-winning performers - the likes of Riyad Mahrez, N’Golo Kante and Jamie Vardy - to the East Midlands, Walsh admits it had to be a special sort of opportunity to prise him away.
And that is what he believes Everton represent; with Koeman spearheading an exciting new Blues era.
“Ronald was a legend as a player and has a very good reputation as being one of the leading coaches in Europe,” Walsh continued. “He has worked at a multitude of excellent clubs and he has obviously seen the project and the challenge of Everton Football Club and decided he wants to put his name to it. It was a really big pull for me to come, no doubt about it.
“It had to be a massive opportunity and I think that is the case here. It is primed and ready to go and hopefully we will be able to achieve the success we had at Leicester.
“The expectation (of replicating the success at Leicester) doesn’t weigh on my shoulders, not really. It took a long time to put the team together at Leicester, it wasn’t done overnight.
“I was at Leicester on and off for eight years so it was putting those foundations down and making sure you are bringing the right age and the right attitude of player to buy into what the manager wants to do.
“Mr Koeman certainly knows what he wants and I am going to try and fulfil that with the players that he desires in the positions he wants.”
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發表於 2016-7-23 11:19:45
