Kevin Thelwell

[Flaneur]

Been made DoF for Everton

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497262623125127176

 

[Ginger Chimp]

<reaches for the popcorn>

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

SUPER SPORT GOSSIP!! Wayne Hennessey could now sign for Everton along with Tom Laurence. Everton are also looking at Cambridge legend Wes Hoolahan

 

[JadeWolf]

Good move for him.

 

[Minimalist]

I don’t understand why he didn’t get more respect from wolves fans, seemed to do a good job as far as I could see. Perhaps it was a time when we seemed to need a pantomime villain, he took over that role when moxey left!?

He will be good for Everton, the money they have wasted is staggering.

 

[Rednal Wolf]

Been made DoF for Everton

https://twitter.com/x/status/1497262623125127176

Preparing for the Championship......... Makes sense

 

[WolfLing]

"As Sporting Director at Wolverhampton Wanderers and previously Head of Football Development and Recruitment, Thelwell orchestrated Wolves’ rise from League One in 2013/14 to qualification for the Europa League in 2019/20, identifying and recruiting players like Diogo Jota, Ruben Neves, Adama Traore, Leander Dendoncker and Conor Coady."

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

People may scoff at his appointment, but I'm fairly confident that he won't make their recruitment process (on or off the pitch) worse, I'm not sure anyone could!

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

Did well here. Good for him.

 

[JadeWolf]

I don’t think people realised what a good job he did for us at the time. All you used to get from people was “Mendes signs all the players don’t he”. Personally I’m not sure Sellars is an upgrade on Thelwell to be honest.

 

[WKFWolf]

I don’t understand why he didn’t get more respect from wolves fans, seemed to do a good job as far as I could see. Perhaps it was a time when we seemed to need a pantomime villain, he took over that role when moxey left!?

He will be good for Everton, the money they have wasted is staggering.

That time is always. People always have to have a scapegoat somewhere. Love caching all of their soundbites to use against them when we are struggling. The Thelwell dossiers et al

A lot of the board would be better off if they never gave their names out rather than fronting up like they do all the time (that's not me saying they don't make mistakes either, but who doesn't)

 

[NottsWolves]

Surprised as he’s not been in his previous role for long.

 

[Mile End Wanderer]

He found Kilman but just shows Everton won’t be spending stupid money anymore

 

[sedgwolf1980]

Quite indifferent towards him to be fair. From what I can see, I get the impression he’s great at self promotion and interviews really well. Whilst I don’t think he did a bad job here, he didn’t appear to add too much.

Always seems a decent enough bloke though so good luck there. Although in saying that, Barry Fry would look good in that role given what has gone before him.

 

[SuperGran]

Hope he doesn’t score any goals or assists people will keep bringing this thread up

 

[WeAreTheWolvesII]

I thought he only left us for a great 'new chapter' and couldn't turn down the chance to work in the USA and to move his family there.

Then he's back within two years, with most of it having been played out in Covid times. Hmmm....

 

[Erick1011]

It'll be typical of Wolves fans that as soon as they make some good signings they'll scream "why didn't he do that here?!" such as with Steve Webber

 

[Scallywolf]

Cue the transfer rumours about our players going to Everton!

 

[jrpb-3]

Nuno to Everton at some point ?

 

[cannockwolves]

People can say what they want about him, but in the football industry he has an excellent CV and is highly respected.

More to the point Sellars is most defiantly not an upgrade on Thelwell. The only difference is Sellars is happy to take the money and let Mendes make the real decisions.

Good luck to Kevin, he did an excellent job and was criminally undervalued.

Given enough time and the right support he will make Everton better.

 

[AndyWolves]

I don’t think people realised what a good job he did for us at the time. All you used to get from people was “Mendes signs all the players don’t he”. Personally I’m not sure Sellars is an upgrade on Thelwell to be honest.

Mendes signed the good ones and thelwell signed the bad ones

 

[steve vena]

For every max kilman there's a Patrick Cutrone lol

 

[Ned]

I don’t think people realised what a good job he did for us at the time. All you used to get from people was “Mendes signs all the players don’t he”. Personally I’m not sure Sellars is an upgrade on Thelwell to be honest.

If Sellars replaced Wolfie as DoF I’m not entirely sure he would be an upgrade.

 

[Bill S Preston Esq.]

"As Sporting Director at Wolverhampton Wanderers and previously Head of Football Development and Recruitment, Thelwell orchestrated Wolves’ rise from League One in 2013/14 to qualification for the Europa League in 2019/20, identifying and recruiting players like Diogo Jota, Ruben Neves, Adama Traore, Leander Dendoncker and Conor Coady."

We'll give him Conor Coady who was recruited as a rather disappointing central midfielder.

Add in Sako, Boukari, Mason, Dicko, Afobe- it was a real mixed bag.

 

[SingYourHeartsOut]

Nuno to Everton at some point ?

Perfect project for him after Lampard takes them down.

 

[Monketron]

"As Sporting Director at Wolverhampton Wanderers and previously Head of Football Development and Recruitment, Thelwell orchestrated Wolves’ rise from League One in 2013/14 to qualification for the Europa League in 2019/20, identifying and recruiting players like Diogo Jota, Ruben Neves, Adama Traore, Leander Dendoncker and Conor Coady."

Haha. Gotta hand it to whoever wrote that. Spin that even a Tory would be proud of.

 

[Supadavewolf]

Perfect project for him after Lampard takes them down.

Is Frank Lampard the manager there?

Why does nobody ever mention it?

 

[Manic88]

People can say what they want about him, but in the football industry he has an excellent CV and is highly respected.

More to the point Sellars is most defiantly not an upgrade on Thelwell. The only difference is Sellars is happy to take the money and let Mendes make the real decisions.

Good luck to Kevin, he did an excellent job and was criminally undervalued.

Given enough time and the right support he will make Everton better.

Sellars always struck me as defiant, but you’d think he would want to be an upgrade

 

[Hoganstolemywife]

Hope he doesn’t score any goals or assists people will keep bringing this thread up

Hahahahahah very good!

 

[jonesy]

Our tx business went to **** when he left…….. I’ll not go there this eve !!

 

[DanishWolf]

I don’t think people realised what a good job he did for us at the time. All you used to get from people was “Mendes signs all the players don’t he”. Personally I’m not sure Sellars is an upgrade on Thelwell to be honest.

I've shared this before, but I got to know him on a personal level, when he was at Wolves, and I've kept in contact with him and his family while in the US. Him and his wife are extremely nice people.

As for the job he did at Wolves, I was critical at first, but must admit that as I got to know him, I was struck by how hardworking he was, but also, how knowledgeable he was on tactics, players (even in my part of the world) as well as vision and strategy.

 

[North West Wanderer]

Superb appointment for a fantastic guy.

 

[Fenrir_]

I don’t understand why he didn’t get more respect from wolves fans, seemed to do a good job as far as I could see. Perhaps it was a time when we seemed to need a pantomime villain, he took over that role when moxey left!?

He will be good for Everton, the money they have wasted is staggering.

I don't think the "Grant Holt has been at a lot of clubs because he's a good player" went down well!

 

[Contrarian]

"As Sporting Director at Wolverhampton Wanderers and previously Head of Football Development and Recruitment, Thelwell orchestrated Wolves’ rise from League One in 2013/14 to qualification for the Europa League in 2019/20, identifying and recruiting players like Diogo Jota, Ruben Neves, Adama Traore, Leander Dendoncker and Conor Coady."

".. and Leo Bonitini, Duckens Nazon, Patrick Cutrone, Phil Ofusu-Ayeh, Roderick Miranda and Jesus Vallejo". Though he had nothing to do with "identifying" Fabio Silvia, which Thelwell should probably make clear on his CV.

 

[Golden_Wolf]

Chance to see how good he really is

 

[The Wolf Of Wombourne]

Got a load of stick here but I think a lot of it was unwarranted, especially as it’s come out since he’s left that he offered and recommended a lot of decent players only for Nuno to turn his nose up at them.

As other posters have mentioned, he’s an upgrade on Sellars in my opinion, well respected and liked from what we here in the football industry.

I’d say good luck to him but he’s going to a rival premier league side haha!

 

[Dan G WWFC]

No I'd be how good he is because most the success wasn't off him.

He mixed bag in the championship on a small budget.

McDonald, Afobe and Dicko the best buys.

Coady was poor till Nuno saved him.

Bennet and Ruddy was good on a free.

Let's not forget how talentless our squad was when Fosun took us over.

We paid how much for Joe Mason

 

[Sussex Wolf]

Good luck rebuilding Everton for the Champ Kevin!

 

[Mugwump]

Depends what they want him to do. As an administrator, he's ok. Anything else i wouldnt bother with. I can clearly remember when Jackett was here he was always pointing out players that we signed like Afobe, Mcdonald, Henry, Jacobs, Ricketts etc were ones he had already either worked with or tried to sign previously compared to others that didnt do so well. At the same time, Thelwell isnt a scout, he's there to make sure the right people are doing what they should be doing on the football side of things.

I still cant stand the bloke. He's so up himself its not funny.

 

[freezin]

Wasn't Coady here long before Thelwell?

Not sure how anyone can claim that to be stellar business. We could have got him for £600k from Liverpool but pontificated for 18 months and paid £2m from Huddersfield.

Thelwell's dossier consisted of Ivan Toney, Jordan Hugill and a couple more that would have been a useful at champ level.

Ian Cathro, the tactical genius, is the point where it all started to go wrong. IMHO.