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Marcel Brands has revealed he has a long term-plan to restructure Everton Football Club, a job which could take "five, six, ten years" - but the Blues' new Director of Football also insisted that everybody would get the opportunity to prove their worth at Goodison.

Everton first appointed a "Director of Football" in the summer of 2016, when renowned talent spotter Steve Walsh was recruited from champions Leicester City.

But Walsh's role did not evolve from identifying potential signings and Brands, who has been there, seen it and bought the Director of Football t-shirt - having spent eight successful years in the role at PSV after similar stints at AZ Alkmaar and RKC Waalwijk - was recruited with a remit to belatedly implement the model.

Brands, 56, explained how the system will work at Goodison Park.

"It means that everything that has to do with football is going through me," he explained. "I am responsible not only for the first team, but for me it’s very important to look after the youth academy.

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"It’s important to build a structure with the scouting, the youth academy, with the staff for a longer period.

"So you will not see my work yet. Of course everyone is focusing on this summer’s transfer market but that’s only part of the job.

"You will not see me on the pitch or interrupting in the starting XI because that’s the job of the coach. But I will look more to build structure behind the scenes not just for one year but for five, six, ten years."

Brands is aware of the English reluctance to embrace the Director of Football model and the 'manager is king' philosophy, but believes that model is outdated.

And he is confident that he and Marco Silva can make the system work at Everton.

"In a lot of countries it’s (Director of Football model) is normal - in Germany and Holland, for instance. England is one of the countries where there is still a lot of resistance.

"But if you see nowadays what a manager has to do and the size of the staff - 20 people or more and more than 25 players - you are busy with that job 24 hours a day.

"It’s impossible to build as structure around you and be able to look at the youth academies and that kind of thing. You think how much money clubs put into their youth academies and the coach is only concerned with the first team? That’s not the best structure to get the best results out of everything.

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"I think it’s a logical step. And Marco is a young coach. The new generations of coaches will be more used to working with a football director."

Brands is confident that himself and Silva - already referred to as the two M's around Finch Farm - will work well together.

And he explained that any decisions would always be mutual.

"I have never taken a transfer decision in 20 years as a football director on my own. I always do it with the coach and I always do it with my staff and the scouts, because I think it is important that scouts are involved in every new player that comes in.

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"That keeps them hard working, that keeps them motivated but I also always want to see the new players that come in.

"In the past 20 years, sometimes it is very difficult and it is very busy and it makes for crazy weeks, but I want to see them all before they come in because we spend a lot of money and there is a lot of money going on in English football and, of course, we have to spend the money we have in the right way.

Brands is keen to over see evolution, rather than revolution at Goodison Park.

He added: "We are going to look at every department and try to do the changes that are necessary. But first of all I would like to work with the people because I think there are a lot of good people here. I think the only thing they need is a litle bit more structure. And I will work on that.

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"The structure of the club is very important. The culture of the club here is a little bit similar to PSV, because it is also very family orientated. In Holland Ajax is, from the outside, a little bit more like a business club but PSV is more like a family club and I have the feeling Everton is also like that.

"I think I will fit very well in a family club because I am a person who likes to do things together.

"When I had my last day at PSV I had a video for the supporters and the last thing I said to them was that I was happy that the supporters at PSV were proud after eight years and that's the most important thing I want to achieve here."