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I have to laugh at people who moan about the Director of Football model. Practically every successful club operates under that model and have done for a while. It's like someone moaning about there being 23 man squads. It's just a fact of football. It isn't going back.

Except Moshiri owns the club and doesn't answer to Brands. Moshiri bought Iwobi so Brands is not responsible for that one, sorry. Some of our players are Moshiri buys.

Moshiri bought Iwobi.

Spectacular mental gymnastics to blame the director of football for a player getting injuries when he had no injury record prior to signing. I mean really.

I don't think any of them were bad signings. None of them were inspired signings or game changers either but none of them were bad.

Don't really see what was wrong with it to be honest.

Why mate?

You can watch it now on BT on-demand.

He said when he came in that he is not the man for a quick turnaround but the man for a long term project. We're drastically short at centre half but I'm really glad we didn't pay £25m for Marcos Rojo. We all want a young team and we have two young players as back-up centre backs. I'd rather...

Can someone do a version of the There is no need to be upset meme but with Marcel's face? Thanks in advance.

This really is a stunning post. Confidently asserting that there is nothing to multi-million pound business deals but good social skills and contacts. Were you ever a director at an elite level Sports Franchise? You'd have to be to know that. In plain English once again: We have several players...

Brought in Andre Gomes for much lower than people anticipated. Very good. Sold Nicola Vlasic for a small profit. Good but hold the parade because he was after all one of if not our most sellable for sale player. Marcel has done a good job so far but let's see what else he can pull off in this...

Harsh. The best striker to move in January was Batshuayi and he couldn't even get on the pitch for Palace today.

Or Unsworth even.

Man Utd are us last season but blown up to the enth degree and instead of bringing in Brands and Silva they've given Allardyce a three-year contract.

I am asking for you to point to another bit of transfer business in that window which supports your claim that not buying a striker in the January window is a negative thing. You can't. You're trying to pin a wider business trend as a negative specific to Brands.

Still conjecture. There is no way of determining who scouts or identifies specific players first. You're just making something up to support your point.

He did. He didn't go out and waste money in a low value market for a short term fix with a player who wasn't in the long term plan. If you could point to another player that arrived at another club as an example then that would be something but you can't.

Conjecture. There's no official information on who bought/scouted who.

Who should he have got? Who would have not been another Tosun or Walcott?