Genuinely pathetic. Send this fella packing. He only has one more year left and shouldn’t be able to bring in players on 5 year+ deals long after we don’t renew his contract.
There's a lot to be questioning him about, granted.
I don't think trying to renegotiate a multi-million pound deal after a global pandemic has caused widespread disruption to every industry and cost millions of people their jobs, livelihoods and hundreds of thousands of deaths, is one of them, though.
It was most likely the restructuring of the fee etc. And it probably is a decision taken by the whole board to do that.
And, perhaps our priorities have changed since Feb?
Think about it. In Feb, we had Gomes to come back, we had Gbamin.
Now Gomes has been back and the evidence is that he may well need longer to recover from the injury and he definitely needs someone next to him in midfield who isn't Davies or Sigurdsson, or Schneiderlin who has of course gone.
Gbamin was coming back in Feb/March and then did his Achilles once training resumed in May/June.
So, perhaps instead of being willing to pay £20m (for example) up front to Lille, the club have realised that they need to prioritise another position, so they are now only willing to pay £15m (in this hypothetical scenario) up front, with the rest of the payments spread over two seasons?
It's not all cut and dry. I do think Brands has got plenty wrong. But we don't know the ins and outs of this at all - and there's far too much which has happened since March to be thinking it's all down to one person.
