Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
The use of the word 'Hope' is significant.
The word usually would be 'confident'. 'Hope' suggests it's a long shot.
That's being damned by faint praise.
Glad you pointed the use of that word. My interpretation of it is that Brands is not confident as you say is very meaningful.
Could it be that Brands was not giving his approval to this signing.