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Marcel Brands

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We’ll probably never know the whole story. It’s clear that Moshiri threw Steve Walsh & Koeman together, which was obviously bound to fail & did. I don’t believe Walsh was responsible for Sigurdssen, Williams, Bolasie, Klaasen, Rooney. Lookman & Vlasic probably yes.

So then he brings in a 2nd DoF and goes out himself & signs Iwobi…..

So that’s 2 DoFs who were undermined & hung out to dry. We can only hope Moshiri has learned from this.

That said, is there any evidence that Brands could have moved us forward given the chance? He says FSW vetoed his deal for Dumfries for £12.5M. He’s only played 5 games for Inter. Forgetting Rondon (I wish we could), Townsend & Gray for £1.7M is fantastic business.
 
Rudolf Hucker said:
We’ll probably never know the whole story. It’s clear that Moshiri threw Steve Walsh & Koeman together, which was obviously bound to fail & did. I don’t believe Walsh was responsible for Sigurdssen, Williams, Bolasie, Klaasen, Rooney. Lookman & Vlasic probably yes.

So then he brings in a 2nd DoF and goes out himself & signs Iwobi…..

So that’s 2 DoFs who were undermined & hung out to dry. We can only hope Moshiri has learned from this.

That said, is there any evidence that Brands could have moved us forward given the chance? He says FSW vetoed his deal for Dumfries for £12.5M. He’s only played 5 games for Inter. Forgetting Rondon (I wish we could), Townsend & Gray for £1.7M is fantastic business.
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Is it though? money wise it's good but both those players have done exactly what they do at every previous club they have been at, have a few good games then go off the boil. Very frustrating in terms of Gray as there is obvious ability there but form has always been an issue with him.
 

Well his departure takes care of one angle of discontent. Reading between the lines I think Benitez stated him or me. So all transfer biz given to Benitez, more business like signing Rondon, happen. Now we have no DoF but nothing said about who will take care of his other roles in the club.
 
Simon Buttle said:
Means nothing though and none of them moved for him did they? I saw a few of the Mainz games he played in, he is a pretty average steady eddie sort of a player and was never in any way a replacement for Gueye.
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From my admitedly miniscule knowledge of scouting I reckon the observations that he is CB in the making seem viable. Granted he'd mostly need St Virgins wheelchair but the attributes are there.

As you say though, never a swap for a Gueye/Kante type terrier.
 

roy vernon said:
I’m sorry Dave, I can’t keep up, is Moshiri still a carpet bagger, or, was it all that ‘Dutch Divvy’s fault?
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It's easy: he's still a carpetbagger who needs pitchforking. Entirely consistent. Why would you have been confused over that? Was it when I restated in the last 2 days that he needs to be run out of the club?
 

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