….it’s all guesswork but I wonder if
@The binman chronicles @Billy Dean &
@Khalekan have hit on something here, suggesting the Benitez debacle is playing out here.
The club was already in a mess but has spiralled downwards since Benitez. It wasn’t just his failure as a coach, he caused great conflict throughout the club with his actions.
I have always suspected Brands in particular gets a bad deal. I get the criticism (that he probably acquired the likes of Klaassen) but I wonder if he at least had the diplomacy to keep things together. He was appointed to the Board, he worked with managers, not against them until Benitez refused to even pick up the phone to him.
As others have hinted, that massive mistake might have forced Moshiri into agreeing to not interfere with major appointments again. i wonder where Thelwell fits in this theory.
Not defending Brands but I remember at the time, he was dead set against sacking Silva our manager at the time, there are divisions everywhere at our dysfunctional club.