Woah, this thread has burnt my head out. This, that, the other..... the glaringly obvious is this: Brands, go get us a good striker. One that the rest of your buys can feed. Pay what we have to, do what you need to. Other than that, meh.
It’s as simple as that
I disagree there has been arguments for and against Brands work so far.
My view is that you can see he has an eye for a great player and some good deals incoming.
Unfortunately getting rid of players is slow and hard work don’t think he was presented with this problem at his previous job and it may take a little more time than he expected for him to get this side of the job done.