If you believe that the finance department would have contacted brands with a clear and concise alternative accounting projection that would potentially cause such severe cashflow issues (with loans from banks being pulled and credit being terminated) that we couldnt sign a player as he was €5mil more expensive...
Then that would be bewildering.
It seems pretty clear at this point that Gabriel was good to go but Brands went back to renegotiate thinking he could save the club some money on the deal...
From that moment if indecisiveness until now theres been no deal agreed with Lille. For one of our prime targets its pure stupidity for the sake of €5mil if he ends up elsewhere.