…I don’t think anybody interfered more on transfer dealings than when Brands was DOF. What he was able to do was keep the warring factions onside until Benitez came in and refused to talk to him.
There’ll clearly be examples of player Brands brought in, but as an administrator he was held in total respect by Board members and everybody at Finch Farm. We were a shambles of a club but it was no coincidence to me that the we fell apart after he left, it’s also no surprise that he’s now Club President at PSV.