Footie Central | Football Blog Blogging the football world
Manchester United’s long search for a Director of Football could be over.
The Old Trafford side are one of the few premier League sides that currently do not have anybody performing such a role, and it has been one of the reasons attributed to their transfer policy being somewhat disjointed in recent years.
Various names have been suggested for the position, including a number of distinguished ex-players, but now they may have alighted on Marcel Brands instead.
The 58-year-old Dutchman is fulfilling a similar role at Everton, where he has been credited with bringing the likes of James Rodriguez and Allan to the club. However, his contract at Goodison Park is up next summer, and if United were to offer him the job, he would find it hard to turn them down.
Brands joined the Merseyside club in 2018 after a long career in Dutch football with the likes of PSV Eindhoven, AZ Alkmaar and RKC Waalwijk.
Andy is an exiled English football fan living in Cyprus. He loves all sports but football is his abiding passion, and he still has dreams every now and then about scoring the winning goal in a Wembley Cup Final, even though his playing days are long gone. He follows most major leagues, across Europe at least, and has a favoured team in each. When he’s not watching, listening, reading or downloading podcasts about football, he spend his time worrying about his beloved Arsenal.