Former Everton director of football Marcel Brands has detailed how he made a huge effort to bring Mikel Arteta back to Goodison Park as manager
Former director of football Marcel Brands claims he “moved heaven and earth” to bring Mikel Arteta back to Everton as manager.
The Scot said: “When I was being offered the West Ham job, I had actually been in Germany with Farhad Moshiri to take the Everton job. The phone rang, and it was David Sullivan – in the middle of the meeting with Everton. “But the next day Everton didn’t make more contact, so I phoned David and said, ‘If it’s still there’, and it couldn’t have gone better – it was the right choice.”
“He is also a former player of course. I spent the entire evening at his house and I saw him as the ideal man for us.
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