Decent questions from Andy, but he should have pushed on the Maguire error.
GB said that after 2023 issues they got the Directors and recruitment team in the same room for 2024.
So then HOW does such an error happen on the biggest transfer of the whole window? You'd have 3 or 4 people looking over the shoulder whilst the info was submitted.
Answer: it didn't happen. It is just a lie.
Anyone try to do a £3m+ corporate acquisition deal with 2 other 3rd parties will know there will be multiple lawyers, agents, banks etc crawling all over the execution with multiple controls at every step (they all want to get their %share of the deal!)
Personally I believe they were trying to offload Gallagher on the final day, and when that didn't go through they pulled the Maguire deal.
I've some sympathy with GB because he is powerless, and at least fronts up for interviews.