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The man who brought Scott Dann to Birmingham City claims Karren Brady’s cheekiness led to the club having to DOUBLE its contract offer to seal the transfer.

Blues agreed a deal to sign Dann from Coventry City for £4 million in 2009 - but he nearly signed for Wolves after a hiccup in negotiations.

Paul Montgomery - who was Blues’ head of recruitment between 2008 and 2011 - says he agreed a deal to sign Dann and sent it off to chief executive Brady to draw up the contract.

“Karren Brady almost lost Scott,” Montgomery told BirminghamLive. “What would happen was the deal would be given to her and she would sign it off, for want of a better expression.

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“We agreed the wages with Scott’s agent, but when Karren sent the contract she put a bit less. The agent rang me: ‘What are you doing? We agreed. He’s going to Wolves!’

“I went: ‘Woah, take it easy! I’ll sort it, I’ll sort it’. When I found out she’d put a bit less I thought: ‘Why’d you do that?’

“It ended up with them retracting what was done and we ended up paying double what he originally wanted because we had to pay more than Wolves!”

Montgomery names Dann, now at Crystal Palace, as his best Blues signing. For more about the signings he made at Blues, the players they missed out on, and life working under Carson Yeung, you can listen to our latest Blue Noise podcast.