' Brentford 'the example' '

' Brentford 'the example' '



Bees manager Thomas Frank says their story should be an inspiration for other teams around the world.


THOMAS FRANK:

The west Londoners are back in the top flight after a 74-year absence and the club are widely regarded as the blueprint to follow for teams lower down the league ladder.

"This must be an example to follow for so many clubs around the world," Frank said.

"I'm so pleased, humble and proud to be part of this journey. There's so many fantastic people involved.

"The way the club has been built and just progresses year after year, after year.

"The journey the club's been on has been absolutely remarkable. We were so close twice last season, through automatic and then the play-offs.

"We were so devastated at losing then we had a 10-day holiday, even less actually, and got back into it with the Covid restrictions.

"Then there was the second, third, fourth wave. It's been the most condensed season. We've had setbacks and then again we were in the play-offs.

"But I thought the players were calm, relaxed and ready to be ruthless today. They had a great attitude and they deserve this."

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They are probably happy they lost against Fulham in that last play off final,now they can now play in front of their fans in the Premier league and have a proper pre-season.

Glad for them to be honest and will be interesting to see how the cope in premiership. I do expect them to be relegated but look forward to watching them
imagine. if city followed their structure it would have been a major outcry Scrapping the academy Selling on the best players each year. Not sure we would have given the club time

Can you imagine if we sold our best player every year?

Actually we used to. Fans used to hate it.

Do fans have the patience to follow a plan that's taken 10yrs plus every year selling best players and hope he clubs foreign scouting policy works? But congratulations to them they deserve the chance after fo many failures..

It does help that they are on the outskirts of London.

The pull of London has always assisted clubs.

Worth pointing out that in the last decade or so when Brentford have been so brilliant and us so shambolic we have got promoted to the premier league twice and reached two cup finals.

Worth pointing out that in the last decade or so when Brentford have been so brilliant and us so shambolic we have got promoted to the premier league twice and reached two cup finals.

agree with most of what you say but but worth pointing out we have only been in one cup final in last decade

Worth pointing out that in the last decade or so when Brentford have been so brilliant and us so shambolic we have got promoted to the premier league twice and reached two cup finals.

agree with most of what you say but but worth pointing out we have only been in one cup final in last decade

More than probably 80 other clubs in English pyramid......very few clubs get to a final especially a 2nd level club like us....

It's a great transfer policy.

But it wouldn't work for clubs like us.

Brentford were in the lower leagues when this started, by that I mean below the Championship.

They were able to build up this transfer policy and grow it to be as successful as they are now. Their fans weren't getting impatient.

For us, we are in the Championship and our fanbase expects us to be going for promotion every season. So the time to implement that sort of transfer policy just isn't there. Our recent relative success is our enemy in that respect.

It does take time to get it to be as successful as Brentford have done, it doesn't just happen overnight.

Worth pointing out that in the last decade or so when Brentford have been so brilliant and us so shambolic we have got promoted to the premier league twice and reached two cup finals.

agree with most of what you say but but worth pointing out we have only been in one cup final in last decade

Rather pedantic reply Abergavenny. The poster clearly states "the last decade or so",indicating it is NOT an exact 10 year period.

The profits they make from transfers has been amazing.

The difference between us and them is we have tended to buy older players or younger players with over inflated prices (Murphy etc)


Brentford have managed to buy players for a few million from the division below or Europe and sell them at huge profits.


However, when selling one of their best players the fans have confidence they can go find another player and keep the team moving forward.


Such a policy would work for us especially if we combined that with our academy and players coming through.

Perhaps for every two or three we would only need to sell one.

Until now however we have no confidence in the transfer policy of our club to do this.

I can't remember the last time we actually made a profit on a player.

Anyway, good luck to them. And very happy they did it the way they did and against the jacks.

The profits they make from transfers has been amazing.

The difference between us and them is we have tended to buy older players or younger players with over inflated prices (Murphy etc)


Brentford have managed to buy players for a few million from the division below or Europe and sell them at huge profits.


However, when selling one of their best players the fans have confidence they can go find another player and keep the team moving forward.


Such a policy would work for us especially if we combined that with our academy and players coming through.

Perhaps for every two or three we would only need to sell one.

Until now however we have no confidence in the transfer policy of our club to do this.

I can't remember the last time we actually made a profit on a player.

Anyway, good luck to them. And very happy they did it the way they did and against the jacks.

I believe the last time we made a profit on a player was when we sold Zohore, I could be wrong

The profits they make from transfers has been amazing.

The difference between us and them is we have tended to buy older players or younger players with over inflated prices (Murphy etc)


Brentford have managed to buy players for a few million from the division below or Europe and sell them at huge profits.


However, when selling one of their best players the fans have confidence they can go find another player and keep the team moving forward.


Such a policy would work for us especially if we combined that with our academy and players coming through.

Perhaps for every two or three we would only need to sell one.

Until now however we have no confidence in the transfer policy of our club to do this.

I can't remember the last time we actually made a profit on a player.

Anyway, good luck to them. And very happy they did it the way they did and against the jacks.

I believe the last time we made a profit on a player was when we sold Zohore, I could be wrong

Ah. yes I think you are right there!

The fact we are scrabbling around trying to remember when the last time we made a profit is shocking!

Probably almost impossible for a club like Brentford to run a successful academy as best prospects will be stolen from them by londons "big" clubs. I'm sure part of the story is them getting fed up of that happening.

The profits they make from transfers has been amazing.

The difference between us and them is we have tended to buy older players or younger players with over inflated prices (Murphy etc)


Brentford have managed to buy players for a few million from the division below or Europe and sell them at huge profits.


However, when selling one of their best players the fans have confidence they can go find another player and keep the team moving forward.


Such a policy would work for us especially if we combined that with our academy and players coming through.

Perhaps for every two or three we would only need to sell one.

Until now however we have no confidence in the transfer policy of our club to do this.

I can't remember the last time we actually made a profit on a player.

Anyway, good luck to them. And very happy they did it the way they did and against the jacks.

I believe the last time we made a profit on a player was when we sold Zohore, I could be wrong

Ah. yes I think you are right there!

The fact we are scrabbling around trying to remember when the last time we made a profit is shocking!

Too think how few we mad a profit on transfer fee is amazing Like you i can think of Zahore and Mason both players we were happy to leave We now have a few we could make a profit on if they were sold tomorrow Moore , NG ,Nelson ,Phillips Some players we could have made a great profit on but the stayed and the value went down Etheridge , Marshall for example We could have made a good profit on Morrison but glad he stayed And maybe for the first time in a long while we have some academy players that have a value

The profits they make from transfers has been amazing.

The difference between us and them is we have tended to buy older players or younger players with over inflated prices (Murphy etc)


Brentford have managed to buy players for a few million from the division below or Europe and sell them at huge profits.


However, when selling one of their best players the fans have confidence they can go find another player and keep the team moving forward.


Such a policy would work for us especially if we combined that with our academy and players coming through.

Perhaps for every two or three we would only need to sell one.

Until now however we have no confidence in the transfer policy of our club to do this.

I can't remember the last time we actually made a profit on a player.

Anyway, good luck to them. And very happy they did it the way they did and against the jacks.

Your memory must be bad then.

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