Brentford don’t sell someone for ten million and buy another for ten million do they? Which is whT you appeared to be saying. You said the allams arepocketing the cash, they really aren’t. They’ve sold good players every year and bought cheap and brought them on. their owner isn’t making money out of it and neither are the allams. It’s the championship no one does
Brentford haven’t bought cheap though. They have spent £28m which by Championship standards is high. Brentford Transfers Out £36m Brentford Transfers In £28m Hull City Transfers Out £20m Hull City Transfers In £3m (some are undisclosed)
Is that this season? Brentford have been improving year on year for many years and have relied on selling players to stay afloat. can you show the link? As the one l looked at showed 18 million in 39 million out for Brentford
So the owners pocketed 8 million and not reinvested then? The oneI looked at stated 18 million in 39 million out
From the guardian in 2018 Two years ago they sold the future England defender James Tarkowski to Burnley. Sometimes it is a roulette of calculated risks; last summer the sales of Harlee Dean, Maxime Colin and Jota – who left for a total of almost £12m – were countered by the arrivals of £1.8m Ollie Watkins, £1.6m Neal Maupay and Kamohelo Mokotjo, for £880,000. The list goes on and on – in total it is estimated they have made a profit of £50m by selling 11 players since 2014. This summer Ezri Konsa, the England Under-21 defender, replaced Egan while Julian Jeanvier arrived from the Ligue 2 champions, Reims. So did the owner pocket 50 million They’re still in debt to him to 40 million I think And he’s wrote off millions as well. They only reinvested a fraction of that 50 million. Wheres the rest gone??
No, I suspect with the bigger fees they are reinvesting they are paying higher wages. That probably takes care of the £8m excess.
Brentford's turnover (excluding player sales) is less than £15 million whilst their expenditure (excluding player purchases) is over £25 million. Over 5 years that's £50 million. If you want the exact figures since 2014 you can look up their accounts. Brentford need to make a profit selling players to pay their bills. A bit like us now the Premier League monies have dried up.
There’s no information to cover this current season, only last which had theirs at £17m and ours at £31m. But they have quite a few players on circa £20k a week. Jansson/Mbuemo/Benrahma for example. We’ve also lost the majority of our high earners. It wouldn’t surprise me if our wage bills were similar now. Look at the players we lost off the wage bill last season.
Its not crap, as you have shown over the passed 5 years Brentford made the best use of the money they've had, we didn't. We sell players when we have to, they sell players when they want to. I agree Brentford is a very good example to follow but there are important differences between us and them. All down to how the owners see the management of a football club.
As in he took over a club in the bottom division and ran up a hundred million of debt to get them where they are And that’s only in the championship He’s wrote off millions as well They have to sell to survive year on year Which they do but still lose money every year. And he covers it. We don’t have a sugar daddy and never will.
