Transfer Rumours Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

[tigerscanada]

Yup.

The old man always maintained we screwed Mansfield for a certain player at the time although it was a fair wadge at the time by all accounts.

40k.

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

The sale of Bowen effectively relegated us.
Not a good deal in my book

Who's to say GE that if the Bowen deal hadn't gone through we'd have stayed up. Knowing he missed. chance to play Premiership football, quadruple his wages, signing on fee etc etc, would he have been the same player...?

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

Under qualified to post on here!!!!

Or over as the case may be...

 

[AlRawdah]

I can remember Robertson getting slated at City.

Comments like ‘He cannot defend’ or ‘He gets caught out of position’ regularly cropped up.


At some clubs it’s not about money..it’s about turning potential into the finishing article.

That goal he scored at Derby in the play offs was one of my favourite City goals of all time. Lung busting.

 

[Tentotwo]

Who's to say GE that if the Bowen deal hadn't gone through we'd have stayed up. Knowing he missed. change to play Premiership football, quadrupole his wages, signing on fee etc etc, would he have been the same player...?

Great question with no answers really.

Can only add after Bowen and Turbo departed we fell apart and became an embarrassment to the Championship with fans calling for McCann’s head.

 

[TIGERSCAVE]

Southampton signed van diyk for 13 million and sold him for 75 million a couple of years later. celtic are probably gutted but there you go

Wasn't Tennent looking at Van Dyke for Brucie and then came back with Robbo instead...?

 

[Tentotwo]

That goal he scored at Derby was one of my favourite City goals of all time. Lung busting.

Sucker punch because without it Derby might of....naa won’t go there.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Sucker punch because without it Derby might of....naa won’t go there.

Naa they wouldn’t
Broke their hearts that night and they’ve never recovered

 

[GLP]

Naa they wouldn’t
Broke their hearts that night and they’ve never recovered

I bumped into an Asian Elvis impersonator on route to the second leg at the KC v Derby - he was a Derby fan - Quite a character

 

[Steven Toast]

And yet despite all that, they've not played five years out of the last 12 in the PL.... Great system!

Of course they haven't, they weren't bankrolled like we were. Brentford's owner, while pretty well off, didn't take over until 2014 and until then they were ran by CSM Greg Dyke. He invested in the club, but they were already in financial cack when he arrived on the scene.

It wasn't until Benham took over and they started loaning/buying players from his other club, FC Midtjylland that they really got going.

That's been key to their success and growing stature; the scouting network at Midtjylland is outstanding and they have links to academies and clubs in Nigeria and Iceland that allows them to get young players in on the cheap.

Because of it, they managed to build their own brand new stadium that they own themselves, improve their academy and consistently stay in the black.

 

[Steven Toast]

Naa they wouldn’t
Broke their hearts that night and they’ve never recovered

I hope Derby sink into the oblivion and are never heard from again, save for a headline that states that they've come runner up in the FA Vase.

 

[GLP]

Of course they haven't, they weren't bankrolled like we were. Brentford's owner, while pretty well off, didn't take over until 2014 and until then they were ran by CSM Greg Dyke. He invested in the club, but they were already in financial cack when he arrived on the scene.

It wasn't until Benham took over and they started loaning/buying players from his other club, FC Midtjylland that they really got going.

That's been key to their success and growing stature; the scouting network at Midtjylland is outstanding and they have links to academies and clubs in Nigeria and Iceland that allows them to get young players in on the cheap.

Because of it, they managed to build their own brand new stadium that they own themselves, improve their academy and consistently stay in the black.

They are also trying to do this in amongst all the other London clubs. No easy task.

 

[Steven Toast]

They are also trying to do this in amongst all the other London clubs. No easy task.

Absolutely, I think it's one of the most underrated clubs in the country in terms of how well run they are.

Hull City can follow that model if they can find a foreign team they can tap into and an owner who shares that vision.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

Of course they haven't, they weren't bankrolled like we were. Brentford's owner, while pretty well off, didn't take over until 2014 and until then they were ran by CSM Greg Dyke. He invested in the club, but they were already in financial cack when he arrived on the scene.

It wasn't until Benham took over and they started loaning/buying players from his other club, FC Midtjylland that they really got going.

That's been key to their success and growing stature; the scouting network at Midtjylland is outstanding and they have links to academies and clubs in Nigeria and Iceland that allows them to get young players in on the cheap.

Because of it, they managed to build their own brand new stadium that they own themselves, improve their academy and consistently stay in the black.

They don’t have an academy
They scrapped it.
Benham has been there since 09 too
Apart from that

 

[Shark Sports]

Brentford always have 2-3 players identified for every position. So should they sell a player they have potential signings already identified that fit into their style of play. I can’t remember any Brentford player in recent times going for an inconsiderable amount. They always seem to get a fair fee.

They always get considerable fees but usually its a couple of million under what they could've got if they waited and waited. Although doing business early means its easier to get replacements and gives them time to settle. We could never adopt their philosophy under the Allams as our fans would whinge when we didn't spend all the money we got. Not that Brentford do either.

Although, always felt Bowen's replacement was KLP and his replacement is probably James Scott. So we've got a decent succession path going

 

[Shark Sports]

They don’t have an academy
They scrapped it.
Benham has been there since 09 too
Apart from that

They don't have an academy but there's no point in London. Any decent player will get nicked for a pittance. They specialise in taking players 18-20 and developing those. Done that well with Mepham and DaSilva. Their fixture list is significantly tougher opposition than ours too which can only be good for development

 

[Steven Toast]

They don’t have an academy
They scrapped it.
Benham has been there since 09 too
Apart from that

You're right, they did scrap the academy because they didn't like the EPPP. They have a B team and a separate youth system now.

Benham took over in 2014. He was just an investor before then, he wasn't the owner.

 

[Steven Toast]

They always get considerable fees but usually its a couple of million under what they could've got if they waited and waited. Although doing business early means its easier to get replacements and gives them time to settle. We could never adopt their philosophy under the Allams as our fans would whinge when we didn't spend all the money we got. Not that Brentford do either.

Although, always felt Bowen's replacement was KLP and his replacement is probably James Scott. So we've got a decent succession path going

I think Brentford accept that players will use them as a gateway club to a bigger one, but there seems to be an understanding of this with the fans and it's a system that definitely works because they make a very good profit from it.

 

[Chazz Rheinhold]

You're right, they did scrap the academy because they didn't like the EPPP. They have a B team and a separate youth system now.

Benham took over in 2014. He was just an investor before then, he wasn't the owner.

Putting money into the club and was there as I said. Huge influence no doubt from the off

 

[Shark Sports]

I think Brentford accept that players will use them as a gateway club to a bigger one, but there seems to be an understanding of this with the fans and it's a system that definitely works because they make a very good profit from it.

They do. Aren't 90% of clubs gateway ones though? Brentford do all that while operating with a wage bill of under £20m. It's so impressive

 

[Steven Toast]

Putting money into the club and was there as I said. Huge influence no doubt from the off

They were still in League One until 2014, they reached the playoffs one season but lost to Yeovil in the final. Once he took over as full owner, they started doing much better and haven't looked back since.

Semantics aside, they're a club you want to model your own on.