Alexander Isak

[Dr.Spaceman]

Everton are absolutely bollocks and Brentford aren't, I'm not surprised. 

[The College Dropout]

No.. DCL is bad. He gets chances and misses them.

 

His general play isn't even impressive. Lad is not good.

[Sibierski]

1 hour ago, The College Dropout said:

I don’t think people realise how bad DCL is.  They think he’s super injury prone - he’s not. He’s just shit. 43 PL appearances since the start of last Season. 9 goals.  

 

Brentford are too smart to sign DCL.  Signed Wissa,  Toney and Mbeumo for a combined £20m. Wissa and Mbeumo have 7 and 8 goals this season already. 
 

We need to be more like Brentford but with a bigger budget.  

Brentford one of those clubs people will still think in seasons to come are flawless with their transfers, when it’s not been that in recent windows.

 

Flekken £11m

Scahde £22m

Collins £23m

Thiago £30m

F. Carvallho £27.5m

van den Berg £25m

Nunes £10m

 

All I would say haven’t moved the needle for them. How can we get bigger than that here? 
 

Edit: Looking at Brentford further. All their top buys have really been when in Championship. Who have either moved on, going to move on, or into their 30s now and been strong players for them. Still relying on those key players. 
 

And the window before those players I’ve listed, Damsgaard £16m, Kane Lewis-Pottee £16m. We have this run of buys here, club would be in meltdown.

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Sibierski

[BonesJones]

Fuck selling that

[The College Dropout]

9 hours ago, Sibierski said:

Brentford one of those clubs people will still think in seasons to come are flawless with their transfers, when it’s not been that in recent windows.

 

Flekken £11m

Scahde £22m

Collins £23m

Thiago £30m

F. Carvallho £27.5m

van den Berg £25m

Nunes £10m

 

All I would say haven’t moved the needle for them. How can we get bigger than that here? 
 

Edit: Looking at Brentford further. All their top buys have really been when in Championship. Who have either moved on, going to move on, or into their 30s now and been strong players for them. Still relying on those key players. 
 

And the window before those players I’ve listed, Damsgaard £16m, Kane Lewis-Pottee £16m. We have this run of buys here, club would be in meltdown.

 

 

 

Brentford have the third lowest wage bill in the division.  Lower than Leicester and only above the other 2 promoted teams. Their squad cost in fees is 15th. They should be fighting relegation every season. But through transfers and great management they don’t.  

 

A lot of those are good players imo. The terrible GK aside most of them are 24 or under with room to improve.  But look at the macro cost of the squad in fees and wages it’s unarguable that Brentford spend their money wisely.  

[Sibierski]

33 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Brentford have the third lowest wage bill in the division.  Lower than Leicester and only above the other 2 promoted teams. Their squad cost in fees is 15th. They should be fighting relegation every season. But through transfers and great management they don’t.  

 

A lot of those are good players imo. The terrible GK aside most of them are 24 or under with room to improve.  But look at the macro cost of the squad in fees and wages it’s unarguable that Brentford spend their money wisely.  

Spend money wisely on wages, and in their early years good spending on players, but I’d say wages aside, their spending hasn’t been good. Those players may have room to grow because of age, but by large they’re not offering much to them and it’s the players from when in championship still key to them (Pinnock / Henry / Norgaard / Janelt / Mbeumo).

 

They also got rid of their academy for 7 seasons, which will mean playing catch up in future seasons and need to keep spending on squad filler as they lose players.

[TRon]

15 hours ago, The College Dropout said:

I don’t think people realise how bad DCL is.  They think he’s super injury prone - he’s not. He’s just shit. 43 PL appearances since the start of last Season. 9 goals.  

 

Brentford are too smart to sign DCL.  Signed Wissa,  Toney and Mbeumo for a combined £20m. Wissa and Mbeumo have 7 and 8 goals this season already. 
 

We need to be more like Brentford but with a bigger budget.  

 

The rumour was that Howe really rated him, and that was back when he was being quoted at £40m plus. It's not out of the question that at a lower price Howe might think he could do a Chris Wood type job as a target man alternative to Wilson for a relatively low fee.