The Brentford Gazette
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $32.7M for Vangelis Pavlidis
Brentford have gone to Benfica with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market17 Aug 2026
Chelsea come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Brentford did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Heinz Mörschel due for a Brentford medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brentford lose Josh Oladapo-Gamu
30 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Brentford
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Brentford rebuffed over Matty James
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Brentford go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jacob Cooper steps up from the Brentford academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jacob Cooper has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
George Matthews steps up from the Brentford academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. George Matthews has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andrew Bennett steps up from the Brentford academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrew Bennett has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Boardroom Brentford sign off a bigger ground
- Squad Dango Ouattara wants to know why he earns less
- The dugout Jacob Cooper knocks on the manager's door