The Brentford Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Josh Dasilva goes
West Ham United paid $7.7M and Brentford took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Brentford
Jordan Henderson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nathan Wilson steps up from the Brentford academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nathan Wilson 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
Brentford promote Oliver Hamilton from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Oliver Hamilton has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Squad Dango Ouattara falls out with a teammate over standards
- Boardroom Brentford are making the ground bigger
- Squad José Martínez still has not settled
- Squad Dango Ouattara has seen what the next man earns