The Brentford Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Fábio Carvalho moves on
Derby County pay $22.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Benfica tell Brentford: Andreas Schjelderup is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Josh Dasilva agrees terms with Northampton Town
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Brentford people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market17 Aug 2026
Manchester City 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
Jalal Abdullai turns down Brentford
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Molde keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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
Jonathan White steps up from the Brentford academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan White 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Brentford sign off a bigger ground
A capacity of 23824 on the plans. A decision judged twenty years from now, by people who were not in the room and will have opinions anyway.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Caoimhin Kelleher wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Brentford have no good answer.
In brief
- The terraces The Michael Kayode rumours reach the terraces
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for Brentford
- The dugout The manager comes out for Nathan Collins