Liam Smith

Left Midfielder - Brentford
25 May 2032
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Marked for Liam Smith

286 Edition

The Brentford Gazette

19 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market19 Jan 2032

Lars-Jørgen Salvesen is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Brentford is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets19 Jan 2032

$2.1M settles it between the clubs for Michael Harris

Fulham have accepted the money. What Brentford do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Market19 Jan 2032

Liam Smith puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Brentford, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market19 Jan 2032

Brentford sell Charlie Hobbs for $1.3M

Charlie Hobbs has left for Millwall in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Transfer targets19 Jan 2032

Brentford rebuffed over Tom Cannon

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Liverpool have kept their man, and Brentford go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad19 Jan 2032

Donay Jansen in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Brentford this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Jan 2032

A row about effort at Brentford

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Afimico Pululu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match17 Jan 2032

Brentford come up short against Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad19 Jan 2032

King Udoh signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” King Udoh and Brentford agree another 2 years.

In brief

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The Brentford Gazette

29 Dec 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Dec 2031

34 days out for Reece Hutchinson after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Brentford will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market29 Dec 2031

Ivor Pandur is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Brentford is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout29 Dec 2031

Liam Smith: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Brentford have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match27 Dec 2031

4 matches without a win for Brentford

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Brentford are no longer polite ones.

Squad29 Dec 2031

Ivor Pandur falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad29 Dec 2031

A falling-out at Brentford

Donay Jansen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings29 Dec 2031

Donay Jansen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad29 Dec 2031

Josh Laqeretabua makes it 100

100 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.

The dugout29 Dec 2031

The manager makes an example of George Feeney

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

266 Edition

The Brentford Gazette

1 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 Sep 2031

Lars-Jørgen Salvesen has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Brentford they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets1 Sep 2031

Door shut on Jørgen Strand Larsen

Brentford asked and Crystal Palace said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout1 Sep 2031

Donay Jansen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Brentford may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market1 Sep 2031

Charlie Hobbs has said yes to Crewe Alexandra

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Brentford have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market1 Sep 2031

Liam Smith hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Brentford can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom1 Sep 2031

Window shuts: 43 in, 38 out at Brentford

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 43 arrived, 38 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom1 Sep 2031

Lars-Jørgen Salvesen has agreed to leave Brentford for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad1 Sep 2031

A falling-out at Brentford

Ivor Pandur and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad1 Sep 2031

Real improvement from Liam Wilkes at Brentford

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liam Wilkes is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

246 Edition

The Brentford Gazette

14 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market14 Apr 2031

Wyll Stanway hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Brentford can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout14 Apr 2031

Claudio Pagani says Brentford went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market14 Apr 2031

Only the photograph left for Nikita Chistyakov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nikita Chistyakov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Brentford the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad14 Apr 2031

Ivor Pandur falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad14 Apr 2031

A falling-out at Brentford

Donay Jansen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match12 Apr 2031

Brentford come up short against West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad14 Apr 2031

Ibrahim Faik wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Brentford know it.

Market14 Apr 2031

Talks stall between Brentford and Ivor Pandur

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout14 Apr 2031

Christoph Vogt: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief