The Brentford Gazette
Market26 Mar 2035
Divin Mubama 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.
Market26 Mar 2035
Bendito Mantato 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.
Squad26 Mar 2035
A falling-out at Brentford
Kristoffer Ajer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Mar 2035
Lisav Eissat 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.
Match24 Mar 2035
Konta sends Brentford past Newcastle United
It finished 1‑0, and it was Konta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Brentford.
Squad26 Mar 2035
Brentford count the cost of losing Thomas Jackson
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings26 Mar 2035
Konta was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout26 Mar 2035
The manager makes an example of Emiliano Buendía
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2035
Too much change too quickly at Brentford
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Market Alexandr Kovalenko told to find a new club
- The dugout No place for Emmanuel Godwin on the big day
- The dugout Gennady Ivanov: “That is the standard”