The Brentford Gazette
Market25 Aug 2036
Terms done: Konta is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Burnley waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Brentford is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market25 Aug 2036
Reggie Walsh 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.
Transfer targets25 Aug 2036
Door shut on Shumaira Mheuka
Brentford asked and Brighton said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market25 Aug 2036
Brentford say no — this time
The offer from Plymouth Argyle for Mark O'Mahony was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The dugout25 Aug 2036
Jérôme Ménard: 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.
Market25 Aug 2036
Alexandr Kovalenko 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 targets25 Aug 2036
Sontje Hansen due for a Brentford medical
Everything agreed with Wolverhampton, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad25 Aug 2036
Tempers go at Brentford
Ayden Heaven 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.
Boardroom25 Aug 2036
Brentford agree a free transfer for Oskar Fenger
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
In brief
- Match Southampton take the points off Brentford
- Squad Brentford count the cost of losing Benjamin Brown
- Squad Words at Brentford training over how hard people work