The Brentford Gazette
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Arthur Caike
141 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brentford lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Sep 2026
Brentford taken apart
0‑3 to Chelsea, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Brentford
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Brentford are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Brentford
Thiago 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Michael Kayode gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Mikkel Damsgaard
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Brentford dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
Julian Eyestone has seen enough of Krylya Sovetov
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Brentford, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Everybody has an opinion about Thiago
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
In brief
- Squad Mathias Jensen dropped after a run of poor form
- Player ratings Thiago never got going
- Player ratings Off the pace: Kaye Furo