Reply With QuoteWe've got zero direction, zero youth policy and the recruitment is a bad joke. The club is a shambles.Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee
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Hats off to Brentford. Average attendance little over 11,000. This is their 6th season at this level since promotion, having spent only one season in the 2nd tier since 1954. This is their best run in football since the second world war with this season potentially being the best yet.
Each season they lose their best players to large transfers. These fees must help keep the club doing as well as they do. Player recruitment seems to be excellent there, as does bringing through youngsters. Swansea had a very good record in the transfer market as they rose from nearly bombing out of the league to getting to the top flight.
When I look at clubs like Brentford, defying the odds, it makes me wonder how we've got things so spectacularly wrong.
We've got zero direction, zero youth policy and the recruitment is a bad joke. The club is a shambles.
Absolutely. On and off the pitch.
If they are bringing through youth it’s other clubs youth players as they binned off their own youth set up.
Probably easier to do being a small club in London .
Even so, at least they have recognised that is a viable option of producing players, and is clearly successful (to an extent). What's our strategy? We're a capital city and don't even produce our own players. Cameron Coxe should save himself before it's too late and demand a transfer away from our shitshow.
Its easier for them to pick up talented youngsters from bigger clubs due to their location.
Chris Mepham was released by Chelsea as a kid and they sold him for 10m+
I read a newspaper article recently (I forget which), that stated that Brentford have an excellent North African scouting set up. Maybe we should develop one? Along with a youth policy, of course...
Well they continue to unearth these players and play a pleasing on the eye style of football rather than the slow , “difficult to beat” brand normally adapted by teams away from home that we are also churning out at home .....
They ditched their academy because bigger clubs would pick off their best young players after Brentford had nurtured them. IIRC the compensation wasn't enough to make it cost effective.
Before he left, NW mentioned he had no idea about a Scottish striker we were linked with and he said maybe it was someone the recruitment department were looking at, so it'd be nice to know who's involved in that and what they're doing.
Incredible what a club can do when they have a plan in place...
Our scouting set up extends from Bristol to Oxford
They do. Obviously identified N Africa as a part of the world that is relatively overlooked. Also, they don't necessarily go for free transfers : most of their players they've paid between 500k and £3m. Money spent, yes, but not big lumps of it like us, on players not worth a fraction of their fee..
Which players have they signed as a result of this North African scouting set up?
Brentford have done amazingly well considering the size of the club but they are only six points ahead of us at the moment.
Im not sure they even have one, can’t find any mention of it online.
Either way, we’ve massively outspent them for years and despite that we are “only” six points below them and look amateur in comparison with our how coaching and recruitment is ran. Does anyone know how many players we’ve sold for profit over the last 10 years? Shoddy recruitment
The amount of players they’ve bought for peanuts, or brought through their system after they have been released from bigger clubs, then sold on for huge profit is staggering.
They then reinvest some of that money and the cycle starts again, slowly improving as a team and eventually they may get promoted. Will be a terrific achievement if they do.
Benrahma is Algerian. Played in France before signing for Brentford.
You have to go back to the Ridsdale and Jones years pre the Fowler gamble to see the last time we were sensible in the market.
But, Malky's first season was also in that ilk. He built a good team from nothing. The next season, the money came and it's been wrong ever since then.
Yes. Crewe were one club that benefited from location as well. It wasn't so much that Gradi was a great unearther of talent, but more to do with the fact that Manchester and Liverpool clubs were letting fairly decent players leave for nothing.
6 points at the half way stage, you’d have to think with the way both clubs are headed this season it’s more likely to increase than decrease.
For us recruitment has been wrong from the off with these owners.
The first thing anybody who buys into a business they know diddly about would be to get somebody on board who does. Not our lot. They just play a real life game of Championship Manager. Sadly, he also has the money to do a real life equivalent of turning off the computer when things get a bit boring and he can't be arsed any longer.
We should have got people in with knowledge from the off. A recruitment guy to oversee all of these levels of recruitment being number one. We didn't and seem to never learn from our mistakes either.
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