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It isn't really. If you look at the players purchased since they were promoted to the Championship it's pretty much aligned to what we aspire to bring in. Young players with potential for a high sell on value. Equally they balance that out with free agents who have prior experience in the...

It's not really poor planning though is it. It's a calculated risk that Robins and the backroom staff have chosen to take. Bring in less quantity to focus the budget on signing more quality.

They haven't got that many more 'Championship ready' signings than us really. If you look at the team that played us last night a good chunk of the team have either been with them since L1/2 or have been brought in from lower divisions.

I suspect 5-6 signings will probably do. CB, LWB, CM, CAM, ST is what we certainly need from the offset. If players are sold which is fairly likely we'll obviously need replacements for them as well. Keep on saying it though we need to be proactive with regards to finding permanent clubs for...

I think getting a reasonable fee will be more difficult than people suggest, as the main issue with finding him a suitor will be his wages. As considering his likely destination would be L1, his contract will be far above what most in the league would be willing and able to pay. Also, at the...

Great work for all involved getting this over the line, as well as the other extensions. Refreshing change from contracts being run down.

Right, brilliant.

"GreenFields has agreed a ten year contract with the Ricoh Arena, but Ben comments that there is no reason why the XtraGrass carpet should not last more than ten years if well cared for" Whether you take this at face value or not I think it highlights part of the issue that is the pitch just...

To be fair he also said we received 'significant' bids in the previous window and that we spent a 'significant' amount on Josh Reid last January. I like Dave but I really wouldn't read too much into it as his definition of significant/substantial clearly differs to everyone else's.

You can't really count Chaplin anyway as I think luck had a lot to do with money being made on his sale. Again, isn't really synonymous with a carefully thought out strategic model.

I'm not saying I know more than Dave Boddy, I've said I disagree with his view that we follow the Brentford model. We may well aspire to follow it but that's quite a bit different than actually following it. Over the past 5 years look at how much they've invested and re-invested into players...

Regardless of what he said we don't. Finding young players to sell on for profit isn't a model invented by Brentford. I don't really get what's so difficult to understand about that. We aspire to find young promising players to sell on for profit where we can but the bulk of our recruitment is...

We won't be able to bring in the best young talent in L1/L2. Those markets are now being more actively pursued by Championship clubs, meaning we'd struggle to compete as even if we matched a transfer fee we'd almost certainly be beaten to the signing due to wages offered. Equally the demanded...

Brentford's model is primarily based on investing significantly into prized young talent from both home soil and aboard in order to re-sell for maximum value. We don't do that. We try and recruit young talent where possible granted, with the end goal of making a significant profit on them, but...

Always liked Mpanzu as well. Bit of a flair player and one of those who on their day can pose as a real threat.

What manager with the budget Robins has will get it right every single time? Guardiola and his backroom staff don't even get it right every time and they have one of the biggest budgets in the world at their disposal. There's bound to be mishaps and errors when a significant percentage of our...

We didn't pay a fee did we? We effectively just took over his contract?

To be fair though Gyokeres is the same. Not a fan of Waghorn at all either, but it's not just him that's wasteful in front of goal. We need to be far more clinical across the board.

And I'm baffled as to why you still post on this forum. You might as well give him time as he's here to stay. No point regurgitating the same mindless nonsense as despite what you seem to think you're not making any intelligent observations.

He's not really a rookie? He's 24 in the summer.