Please everyone

Quoted from Donny boy

What you waiting for, come and get him, Omar has been told to think of his future as it aint here.

Look if it were up to me i'd come pick him up myself. The question is, would he drop to NL and accept a paycut? The answer is (unfortunately) probably not. I hope with all my heart we are in for him and the stars align. But my head tells me that its never going to happen. If he's in the ground for your next home game, sing 'Maaaaariners'  

Quoted from Maringer

Don't forget that Brentford have an extremely wealthy owner who has been pumping money in for some years to get the new ground and win promotion. They'll cash in now they got into the Premier League (providing they don't overspend) but it has  reputedly taken an investment of £100 million to get there which isn't exactly chicken feed.

Also been very good in the transfer market - listed below are Brentford's top 10 transfers

CF Ollie Watkins sold to Aston Villa 20/21 for £30.6m  bought from Exeter 17/18 for £6.5m profit £24.1m
LW Said Benrahma sold to West Ham 20/21 for £20.79m + £3.96m loan fee bought from OGC Nice 18/19 for £1.53m profit £23.22m
CF Neal Maupay sold to Brighton 19/20 for £20m bought from Saint Etienne 17/18 for £1.8m profit £18.2m
CD Chris Mepham sold to Bournemouth 18/19 for £12.24m Brentford U18 14/15 profit £12.24m
CD Ezri Konsa sold to Aston Villa 19/20 for £11.97m bought from Charlton 18/19 for £2.57m profit £9.4m
CF Andre Gray sold to Burnley 15/16 for £11.16m bought from Luton 14/15 for £558th profit £10.602m
CF Scott Hogan sold to Aston Villa 16/17 for £9.45m from Rochdale 14/15 for £855th profit £8.595m
DM Ryan Woods sold to Stoke 18/19 for £6.53 bought from Shrewsbury 15/16 for £1.22m profit £5.31m
RW Jota Peleterio sold to Birmingham 17/18 for £5.85m bought from Celta de Vigo for £1.35 million profit £4.5m
DM Nico Yennaris sold to BJ Guoan 18/19 for £4.95m bought from Arsenal 13/14 for £90th profit £4.05m

Profit form the above £120.217m

With the right business model = Premiership football and a new stadium

With the wrong business model = National league and the oldest staduim

That’s phenomenal business

Quoted from KingstonMariner

That’s phenomenal business

To be honest I quite liked it when we paid actual money for Adi Yusuff, Chris Clements, Jamey Osborne, Akwasi Asante and Sam Jones and then apparently couldn’t get rid of them for free fast enough. There’s so much wrong with that last sentence I don’t even know where to begin.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

Also been very good in the transfer market - listed below are Brentford's top 10 transfers

CF Ollie Watkins sold to Aston Villa 20/21 for £30.6m  bought from Exeter 17/18 for £6.5m profit £24.1m
LW Said Benrahma sold to West Ham 20/21 for £20.79m + £3.96m loan fee bought from OGC Nice 18/19 for £1.53m profit £23.22m
CF Neal Maupay sold to Brighton 19/20 for £20m bought from Saint Etienne 17/18 for £1.8m profit £18.2m
CD Chris Mepham sold to Bournemouth 18/19 for £12.24m Brentford U18 14/15 profit £12.24m
CD Ezri Konsa sold to Aston Villa 19/20 for £11.97m bought from Charlton 18/19 for £2.57m profit £9.4m
CF Andre Gray sold to Burnley 15/16 for £11.16m bought from Luton 14/15 for £558th profit £10.602m
CF Scott Hogan sold to Aston Villa 16/17 for £9.45m from Rochdale 14/15 for £855th profit £8.595m
DM Ryan Woods sold to Stoke 18/19 for £6.53 bought from Shrewsbury 15/16 for £1.22m profit £5.31m
RW Jota Peleterio sold to Birmingham 17/18 for £5.85m bought from Celta de Vigo for £1.35 million profit £4.5m
DM Nico Yennaris sold to BJ Guoan 18/19 for £4.95m bought from Arsenal 13/14 for £90th profit £4.05m

Profit form the above £120.217m

With the right business model = Premiership football and a new stadium

With the wrong business model = National league and the oldest staduim

I'm assuming there are some failures too but with £120m of profit, you can afford a few failures I guess.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

I'm assuming there are some failures too but with £120m of profit, you can afford a few failures I guess.

I was thinking that, then thought a bit more. That’s just the top ten and number 10 was a £4m profit, so there’s quite a way to go before they ‘only’ break even.

Quoted from Poojah

To be honest I quite liked it when we paid actual money for Adi Yusuff, Chris Clements, Jamey Osborne, Akwasi Asante and Sam Jones and then apparently couldn’t get rid of them for free fast enough. There’s so much wrong with that last sentence I don’t even know where to begin.

Agree. Bonkers wasn’t it. Jones and Osborne had talent. Clements could do a job. Didn’t see the other two much.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Agree. Bonkers wasn’t it. Jones and Osborne had talent. Clements could do a job. Didn’t see the other two much.

Not quite sure what happened to Sam Jones once he left us - his Wiki page doesn't make great reading...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Jones_(footballer,_born_1991)

Not the first and probably not the last talented player to fall off the face of the footballing earth after leaving BP. The likes of Scott Neilson and Dominic Vose spring to mind in recent memory, but I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Being binned by a basket-case club (as we were in the Fenty era) might be the thing that kills your motivation to be a footballer.

Of course, you have to have the £500k in the first place to invest to accumulate, taking the lowest value acquisition in that Brentford list, apart from the youth lad. London Irish are sharing the stadium as well which helps with running costs. Some of those overseas players will have been attracted by going to London. We had bigger crowds than Brentford, Fulham, Millwall and Charlton in 1980 but football is much more South East orientated now - the big northern clubs outside of Manchester and Liverpool struggle to compete - Sunderland, Stoke, Middlesborough, Wednesday...Burnley have done well to hang in there but are an exception now. Even at the lower end we've got wanky clubs like Crawley and Stevenage with hardly any fans who can attract better players than us.

Peterborough is more the model for us than Brentford.