Brentford- the club to emulate

[indeedido]

I wonder what the reaction would be if we got to the play off final and lost and then sold Dael Fry and Paddy McNair.
Or take it back a few years and Brentford lose to Middlesbrough in the play offs the highest finish since WWII and they immediately part company with manager Mark Warburton - in fact win or lose he is going after the play offs. Is it nine times they have failed to win a play off.
I think they are fantastically well run club but I don't think Boro fans would put up with a model of selling every couple of seasons. Just look at how every time Patrick Bamford scores people react with anger. Pulis says he sold the only assets anyone wanted to buy to keep the club on a level.
As Neil Warnock points out it was hard cash (£10m) not algorithms that bought Ivan Toney. Players like Ollie Watkins were also scouted before they brought in a money ball system as The Bees had a fantastic scouting network for years. Dedicated scouts who worked with inner city youngsters but they were always up against it getting talented youngsters like Stirling stolen from under their noses by big clubs who can hoover up talent.

Hard cash also bought Assombolonga, Saville et al.
Boro fans would be more patient if there had been a track record of excellent recruitment following sales. There has been the exact opposite.
I don't think many people would have been disappointed to see pulis leave after our pathetic play off defeat by the way.

Boro are a much bigger club than Brentford, which brings pressures, but it is almost impossible not to concede that Brentford have done extremely well relatively. I really don't see why people are belittling them.
Bournemouth's growth is very different and is as people have wrongly described Brentford's.
Bournemouth bought with money they hadn't generated (revenue or player sales), paid big fees and wages way beyond their income, flouted FFP but got promoted just in time and escaped appropriate punishment.
Brentford are likely to go up fairly and justly and I will applaud them all the more for it.

Both are much smaller clubs than Boro with much smaller foundations and potential.

 

[TheWolfman]

What have Brentford achieved in the last 5 years? They have all these wonderful players, great managers and play lovely football, bigger bottlers than derby!! They basically sell their best players who have failed to get them promoted. As people say above they are the new flavour of the month, sure it was southampton before and then bournemouth!

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

No one ever says emulate Burnley.

 

[festa5]

Did not agree with much if that. It's easy to select a team doing well at the moment. Why not choose Sunderland?

Our chairman has made mistakes, Sir Alex could not pick a goalkeeper, you would have sacked him.

Basic reading comprehension really isn't a strong point for you is it?

 

[JackG]

Hard cash also bought Assombolonga, Saville et al.
Boro fans would be more patient if there had been a track record of excellent recruitment following sales. There has been the exact opposite.
I don't think many people would have been disappointed to see pulis leave after our pathetic play off defeat by the way.

Boro are a much bigger club than Brentford, which brings pressures, but it is almost impossible not to concede that Brentford have done extremely well relatively. I really don't see why people are belittling them.
Bournemouth's growth is very different and is as people have wrongly described Brentford's.
Bournemouth bought with money they hadn't generated (revenue or player sales), paid big fees and wages way beyond their income, flouted FFP but got promoted just in time and escaped appropriate punishment.
Brentford are likely to go up fairly and justly and I will applaud them all the more for it.

Both are much smaller clubs than Boro with much smaller foundations and potential.

Not sure about the potential. They're both in prosperous areas that are on the way up.

 

[HolgateCorner]

No one ever says emulate Burnley.

One man club - Sean Dyche.

 

[Frozen Horse]

Am I going mad here. Nobody is saying become Brentford down to every league finish, play off place, or future outlook, Stadium size etc.

People are saying emulate how Brentford have approached recruitment and integrating players into an attacking system and philosophy that is maintained through the club as the managers come and go, selling when you have to so you can continue to build.

I'm not sure whether you are referring to my comments or not. However, I'd say Brentford's patient approach and willingness to sell their best players have been key factors in that club growing to where they are now.

They have had a clearly strategy, and I don't think we can cherry-pick the bits we like and throw away the bits we don't like and expect the results to be the same.

 

[indeedido]

Not sure about the potential. They're both in prosperous areas that are on the way up.

You may have a point Jack.
That is especially true of Bournemouth in fairness, but they have a a very small fanbase, no local belief and difficulty in building a bigger stadium.
Brentford have a lot of people around them, but an awful lot of competition too. Chelsea, QPR, Fulham as well as the big two north of the river who draw from everywhere. They are more Wimbledon than anything else (obviously not in playing style)