KLD Acquires Stewart Donald’s controlling interest in the club.


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This. People expecing him to be confirmed before the window closes so we can sign players yet we have no recruitment team in place.

Last night I was looking back over Brentford's business over the past 5 seasons. They've made over £175M from player sales and they will be 2nd top of the Championship if they win their game in hand (they have games in hand on all the others in the top 6). They just missed out on getting to the prem last season. Its very interesting reading about their approach. Scrapped their academy and went massive into data. There owner is off the scale bright though, a physicist from Oxford University, made his money by using statistics to beat the bookies. Their new stadium looks great too.
 
Last night I was looking back over Brentford's business over the past 5 seasons. They've made over £175M from player sales and they will be 2nd top of the Championship if they win their game in hand (they have games in hand on all the others in the top 6). They just missed out on getting to the prem last season. Its very interesting reading about their approach. Scrapped their academy and went massive into data. There owner is off the scale bright though, a physicist from Oxford University, made his money by using statistics to beat the bookies. Their new stadium looks great too.

I liked Brentford old stadium a pub on all corners 😂
 
Let's hope they are massively better at their jobs than the recent clowns.

What's the craic now Brexit has happened, is it tricky to sign players from Europe now? (lower leagues, B teams obviously given wage restraints)
Brexit pretty much puts an end to that for us and most football league teams.
 
Last night I was looking back over Brentford's business over the past 5 seasons. They've made over £175M from player sales and they will be 2nd top of the Championship if they win their game in hand (they have games in hand on all the others in the top 6). They just missed out on getting to the prem last season. Its very interesting reading about their approach. Scrapped their academy and went massive into data. There owner is off the scale bright though, a physicist from Oxford University, made his money by using statistics to beat the bookies. Their new stadium looks great too.
Aye their recruitment is unbelievable. Seems no matter who they sell they bring in a quality replacement. Us on the other hand 🙈
 
Aye their recruitment is unbelievable. Seems no matter who they sell they bring in a quality replacement. Us on the other hand 🙈

I said on another thread safc are like cavemen compared to the likes of Brentford and Leicester. Just thinking about STID and Donald surrounded by his yes men trying to get the Grigg deal done. f***ing hideous. The same Will Griig that Brentford sold to Wigan for £1.5M, they realised 6 years ago he was shite. They must have thought we've fucked Wigan over big style here. Little did they know that there would be some absolute clown shoes that would take him off Wigan for nearly double that money. Brentford effectively had money out of us too, took John Egan for nowt and sold him to Sheffield Utd for £5M.
 
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I said on another thread safc are like cavemen compared to the likes of Brentford and Leicester. Just thinking about STID and Donald surrounded by his yes men trying to get the Grigg deal done. f***ing hideous. The same Will Griig that Brentford sold Wigan for £1.5M, they realised 6 years ago he was shite. They must have thought we've fucked Wigan over big style here. Little did they know that there would be some absolute clown shoes that would take him off Wigan for nearly double that money. Brentford effectively had money out of us too, took John Egan for nowt and sold him to Sheffield Utd for £5M.

They realised Grigg was shite 6 years ago and sold him to Wigan. He then went on to bang them in for Wigan, got them promoted whilst being their top scorer and averaged just under 1 in 2 for them.
 
Grigg has been our league 1 version of Rodwell, a colossal and shameful waste of money. Wigan had our pants down.

Absolutely. He was not shite 6 years ago before he went to Wigan though.

Wigan will have been delighted with that deal even before they robbed us.
 
Absolutely. He was not shite 6 years ago before he went to Wigan though.

Wigan will have been delighted with that deal even before they robbed us.

Brentford appear to be expert in knowing exactly when to sign and offload a player. They obviously had far better players than Grigg when they let him go. If Wigan had paid us £500k to take him it would have been a shit deal for us.
 
Brentford appear to be expert in knowing exactly when to sign and offload a player. They obviously had far better players than Grigg when they let him go. If Wigan had paid us £500k to take him it would have been a shit deal for us.

Brentford were in the Championship. Grigg is not at that level. He was excellent for Wigan though and definitely not shite.

The fee aside, he has been woeful for us. I wouldn’t have even minded the stupid fee if he had banged them in for us like he did for Wigan.
 
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