Summer Transfer Window 2025 Thread

[Raino85]

Its mentioned above . Fellows and Nuamah deals were agreed in January but we didn't close the deals.
Mentions them along with Doak, Mcatee, Bakayoko as other potential options.

Do a Chelsea & buy them all.

its actually a good example to not get so linear with just one player, once its announced we have a target.
We will all have preferences, but most of all would be happy with any of these signings

 

[caliblue]

Sure, but he’s still in charge of picking and setting up the team in a league where every single game can end up earning or costing you millions. And he’s never done that before.

There's reasons to believe that Brantford know what they are doing. They usually do things better than others.

They have a tradition for manager/coach scouting and a lot of coaches that has been involved at Brentford have moved on to bigger clubs. Arteta has recruited both set piece and goalkeeper coaches from Brentford. Andreas Georgson, once set piece coach at Brentford, moved on to filling similar roles at Arsenal, Southampton and Manchester United before he now joins Thomas Frank as assistent manager at Spurs.

Ten years ago the club hired Thomas Frank as Dean Smith's assistent because they didn't trust Smith to organize a good defense. And when Smith moved to Villa (where never managed to get the team sound defensively) Frank was promoted internally.

It will always be tough to replace Frank. Especially if they lose a few important players this summer. But the idea of giving the responsibility to a man they know and trust who also knows both the club and the players, makes sense. Even if he is likely to fail. Most managers get sacked.

And it has to be said that Andrews isn't only a set piece coach. He filled that position one year and he has coached for a decade.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

Is Brentford employing Andrews from within yet another PSR loophole? Couldn't think of the right thread to ask in and this is an active one.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Is Brentford employing Andrews from within yet another PSR loophole? Couldn't think of the right thread to ask in and this is an active one.

I think financially Brentford are pretty solid.

I just think Andrews is highly rated within the club so they are lumping on him.

 

[Mr Happy]

Sorry, you're wrong.

Noooooooo.

You're wrong and I'm not sorry either !

 

[Mr Happy]

Is Brentford employing Andrews from within yet another PSR loophole? Couldn't think of the right thread to ask in and this is an active one.

How ?

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

I think financially Brentford are pretty solid.

I just think Andrews is highly rated within the club so they are lumping on him.

Just asking because of how much people have said hiring and firing managers has hampered us PSR wise. Not sure of how it works when you employ from within and I'm a curious sort.

How ?

See above.

 

[Mr Happy]

Just asking because of how much people have said hiring and firing managers has hampered us PSR wise. Not sure of how it works when you employ from within and I'm a curious sort.



See above.

Im sure it comes into it. Whether it's a loophole or not not sure. Remember they'll have got compensated quite well from Spurs so can offset that im assuming. Bit of a payrise for Keeeeeeeeeeet but negligible in grand scheme of things so I suppose PSR looks better as a result. However, I think they're well run and not likely to breach.

 

[GlosBlue]

You really lost me there dude.

It's an obscure reference to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines they used in planes. Sorry!

 

[ADM320]

You really lost me there dude.

Rolls-Royce Merlin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Mr Happy]

It's an obscure reference to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines they used in planes. Sorry!

I like obscure. Was thinking Merlin helicopters to be honest but wasn't entirely dialled in.

 

[Lanolin]

Just asking because of how much people have said hiring and firing managers has hampered us PSR wise. Not sure of how it works when you employ from within and I'm a curious sort.



See above.

That's basically just because we've had to pay compensation to the managers and staff we've sacked so it's eaten into our budgets, and in the early Moshiri days we paid out compensation to the clubs we were taking managers from too. Promoting from within is cheaper than paying someone out of their contract elsewhere and so more beneficial from a PSR perspective, but it's not a loophole, just normal economics.

 

[ValBlue]

It's an obscure reference to the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines they use in planes. Sorry!

if it makes you feel any better, I am the child of a man who’s ’specialist subject’ is WW2 artillery (particularly tanks and planes) so I fully understood your reference. The fact that me and my mother can now also identify a Merlin engine just by the noise it makes demonstrates how many times we had to listen to his monologues (but he’s so happy talking about it so we humour his tangents)

Anyway, we signing anyone today

 

[Paul Rideout]

Im sure it comes into it. Whether it's a loophole or not not sure. Remember they'll have got compensated quite well from Spurs so can offset that im assuming. Bit of a payrise for Keeeeeeeeeeet but negligible in grand scheme of things so I suppose PSR looks better as a result. However, I think they're well run and not likely to breach.

Brentford will be doing pretty well out of this from a PSR angle - compo for Frank & you're giving someone their shot at being a PL manager so the wage will be low I would imagine.

If they go down though... not so good lol.

 

[Librarian]

I think financially Brentford are pretty solid.

I just think Andrews is highly rated within the club so they are lumping on him.

Maybe the players like him