Brentford Chairman Believes Keeping Scott Hogan is Key To Premier League Challenge
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I would hope, if any players are reading this, that they understand that for every success story there are multiple abject failures and that being a big fish in a small pond is much better than being a stickleback in an ocean. 2 names spring to mind in recent seasons. Simon Moore and James Tarkowski. Simon left for Cardiff who were in the Premiership to be understudy when he would have been No 1 at the Bees. We of course went on to be promoted to the Championship and Cardiff were relegated. He’s now in Lg1. Then Tarkowski, who has done nothing at all at a Burnley side who look frail at the back in the Premiership and who may well end up being loaned out in the January transfer window to a team in our division, or lower. Sometimes that short term big money transfer and wage increase makes less sense if you quickly become surplus to requirements, lose your confidence because of it and end up lower down the leagues
It feels wrong to even be discussing the possibility of SH moving in January, that’s not a criticism here by the way. No doubt there will be plenty of interest if he carries on hitting the target, in the end it will come down to our league position, the player’s wishes, and of course the fee. Kodija is a useful reference in this case, and his £15M move to another championship club has to be the minimum level at which BFC should consider dealing with anyone – if it comes to that.
Personally i’d want SH to do a full season here at least, he can achieve so much whilst at BFC, and can consider options in the summer. I’m not comfortable with us selling our top stars to other championship clubs – particularly those that won’t be candidates for automatic (Bristol, Villa, Wednesday, Fulham, QPR etc).
Our club is growing and it’a fine balance that so far MB & co have managed to get right. The paying punters must not be overlooked in all of this, and if we are challenging GP will be a ram out every week now.
Clearly Judge will be gone in January, i’d hope that we are right in the mix then and not planning to let anyone go. And just to add balance the recruitment has generally been very good and the returns on players impressive. But we do still have several (i’d say 4) expensive signings from last summer to either integrate or move on.
This isn’t the 70’s when we knew all our players and our opponents as well things can change very quickly think back to last season when some people thought dean was doing an awfull job then a great run and he’s fantastic .everybody should keep their feet on the ground and enjoy the ride it’s getting interesting the names may change the shirt remains the same come on you bees crush the quarter pounders !