Like many Bees, I’ve been studying the Championship League table at length over the past 72-hours, and it certainly makes for exciting viewing when you compare it to the fixture list in coming weeks – and unless the squad gets ravaged this transfer window – there’s some cracking games zooming into view. On top of that, the goal Neal Maupay scored will hopefully spur the player on… getting back on the goal trail was vital for the young French striker.
As every week passed following the ‘gone viral’ miss at Cardiff City it seemed to becoming more of a problem, with some fans having started to give up on the player. If you listen to the Beesotted Pride of West London post Bolton podcast, you’ll hear a OGC Nice fan who had come over from France and was raving about what a talent we have signed.
Neal Maupay may be some way off being the finished article, and he still needs to get fully used to the Championship and settle completely, but there’s great things to come from a player who is clearly full of potential. It is hard sometimes not to be overly critical, we all want players to hit the ground running and keep getting better and better, but we should be comfortable with the ‘Brentford way’ by now – our playing style, our patience and vision, and yes even our selling-for-the-right-price mentality, is geared towards encouraging every player to consistently perform at their best, then enjoy the fruits of their hard work with either an improved deal at Griffin Park, or a mega-bucks move elsewhere.
Neal Maupay will now hopefully go on a bit of a scoring spree, and whether it is him or Lasse Vibe who gets the starting nod… or perhaps if Marcondes who gets his chance up top, we will have strikers who are all contributing in the net-bulging department again.
If we are to mount a serious play-off challenge then we’re going to need everyone chipping in with goals.
Dave Lane
@beesotted100
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