Watford To Enter Race for Scott Hogan as West Ham Deal Stalls?

Posted by BillytheBee Grant | Jan 12, 2017 | 3 |

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Following Brentford for 40 years plus now.. write .. blog .. videoblog .. podcast ... photograph ...eat .. sleep .. Brentford.. am known to attend the occasional England match too (16 World Cups and Euro tournaments now plus a couple of Womens Tournaments too) so can take a few knocks ...Run a grassroots girls football club... organised husky dog racing rallies for a living back in the day ... as you do ..You didn’t wanna go up!!

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Rob on January 12, 2017 at 8:54 pm
The saga is getting tedious already! Personally i don’t want him to go but if he has to (inevitably) i hope its soon and we can target 3 or 4 new players. The longer it drags on the better the chance of these targets that we’ve identified going to other clubs…al la Sam Winnall (who’s now alledgedly gone to SWFC on 18k a week for as little as £500k??) He was someone of great interest. Having only bagged 3 goals less than SH. Ive been keeping tabs on the affair and i keep reading that £15m for a player from the championship is crazy, yet as you pointed out Lookman has gone for £11 and he’s only plying his trade in league 1!! I think if a deal is close he won’t play this Sat, but if not then i hope he does, scores another cracker or 2 and doesn’t get injured. That’ll add a couple £m and increase the interest. The thing is IMHO we are unlikely to reach the playoffs this year. SH won’t be around next season. He may well be worth a little more in the summer…he only needs 10 more goals for that, but there is the concern about that knee and will Sergi, Matt Taylor & Ben Stephenson be around to buy in the summer? I’d be surprised if finances would stretch to buying all 3 of those guys without funding it with an out going transfer of some size. We’ve been fair to him, he’s repaid that faith, so he’ll go with a heavy heart but with our blessings and BFC will move on, forward, and a year closer to our LR stadium with a greater depth of squad and hopefully that little bit more quality.
Looking forward to the next pod cast 😉
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Richard on January 12, 2017 at 10:26 pm
If the West Ham pr dept is talking up the transfer why isn’t ours talking up the fact that in addition to his 14 goals he has had 3 dubiously chalked off ?
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Ben on January 13, 2017 at 9:45 am
Richard, that’s quite the most small time thing I’ve heard for a while. Should we include really good saves and shots against the post too?
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