When we pull out some random superstar!

[Vegasblade1]

I think if we start doing a Brentford and turning frees and cheap players into superstars we might just eat our words with this AI....hopefully

 

[Cheesebored]

A recurring dream i used to have about Beyonce 12 years ago.

 

[Loco Blade]

Spot on Vegas . We will never have a million corporate boxes or a blue chip / nation state sponsor . I can never get my head around how Bournemouth compete with 11k ground capacity but hold on ! That’s how they and any other team beginning with B does it !! ( B - lades )

 

[Nick Jansky]

I think if we start doing a Brentford and turning frees and cheap players into superstars we might just eat our words with this AI....hopefully

A few on here would certainly need to, and some of them would be big enough to do it. But it’s not a short game and it’s in it’s infancy, let’s wait & see how it develops.

 

[robbiez666]

Who are these free transfers Brentford turned into superstars?

They've done a great job but it took them several years until they finally got it right. They spend money but kept selling at a profit. Are our fans accepting not getting promoted for 3 years?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Can we get mcburnie back tho?

 

[dexter101]

Just seen a rumour that souza is off to wolfsburg for £13m.

I just keep putting that into the context of Tom Cannon, so a vini souza, buys you 1.3 Tom Cannons...

 

[FINUK]

If I ever wanted to do a Brentford I would take up crack



Or be a pig

 

[Vegasblade1]

Who are these free transfers Brentford turned into superstars?

They've done a great job but it took them several years until they finally got it right. They spend money but kept selling at a profit. Are our fans accepting not getting promoted for 3 years?

Frees and cheap i said and we're already one year down of the three!
I do class last year as one of the years because we're already signing quality AI players but Wilder was hand picking them....
Burrows Cooper etc I tell you another thing Villa go down that season and Wilder signs Watkins and Cash etc and we would still be up there I reckon.
Even Brewster was a supposed quality signing and really should have been but Wilder couldn't foresee his injury nightmares

 

[Tony_Kaufman]

Who are these free transfers Brentford turned into superstars?

They've done a great job but it took them several years until they finally got it right. They spend money but kept selling at a profit. Are our fans accepting not getting promoted for 3 years?

Ollie Watkins (£1.8mil), Neal Maupay (£1.6mil), and Ivan Toney (£5mil) for starters. They might not have been free but they picked them up for cheap, developed and improved them and sold them on for significant profits.

 

[robbiez666]

Ollie Watkins (£1.8mil), Neal Maupay (£1.6mil), and Ivan Toney (£5mil) for starters. They might not have been free but they picked them up for cheap, developed and improved them and sold them on for significant profits.

But they all cost money and not free though. It's not a magic wand. £5 million is not cheap for a Championship side back then. Nothing over a million was. We paid for Cooper and Burrows. Neither were cheap.

 

[100% part time blade]

But they all cost money and not free though. It's not a magic wand. £5 million is not cheap for a Championship side back then. Nothing over a million was. We paid for Cooper and Burrows. Neither were cheap.

Toney was £10 million after add-one wasn’t he?
Still cheap if you sell him for £40 million of course.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

But they all cost money and not free though. It's not a magic wand. £5 million is not cheap for a Championship side back then. Nothing over a million was. We paid for Cooper and Burrows. Neither were cheap.

Silly statement, for the level they’re both at now which most knew they would be able to get to and beyond- both were almost guaranteed successes. Both fees were very cheap really.

 

[Sithblade]

Toney was £10 million after add-one wasn’t he?
Still cheap if you sell him for £40 million of course.

Half a Brewster, Toney seemed to have been in the lower leagues for a while, was he at Northampton the same time as Wilder?
Maybe the jump from League one to PL might have been too much and he benefitted from a year in the Championship.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

Who are these free transfers Brentford turned into superstars?

They've done a great job but it took them several years until they finally got it right. They spend money but kept selling at a profit. Are our fans accepting not getting promoted for 3 years?

We fucked up the selling part but Ndiaye was a free...

 

[KoppedOff]

Half a Brewster, Toney seemed to have been in the lower leagues for a while, was he at Northampton the same time as Wilder?
Maybe the jump from League one to PL might have been too much and he benefitted from a year in the Championship.

Toney was there to start and I think was with Wilder as you say for a bit, but then got snapped up by Newcastle and was on their books for years. But he did a load of loans out in lower league from them with Barnsley, Shrewsbury, Scunthorpe etc before he ended up permanently at Peterborough. Then Brentford signed him in the Championship.

 

[SwissBlade]

We fucked up the selling part but Ndiaye was a free...

And made a huge profit upon selling him

 

[Nick Jansky]

Silly statement, for the level they’re both at now which most knew they would be able to get to and beyond- both were almost guaranteed successes. Both fees were very cheap really.

If you haven’t got the money to pay the fees & wages, cheap or otherwise, it all becomes academic.