Hypothetical transfers

[KRBFC]

Burnley can achieve promotion to and stay in the Premier League. Please tell me what Brentford have done over the past 7 years? Apart from making a few quid (We’ve made more btw) and play pretty football?

Compared to us you're right, they've progressed nicely though, made a few quid and built foundations to achieve promotion in the near future. I'd like us to implement recruitment like Brentford and pass the ball like they do but there's no doubt we've been more successful than they have in forever.

[Danieljwaterhouse]

Of course I’m gonna make a direct comparison between Burnley and Brentford when a couple of clowns come along and try and tell me how we should be doing what they do. They have in no way whatsoever done better than us in the transfer market over the past 7 years.

How many players have they actually sold that are Premier League regulars over a sustained period? 1. James Tarkowski.

Now look at ours. Trippier, Ings, Keane then there’s Heaton. Players we’ve sold on, players that have all played for England. 3 of those playing in very good sides. There’s also all the other signings that have actually achieved things that Brentford haven’t. Play offs twice? Nice, lost twice as well. We’ve had automatic promotion twice, Champions once. 2 top 10 Premier League finishes.

But yeah, we’ll give up everything and finish in the Top 10 of the Championship year after year selling players making profits that way. Let’s forget about the £4/500m we’ve earned (Directly from our signings btw) for getting to and staying in the Premier League.

This reply should be the end of this debate.

[nyclaret]

Of course I’m gonna make a direct comparison between Burnley and Brentford when a couple of clowns come along and try and tell me how we should be doing what they do. They have in no way whatsoever done better than us in the transfer market over the past 7 years.

How many players have they actually sold that are Premier League regulars over a sustained period? 1. James Tarkowski.

Now look at ours. Trippier, Ings, Keane then there’s Heaton. Players we’ve sold on, players that have all played for England. 3 of those playing in very good sides. There’s also all the other signings that have actually achieved things that Brentford haven’t. Play offs twice? Nice, lost twice as well. We’ve had automatic promotion twice, Champions once. 2 top 10 Premier League finishes.

But yeah, we’ll give up everything and finish in the Top 10 of the Championship year after year selling players making profits that way. Let’s forget about the £4/500m we’ve earned (Directly from our signings btw) for getting to and staying in the Premier League.

There's no denying how good those signings were. The sad reality is those signings were made 5+ years ago now. The standard of our recruitment since then has dropped dramatically, which is ironic given that we're now an 'established' Premier League club.