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Brentford announce new manager!
Late last week it was announced that Championship team Brentford would look to Italy for help as they hired Juventus manager on a short term caretaker role to help the club steer itself away from the potential of relegation into League One.
The club have been without a manager for the last couple of weeks after former Barnsley & Newcastle Town manager Marcus Hawksworth left the club after just over 1 season in charge at the club and they sit 19th in the Championship table with just Ipswich Town beneath them as they've recorded just 2 wins from their first 11 games this season.
Last season saw the club finish in a disappointing 13th place after just 11 wins and 14 draws and things have only gone downhill since then.
From a lack of funds, to no investment in the stadium or academy, the future of the club doesn't look bright at the moment but if there's 1 man who can come in and shake things up at the club it's certainly the Juventus head coach Andy Banks.
Banks has a rich history of turning teams around through various different methods but looking at Brentford, he may have his work cut out for him.
Today we take a deep dive into the club that is Brentford to assess where the club goes from here. Obviously the goal for Banks short term is to guide the team away from the trap door at the bottom of the league and to make the club more financially stable and attractive to any onlooking unemployed managers.
First of all, let's look at the financial side of things. With a little over £21,000,000 in the bank, Brentford aren't blessed with a lot f money in order to make changes and then you add that to the club's low capacity at just 35,000 then the club can't generate enough money to make a difference in the financial department.
This all leads to the inability to invest into the club's youth academy and therefore the club are stuck with the players that were signed up when the academy was launched.
Considering that the Brentford academy isn't exactly turning heads, this isn't a viable option for the club to look to in the future and investment WAS needed this pre season, however with no funds available the club just couldn't do it. The stand out players within the academy are 19 year old goalkeeper C_Kameni 18 year old striker M_Petric but will they ever make it into the first team? Only time will tell.
Back to this season and 2 wins from 12 games have put Brentford into a tough position with the club unfortunately having the worst defensive record in the league which is no surprise as this is the club's weakest area but hopefully Banks can turn things around once he's settled in at the club.
We managed to speak to the Brentford caretaker manager, Andy Banks, to get his thoughts on the set up at the club and it's future:
"The club are in a tough spot that's for sure. Hawksworth has previously done really well with clubs but he's allowed Brentford to rot away into next to nothing. The squad is far too big, and far away from the quality that it needs to be. As for the financial side of things, it's somehow even worse. Little to no funds available and with the stadium being so small, we have next to no revenue coming in. The lads are 1 step away from doing sponsored walks and car washes.
The academy is another area of the club that has been allowed to rot away and we don't have too many hopes for the players in there but we may be wrong.
We have a lot of work to do to get the squad where it needs to be but with defenders like O_Marcos who will retire soon, we are facing a uphill battle. If we can shrink the squad down to what we need it to be and improve the quality of the back line then there's no reason why we can't storm up the league but when you look at the quality in some teams like Wolverhampton Wanderers and Stockport County, we're miles away from that so we'll have to be content with building slowly.
Our goals right now are simple, sort the stability of the club out, financially.
We need to sort the squad out also to become more competitive and then we can look to build on that in terms of results. For now we just need to stop losing games and start playing the way we know we can do and then it'll all come together.
We know there are upcoming spot auctions and it's something we may look to use in the future but for now it's not even on the cards due to the funds needed to take part.
We host Norwich City tonight, a club that I was a part of at the start of the season so it'll be nice to see some of the lads again and hopefully we'll get a good result"
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Late last week it was announced that Championship team Brentford would look to Italy for help as they hired Juventus manager on a short term caretaker role to help the club steer itself away from the potential of relegation into League One.
The club have been without a manager for the last couple of weeks after former Barnsley & Newcastle Town manager Marcus Hawksworth left the club after just over 1 season in charge at the club and they sit 19th in the Championship table with just Ipswich Town beneath them as they've recorded just 2 wins from their first 11 games this season.
Last season saw the club finish in a disappointing 13th place after just 11 wins and 14 draws and things have only gone downhill since then.
From a lack of funds, to no investment in the stadium or academy, the future of the club doesn't look bright at the moment but if there's 1 man who can come in and shake things up at the club it's certainly the Juventus head coach Andy Banks.
Banks has a rich history of turning teams around through various different methods but looking at Brentford, he may have his work cut out for him.
Today we take a deep dive into the club that is Brentford to assess where the club goes from here. Obviously the goal for Banks short term is to guide the team away from the trap door at the bottom of the league and to make the club more financially stable and attractive to any onlooking unemployed managers.
First of all, let's look at the financial side of things. With a little over £21,000,000 in the bank, Brentford aren't blessed with a lot f money in order to make changes and then you add that to the club's low capacity at just 35,000 then the club can't generate enough money to make a difference in the financial department.
This all leads to the inability to invest into the club's youth academy and therefore the club are stuck with the players that were signed up when the academy was launched.
Considering that the Brentford academy isn't exactly turning heads, this isn't a viable option for the club to look to in the future and investment WAS needed this pre season, however with no funds available the club just couldn't do it. The stand out players within the academy are 19 year old goalkeeper C_Kameni 18 year old striker M_Petric but will they ever make it into the first team? Only time will tell.
Back to this season and 2 wins from 12 games have put Brentford into a tough position with the club unfortunately having the worst defensive record in the league which is no surprise as this is the club's weakest area but hopefully Banks can turn things around once he's settled in at the club.
We managed to speak to the Brentford caretaker manager, Andy Banks, to get his thoughts on the set up at the club and it's future:
"The club are in a tough spot that's for sure. Hawksworth has previously done really well with clubs but he's allowed Brentford to rot away into next to nothing. The squad is far too big, and far away from the quality that it needs to be. As for the financial side of things, it's somehow even worse. Little to no funds available and with the stadium being so small, we have next to no revenue coming in. The lads are 1 step away from doing sponsored walks and car washes.
The academy is another area of the club that has been allowed to rot away and we don't have too many hopes for the players in there but we may be wrong.
We have a lot of work to do to get the squad where it needs to be but with defenders like O_Marcos who will retire soon, we are facing a uphill battle. If we can shrink the squad down to what we need it to be and improve the quality of the back line then there's no reason why we can't storm up the league but when you look at the quality in some teams like Wolverhampton Wanderers and Stockport County, we're miles away from that so we'll have to be content with building slowly.
Our goals right now are simple, sort the stability of the club out, financially.
We need to sort the squad out also to become more competitive and then we can look to build on that in terms of results. For now we just need to stop losing games and start playing the way we know we can do and then it'll all come together.
We know there are upcoming spot auctions and it's something we may look to use in the future but for now it's not even on the cards due to the funds needed to take part.
We host Norwich City tonight, a club that I was a part of at the start of the season so it'll be nice to see some of the lads again and hopefully we'll get a good result"
862/2000 words