Thomas Frank - Head Coach

[Gazza]

Can you show me who’s saying/pretending it didn’t happen?

The only reason Ange was kept on was that he finished 5th the season before and we had the Europa League to win. If we don’t have either/both of those things, he’s gone after Everton or Leicester in January.

Frank doesn’t have those things and has lost to a similar group of relegation candidates. He has no improvement to point to and no past experience to suggest he’s got what this club needs (except maybe getting a team promoted from the Championship.)

Only thing I would add to that is that Frank however did very well in getting Brentford to being a stable premier league club which is an achievement in itself. I think that’s harder to do than winning tin pot trophies in Japan, Australia or Scotland.

 

[billyiddo]

Can you show me who’s saying/pretending it didn’t happen?

The only reason Ange was kept on was that he finished 5th the season before and we had the Europa League to win. If we don’t have either/both of those things, he’s gone after Everton or Leicester in January.

Frank doesn’t have those things and has lost to a similar group of relegation candidates. He has no improvement to point to and no past experience to suggest he’s got what this club needs (except maybe getting a team promoted from the Championship.)

The conversation that was taking place when you joined in? eg Frank didn't join a top 6 team vs He did because we finished 5th two seasons prior.

I'd say that the latter is choosing to ignore a pretty big elephant in the room and is an opinion/point often repeated on here.

 

[Bishop]

Is it, really? How much did we pay for him? 47m? He's 24, so theorically closer to his peak years and yet we sold him for 35m. I'm not his greatest fan, but taking a 12m hit on our top scorer at 24 doesn't strike me as a great piece of business.

Of course, since Frank wasn't going to use him, his value would drop further but that's not 'good business' - it's damage control.

Selling him was always going to be damage control. No one was ever going to pay the £47m we paid, he was just not that calibre of player. If we really wanted to try and get as much of our money back as possible the time to sell him was probably last summer when the top scorer tag and the EL "winner" were more prominent.