Thomas Frank Interview: Brentford head coach discusses the chase of bees for Europe, Bryan Mbumo Future and Summer Transfer Windows | Football messages

Thomas Frank steps into the room after completing a meeting with his coaching staff, analysts and the club’s performance director, Ben Ryan. The topic of the meeting was to discuss the next season, even though there is a lot to play.

“I invited everyone to look back a little in the season,” he says Sky Sport. “We looked at the good parts of what we did this season and then started how we can improve.

“I know we have five games, so I know that this season can be good. It can be very good. It can be extraordinary.”

After a difficult weekend, Brentford is an outsider for a European finish, although they didn’t play. If the eighth or ninth could be enough for the Continental Football next season, they would have been damaged by late victories for Fulham and Brighton, as well as Kristall Palace, which the FA Cup finals reached.

It means the trip to Nottingham Forest on Thursday, Live on Sky SportsIt’s pretty much a must if Brentford is to stay in the race for Europe. “We have to achieve a result there,” says Brentford’s boss.

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“It’s definitely a good season, no matter what, of course it would be a bit flat if we lose the last five! But we won’t do it. I’m pretty sure!”

The bees travel to a forest team that undertakes the season of their lives, despite a recent result of the results. Should Nuno Espirito win Santo’s team, they will climb back to third place – which is far from their situation last season.

The competition on Thursday on the City Ground lies between the teams, which took 16th and 17th place in the Premier League last season. Brentford landed seven points in front of the team, which were promoted into top escape in 2021 a year after their own play-off success.

Forest has much more in her corner than Brentford – a huge fan base, a legacy and a call in the history of the profit of European trophies under Brian Clough. But is there a reason why Brentford cannot reproduce what forest is currently doing in the near future?

“No,” says the club’s head coach. “But I think you can only do that for one season.

“It is difficult. Do you want to be a European club, but what is a European club? Is that every year? If so, it depends on the size of the club where the budget should be quite connected to it.

“The good for us is culture, strategy, hard work, clear principles and playing style – all the things we do pretty well. It can increase your level – and it has increased our level.

“But I think we can have a top season. Then there will be others in which it will be good -but not enough to push into this top European company.”

One of Frank’s key mantras is the need to add shifts every season. “No matter what,” he says. You hear that the Danish trainer says this sentence a lot in the course of the season. “It is difficult to get from A to B, it must be a process.

“We added shifts in three of the four seasons in the Premier League. In season third we could have done it, but the injuries hindered us.”

And these layers are clear on the pitch. First, Frank made a shift this season to only play four. “I was bored to play five backs,” he says.

However, there are also individual signs that layers are added, not just the collective growth. It has not been unnoticed how new Brentford players slowly start to become in shape.

Keane Lewis-Potter’s 20 million pound change from Hull was initially classified as a waste of money, but he is now flourishing to the left-back, even if Rico Henry is fit again. Kevin Schade is a much better player than when he arrived two years ago, while Nathan Collins had a faulty debut campaign last season, but now the first name is on the team leaf.

“Two things are very important,” says Frank about this trend. “We are patient what a word is that you can’t say too much in football.

“They work with people, they are not robots. They have to feel confident, trustworthy and all of this. Of course they have to appear, but this patience is the key.

“We bought these players for a certain reason – because they are good enough and showed that and more.

“And the other is that we are really good at developing players!”

Who is next on the list? Frank branded Igor Thiago, Fabio Carvalho and B team player Yehor Yarmoliuk next. “The next three could be lined to give me the headache. This is the worst part of this job, I can only select 11!”

But it is a future success to keep the best stars, especially Bryan Mbumo, who scored 18 goals from the Premier League this season. “And count,” says Frank.

Brentford is not averse to selling top talents with David Raya and Toney in recent years – but there is a difference to Mbumo. The bees had already signed Mark Flekken before Raya’s departure to Arsenal, while Toney was not in the team when he ran to Saudi Arabia, with Yoane Wissa an inner soft examper.

“I am the head coach, I want my best players to stay forever,” says Frank. “I know that Bryan is very happy to be here in Brentford. He flourishes, is doing well and plays fantastic. What happens in the future? I don’t know.

“I have often said: we are a sales club. But at the same time we have to strengthen that there are 10 clubs in the world that do not sell clubs.

“Well, if the right price – and that is expensive – comes, I am sure that the club will be open. But I am very happy that he is here, and I am convinced that Bryan will still be happy here to play football here.”

But is there a point in the next seasons where that could change? “There could be,” replied Frank. Finally, Brighton, who sold hundreds of hundreds of talents worth hundreds of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds, decided to Chelsea last summer – and invested almost £ 200 million in summer obligations.

“We are only a few years behind Brighton. About four years in this development if we would take it as an example,” says Frank.

“In the past, there were definitely situations in which we said no when clubs tapped our door.

“I assume that this will be the same in the future, where we say: No, we do not sell, we want to keep the players and develop the team further, or it is not the right time for the player to go about something else.

“We are in a fantastic time in the history of Brentford, I am sure that the fans enjoy it and I definitely enjoy it. And I think we can push more, so we should do that.”

There are signs that Brentford was once again firm this summer, since Mbumo is not the only player who is connected to a summer exit.

Forest made an offer for Mbumo’s crime -wissa partner during the transfer window in January, while the interest in Schade of Borussia Dortmund was. Both say could be resumed in summer.

In the meantime, reports from Germany have associated the goalkeeper Flekken with a move to Bayer Leverkusen, while the form of Mikkel Damsgaard, who has 10 assists his name, has the same balance as Bruno Fernandes and one more than Cole Palmer – could arouse interest.

“If we sell players, I expect very few,” says Frank.

“This is a group in which some of these players have been together for some time, but there were also changes that I also think is good and healthy.

“I expect more or less the same squad for the next season.”

Watch Nottingham Forest against Brentford on Thursday evening from 7 p.m. on Sky Sports. Kick -off 7:30 p.m.