The League Paper

UPBEAT SMITH’S AIMING FOR TOP

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The LeaguePaper Team
25 February 2018

By Tom Blackett
CHAMPIONSHIP

AMBITIOUS: Dean Smith

BRENTFORD manager Dean Smith expressed his delighted at signing an extended deal – and immediately set his sights on the Premier League.
Smith and his assistants Richard O’Kelly and Thomas Frank have all agreed to stay with the Bees for an additional year, until the end of the 2019-20 season.
The Griffin Park outfit have overcome a slow start to the season to put themselves in with a shout of the play-offs.
Former Walsall boss Smith, who joined the Bees in late 2015, said: “We feel that the club is progressing and we ar...

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