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BEES HAVE LOST STING

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BRENTFORD haven’t started brilliantly, but you have to remember that they lost the spine of their team.
Neal Maupay went to Brighton. Romaine Sawyers to West Brom. Ezri Konsa to Aston Villa. Dan Bentley, the keeper, joined Bristol City.
Their business model is to buy potential and sell it on for a profit, so it’s inevitable that you will lose your best players.
The problem with that system is that they won’t replace likefor- like. So having lost a proven scorer in Maupay, they won’t spend that money on a readymade replacement. They look a bit toothless and I think th...

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