{"id":40203,"date":"2020-09-01T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T01:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=40203"},"modified":"2020-09-01T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T01:27:16","slug":"brentfords-difficulties-at-securing-attacking-target-ghoddos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2020\/09\/01\/brentfords-difficulties-at-securing-attacking-target-ghoddos\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford&#8217;s difficulties at securing attacking target Ghoddos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Football League World &#8211; BRENTFORD, <strong>Brentford appears to be looking elsewhere after struggling to agree on a fee with Amiens for forward Saman Ghoddos.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure to win promotion to the Premier League has left the Bees in a difficult position when it comes to retaining their best players from last season, with top scorer Ollie Watkins and the talented Said Benrahma attracting a lot of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With their departures feeling inevitable at some point, the Londoners are looking to secure replacements before sanctioning their sale and they welcomed Ivan Toney to the club yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, further additions will be needed and it had been suggested that Ghoddos could join from the Ligue 2 outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That seems unlikely now though,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsLyall\/status\/1300367230761340928\">with Sky Sports reporter Lyall Thomas revealing<\/a>&nbsp;that Brentford have failed to agree a deal with Amiens and he also confirmed that they have an interest&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsLyall\/status\/1300377834146365440\">in German forward Robin Hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, that could change in the coming weeks, particularly if Watkins and Benrahma bring in big fees but it appears nothing is imminent with Ghoddos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a shame for Brentford fans as Ghoddos is a player that has been tracked by the club for some time and he clearly has a lot of ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the recruitment team have to be trusted given their record and they will have a valuation of a player that they won\u2019t go above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, if an agreement can\u2019t be reached with Amiens it\u2019s simply a case of moving on and identifying another target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football League World &#8211; BRENTFORD, Brentford appears to be looking elsewhere after struggling to agree&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":40204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,89,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-c16-iranian-legionairs","category-c22-players-spotlight"],"views":925,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40205,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40203\/revisions\/40205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}