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Brentford

  1. Which Premier League teams have the most players still at Euro 2024?

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    Managers will always outwardly their players on the international stage, but you can be sure one or two will privately be hoping for an early exit from Euro 2024 for a few of their star men.

    International tournament summers disrupt pre-season for managers.

    Various players from different nations return to their clubs at different times, sometimes with injuries, holidays get postponed and rescheduled. As a general rule, the best players are more likely to play for the best nations and therefore go further in international tournaments.

    The Euro 2024 final will take place on 14 July. Over half of Premier League clubs already have a pre-season fixture scheduled within 10 days of that.

    Of English clubs, unsurprisingly, Premier League champions Manchester City have comfortably the most players in the Euro 2024 knockouts. The best represented Premier League side at the start of the competition have a full line-up of 11 stars still in .

    They are followed by the rest of last season's top three - Arsenal and Liverpool - who have eight and seven respectively. Manchester United also have seven while Brentford - aided by their healthy Danish contingent - have six and Crystal Palace five.

    Championship play-off winners Southampton's three representatives were all eliminated at the group stage, while fellow newly promoted side Ipswich have not seen their summer impacted at all by players at Euro 2024.

    Of the Championship-winning Leicester squad, goalkeeper Mads Hermansen and defenders Wout Faes and Jannik Vestergaard remain in - as does Turkey's Yunus Akgun, who spent last season on loan with the Foxes.

    This data was provided by Opta and counts the clubs where players finished at the end of the 2023-24 season.

  3. Brentford interested in Leicester midfielder

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    BBC Sport football news reporter

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    Brentford are reportedly interested in g Leicester City's Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

    The Bees face competition from fellow Premier League clubs Chelsea and Brighton, who are understood to be in talks with the Foxes for the midfielder.

    The Blues have the advantage of being able to offer Dewsbury-Hall the chance to link up again with former Leicester boss Enzo Maresca, after the Italian became Chelsea's new head coach earlier this month.

    The situation is complicated further by Dewsbury-Hall's general reluctance to leave his boyhood club.

    In an interview with BBC Sport this week, Dewsbury-Hall said: "I have been here since I was a kid. I love everything about the club. I grew up and managed to play in the first team. I am happy.

    "I have never said I am actively wanting to leave. That sort of stuff is not up to me. You never know with football - the season is about to start, so we will see."

    The Foxes are in a poor position under the Premier League profit and sustainability rules and it is thought they need to sell the academy graduate to satisfy the regulations.

  5. 'Man fits the bill perfectly' or 'sign nobody' - Your Brentford Euro scouting

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    Dennis Man in action for RomaniaReuters

    We asked for your views on which Euros player would be a good fit for Brentford.

    Here are a few of your suggestions:

    Mark: Sign nobody from a tournament, it's an expensive showcase and Brentford's recruitment model doesn't work that way. Any gs are recruited over long-term performances, background and personality traits. So no, Brentford won't be g anyone based on a handful of matches...

    Cliff: Ferdi Kadioglu, the Turkish left-back, would be ideal as wing-back competition for Rico Henry.

    Chris: Romania's Dennis Man fits the bill perfectly. Young, fast and full of potential.

    Bizzy Bee: We don't sign players in the shop window, we go for lesser-known names with potential sell-on value.

    Anonymous: Sesko - forward thinking, fast-paced forward, creates space and chances.

  6. Which Euros star should Brentford sign?

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    As the Euros group stage comes to a close, how's your scouting report gone?

    Who has caught your eye as a perfect g for Brentford?

    And how would they fit into Thomas Frank's starting XI?

    Give us your suggestions here

  7. Frank has 'put thousands of hours' into his coaching work

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    Former Chelsea and Everton boss Frank Lampard says he has been "influenced" by watching managers like Brentford's Thomas Frank.

    Lampard, 46, has been out of work since his second spell as Chelsea boss - on an interim basis - ended in 2023.

    Frank has impressed during his time in charge of Brentford, securing promotion to the Premier League in 2021 and then establishing them as a top-flight side.

    "I love watching what other managers are doing, the different approaches and because of my connections I've been able to go and watch certain managers work," Lampard told BBC Radio 5 Live.

    "Thomas invited me to Brentford last season and I went and watched how he worked. There are lots of little things that can impress you or little nuggets that you take and think 'oh yeah, I see that'. I think coaching should be about sharing information, you should never be closing and keeping everything to yourself.

    "There aren't any managers who I have ever reached out to who haven't said 'come down, no problem'. When you go down to Thomas, or Pep [Guardiola], different managers, all of them to a man have been like 'come and have a meeting, come and watch training, what do you think about that">