No news isn’t, necessarily, good news. Transfer update

Visitors to the Brentford website on Monday would be forgiven for thinking they had déjà vu.

The phrase, “Following the completion of his loan spell at” cropped up three times, with the news that Ben Nugent has returned to Cardiff City (Ole Gunnar Solksjaer making an immediate impact?) whilst Aaron Pierre and Josh Clarke are now back in the Brentford fold.

However, the three names we have been most interested in remained conspicuous by their absence.

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More loan action for Brentford…and our rivals?

With the  transfer window now officially open, the rumour mill is in full effect.

In the case of Brentford, for once the talk is about players coming in rather than those who could be snapped up by teams in the Premiership or Championship. So far.

Top of the list is Arsenal striker Chuba Akpom. Whilst the club is yet to say anything definitive this is being widely reported in various media sources. Even Matthew Benham, as he has also done with Blackburn winger Alan Judge, has now started to follow the Arsenal youngster on twitter.

To read the rest of this article, season 2013/14 is now available to download onto Kindle, in full. Containing previously unseen content, you can do so here for less than the cost of one matchday programme.

 Thanks for reading over the course of the campaign. For now I need to make space on this page for any follow up.  The ‘close season’ / World Cup columns continue in full, further on in this site.