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Igor Thiago

Igor Thiago

Chipshop Bee said:
As the club, are so squeaky, with balancing the books, my gut says they've already done the Toney deal. The medical experts know, all these ligaments and tendon injuries, don't always heal properly, or permanently, that should be a metric in their planning. Rico, Bryan Kristoff and Josh naturally overexert themselves. We are gonna need that money for contingency. I reckon Ivan and the club know where he's going. On subject, Thiago's vids and profile reminds me of Emille Heskey. So... plenty of tap ins, hold up play, headers and assists, nothing flashy, but all essential, for winning games
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A hybrid of John O'Mara and Neal Maupay then?
 

Igor Thiago

In regards to the ‘twitter talk’ about the link between the failed Nusa deal and this one….

already today I’ve had a couple of colleagues question the timing and cost of the transfer. Now, if this had been another club, who after announcing a failed medical for one player then subsequently bought a team mate for around the same price almost out of the blue, would it rise eyebrows, yes it probably would. Especially when you consider he’s their top scorer and they have play offs coming up so the timing of the announcement is also intriguing.

So even though I reckon it’s all rumour, we are gonna have to expect some will want to be asking questions
 

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Probably way off the mark but could it be that we have bought Thiago with the proviso that we get first call on Nusa going forward at a lower price? The part that someone referenced in MB's clue yesterday about it being 2 hitmen makes me wonder if this is only part of the full deal.
 

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BuzzingBee95 said:
already today I’ve had a couple of colleagues question the timing and cost of the transfer. Now, if this had been another club, who after announcing a failed medical for one player then subsequently bought a team mate for around the same price almost out of the blue, would it rise eyebrows, yes it probably would. Especially when you consider he’s their top scorer and they have play offs coming up so the timing of the announcement is also intriguing.

So even though I reckon it’s all rumour, we are gonna have to expect some will want to be asking questions
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We do things differently which other clubs and their fans and pundits don't understand, it confuses them as it doesn't fit with the norm.

It was really the big football news of the day yesterday but after some perfunctory reporting by SSN following the announcement ( you could tell they were perplexed by the whole signing) it seemed to get dropped for the rest of the day being superseded by issues of real importance like TAA's knee injury ( good news for us on Saturday that) and the latest gossip coming out of Old Trafford as always........

As for the price, strikers go for a premium and if he bags 20 goals for us next season he will be worth twice that the following summer
 

Igor Thiago

BuzzingBee95 said:
In regards to the ‘twitter talk’ about the link between the failed Nusa deal and this one….

already today I’ve had a couple of colleagues question the timing and cost of the transfer. Now, if this had been another club, who after announcing a failed medical for one player then subsequently bought a team mate for around the same price almost out of the blue, would it rise eyebrows, yes it probably would. Especially when you consider he’s their top scorer and they have play offs coming up so the timing of the announcement is also intriguing.

So even though I reckon it’s all rumour, we are gonna have to expect some will want to be asking questions
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What are they going to ask about, we signed one player and not another?
 

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Les Beeavinu said:
Is it being suggested that we are spending over £30m because we backed out of signing a player following a medical?
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On X/Twitter by a local Belgium Journalist, yeah. I cannot see how this can be true, unless the Nusa deal has also been done at a reduced price and there is some sort of risk assessment involved from a third party (bank, insurance, etc.) which means we cannot pay £31m for Nusa - but I doubt such a thing exists.
 

Igor Thiago

I think some Twitter people are really overthinking this deal. Club Brugge may simply have been up for doing this deal after Nusa fell through as they still wanted that sum of money, so now they were open to selling Thiago instead of Nusa.
 

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Invipai said:
I think some Twitter people are really overthinking this deal. Club Brugge may simply have been up for doing this deal after Nusa fell through as they still wanted that sum of money, so now they were open to selling Thiago instead of Nusa.
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Maybe - I mean we clearly haven't burnt any bridges with them following the Nusa deal falling through and they are ultimately getting the same money they would have got if he had signed in January.
 

Igor Thiago

we should have signed the striker from the cercle brugge instead. Brilliantly named Ahoueke Steeve Kevin Denkey, 4 more goals this season too. Giles out
 

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gbems92 said:
we should have signed the striker from the cercle brugge instead. Brilliantly named Ahoueke Steeve Kevin Denkey, 4 more goals this season too. Giles out
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Denkey fever!
 

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gbems92 said:
we should have signed the striker from the cercle brugge instead. Brilliantly named Ahoueke Steeve Kevin Denkey, 4 more goals this season too. Giles out
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They’re completely different types of striker and Thiago is far closer in type to Toney than Denky who’s an excellent player in his own right.
If you’re serious in your Giles out comment you’re acting foolishly. If it’s a joke it’s a really tired old trope.
 

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North London Bee said:
They’re completely different types of striker and Thiago is far closer in type to Toney than Denky who’s an excellent player in his own right.
If you’re serious in your Giles out comment you’re acting foolishly. If it’s a joke it’s a really tired old trope.
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North London Bee said:
They’re completely different types of striker and Thiago is far closer in type to Toney than Denky who’s an excellent player in his own right.
If you’re serious in your Giles out comment you’re acting foolishly. If it’s a joke it’s a really tired old trope.
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have a :whoosh:
 

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Het verhaal achter de (stiekeme) recordtransfer van Igor Thiago: "Zelfs Fabrizio Romano wist dit niet" | sporza

Zelfs de strafste transferexperts waren in snelheid gepakt. Compleet onverwacht kondigde Club Brugge aan dat Igor Thiago (22) in de zomer voor een recordsom naar het Engelse Brentford trekt. Speelde de afgesprongen deal voor Antonio Nusa mee? Of was dit de laatste grote slag van Vincent...
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Plots is de twijfelspits de strafste van Europa: hoe valt de transformatie van Igor Thiago te verklaren? | sporza

Extreme makeover is er niks tegen. Na doelpuntenloze maanden vol twijfels groeide Igor Thiago (22) bij Club Brugge uit tot een garantie op goals. Wat zorgde voor de ommekeer bij de Braziliaanse spits?
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Both articles are from a Belgian sports news site. I’d love to translate it all, but that would take me quite some time. But you can use Deepl, just translated a short bit and it works perfectly.

First article is about how we were after Igor Thiago for quite some time and how this transfer isn’t linked at all to the transfer of Nusa. It was deliberate to catch everyone by surprise, especially because more clubs were showing interest now in Igor Thiago. And Thomas Frank was really convinced to have him as our new striker. Second article is from January of this year and gives an insight in how everything turned out well for Igor Thiago during this season
 

Igor Thiago

Would we have been able to sign him last summer?

(in terms of meeting the points threshold)
 

Igor Thiago

I’m saying it right now.

433 next season with Bryan and Schade either side of Thiago and we’re going to rip the f*** out of the PL next season.

Get your passports ready because there’s a European tour happening in 2025.
 

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birdy67 said:
Some Brentford fans are weird. Genuine question, why does anyone care how much money we've paid for a player? I would understand if we were somehow being asked to fund the purchase, but this is MB and his management team doing what they've done many many times before very successfully. If they announced it was an £80 million purchase I wouldn't question it as it's not my money and they know better than me what they're doing.

How about we are just happy with the fact that we've just bought a player that is clearly very good, without anyone knowing about it, meaning every other Premier League management team are now looking at this transfer and thinking "f***, have we missed another diamond of a player that Brentford will now turn into a world beater?"

Not very long ago we were a league 2 team. We're now punching above our weight in the Premier League, are one of the best managed clubs in the world from a financial point of view, and pretty much every signing we make is done without stress and to ensure that at no point does the selling club have a gun to our heads due to the fact that we've just sold a couple of players and have 100 million quid knocking around.

I'm in awe of our management team and how they conduct their business. We are the envy of a lot of other clubs fans, but for some reason there are Bees fans that still find a reason to complain or question what's happening. It's not your job to do that. You're a supporter, so support the club, STFU about stuff you know nothing about and enjoy another brilliant season in the best league in the world.
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Can we turn this into a photo and add it to the iconic photos thread.
 

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AP’o2 said:
sporza.be

Het verhaal achter de (stiekeme) recordtransfer van Igor Thiago: "Zelfs Fabrizio Romano wist dit niet" | sporza

Zelfs de strafste transferexperts waren in snelheid gepakt. Compleet onverwacht kondigde Club Brugge aan dat Igor Thiago (22) in de zomer voor een recordsom naar het Engelse Brentford trekt. Speelde de afgesprongen deal voor Antonio Nusa mee? Of was dit de laatste grote slag van Vincent...
sporza.be sporza.be

sporza.be

Plots is de twijfelspits de strafste van Europa: hoe valt de transformatie van Igor Thiago te verklaren? | sporza

Extreme makeover is er niks tegen. Na doelpuntenloze maanden vol twijfels groeide Igor Thiago (22) bij Club Brugge uit tot een garantie op goals. Wat zorgde voor de ommekeer bij de Braziliaanse spits?
sporza.be sporza.be

Both articles are from a Belgian sports news site. I’d love to translate it all, but that would take me quite some time. But you can use Deepl, just translated a short bit and it works perfectly.

First article is about how we were after Igor Thiago for quite some time and how this transfer isn’t linked at all to the transfer of Nusa. It was deliberate to catch everyone by surprise, especially because more clubs were showing interest now in Igor Thiago. And Thomas Frank was really convinced to have him as our new striker. Second article is from January of this year and gives an insight in how everything turned out well for Igor Thiago during this season
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A day after the bomb, two Brazilians laugh heartily in the bar of a hotel in Ghent when we confront them with that observation.

Marcelo Beer and Hugo are Igor Thiago's agents. They have been working on their player's record deal for more than a month.

“We like to work in silence,” grins Beer, who has represented Thiago since he was 16 years old.

"Moreover, Brentford really wanted to provide a surprise. It worked out well, didn't it? (laughs) Even Fabrizio Romano didn't know anything about it."

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Igor Thiago

It will take time for him to adapt, both to playing in the premier league and to living in England, never mind London.
 

Igor Thiago

Humblebee said:
It will take time for him to adapt, both to playing in the premier league and to living in England, never mind London.
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Not necessarily he could take like a duck to water and hit the ground running. Hoping that will be the case.
 

Igor Thiago

Article from Thiago agent said we've been tracking him since his move to Bulgaria. So not even related to Nusa deal.

Also that the recruitment team had analysed over 45 games and he hit 33 qualities they were after.

Also boasted about how they kept it silent. So all this Nusa related stuff is complete nonsense.

sportwitness.co.uk

"Worked out well, didn't it?" - Agent delighted they kept big Brentford transfer secret, Thomas Frank impressive in talks

Brentford’s move for Igor Thiago was not a sudden move out of the blue but had long been in the pipeline. That’s according to his agents Marcelo Beer and Hugo, who have revealed their delight at keeping the deal secret. Brentford announced a surprise deal for the Brazilian striker yesterday...
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LingfieldBee said:
Article from Thiago agent said we've been tracking him since his move to Bulgaria. So not even related to Nusa deal.

Also that the recruitment team had analysed over 45 games and he hit 33 qualities they were after.

Also boasted about how they kept it silent. So all this Nusa related stuff is complete nonsense.

sportwitness.co.uk

"Worked out well, didn't it?" - Agent delighted they kept big Brentford transfer secret, Thomas Frank impressive in talks

Brentford’s move for Igor Thiago was not a sudden move out of the blue but had long been in the pipeline. That’s according to his agents Marcelo Beer and Hugo, who have revealed their delight at keeping the deal secret. Brentford announced a surprise deal for the Brazilian striker yesterday...
sportwitness.co.uk sportwitness.co.uk
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Interesting. Thanks for posting that.

Also, reading articles like this on websites laden with advertisements are horrendous - We’re extremely fortunate here.
 

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Chomp said:
Interesting. Thanks for posting that.

Also, reading articles like this on websites laden with advertisements are horrendous - We’re extremely fortunate here.
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Good article, wonder if we needed him to play in Belgium and Europe to get sufficient points to qualify to play in England? No adverts for me, suggest a decent Adblocker?
 

Igor Thiago

The funny thing is, come May, there will be hundreds of people posting how Phil Giles is crap because he hasn’t signed anyone because they will have completely forgotten about this one.

His mate from Bruges will sign and people will whine because we never closed that deal in January.
 

Igor Thiago

LingfieldBee said:
Also boasted about how they kept it silent. So all this Nusa related stuff is complete nonsense.
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Makes me wonder where all the Nusa medical leaks were coming from then if it wasn’t Brugge (and obviously not us).
 

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zuko said:
Makes me wonder where all the Nusa medical leaks were coming from then if it wasn’t Brugge (and obviously not us).
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The Norway national team medic.
 

Igor Thiago

birdy67 said:
Some Brentford fans are weird. Genuine question, why does anyone care how much money we've paid for a player? I would understand if we were somehow being asked to fund the purchase, but this is MB and his management team doing what they've done many many times before very successfully. If they announced it was an £80 million purchase I wouldn't question it as it's not my money and they know better than me what they're doing.

How about we are just happy with the fact that we've just bought a player that is clearly very good, without anyone knowing about it, meaning every other Premier League management team are now looking at this transfer and thinking "f***, have we missed another diamond of a player that Brentford will now turn into a world beater?"

Not very long ago we were a league 2 team. We're now punching above our weight in the Premier League, are one of the best managed clubs in the world from a financial point of view, and pretty much every signing we make is done without stress and to ensure that at no point does the selling club have a gun to our heads due to the fact that we've just sold a couple of players and have 100 million quid knocking around.

I'm in awe of our management team and how they conduct their business. We are the envy of a lot of other clubs fans, but for some reason there are Bees fans that still find a reason to complain or question what's happening. It's not your job to do that. You're a supporter, so support the club, STFU about stuff you know nothing about and enjoy another brilliant season in the best league in the world.
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Completely agree with the sentiment of the post and just enjoying it all, but re: the fee...

It wasn't long ago we witnessed Efan Ekoku as an (alleged!) deadline day signing, Neil Shipperley, Steve Claridge, or being over the moon with £50,000 from the Coca-Cola competition.

As a result, signing 30+ million pounds Brazilian strikers will always get some hearts racing! ?
 

Igor Thiago

I actually don't know what to make of this as, 'it's like watching brazil' has been a standard ironic phrase that made me laugh as a kid and accordingly I have repeated many times. However, it seems I will no longer actually be able to use this phrase about Brentford. GILES OUT*

*(this is a joke)
 
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