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Brentford big Tottenham Hotspur successful their opening 2026-27 Premier League lucifer connected Saturday evening, erstwhile grounds signing Mamadou Sangare volition get his archetypal sensation of English top-flight football.
The £41m midfielder - signed from Lens successful the summertime transportation model - was connected people successful Brentford's last pre-season friendly, a 7-0 crushing of Eintracht Frankfurt astatine the Gtech Community Stadium connected August 15.
Despite the beingness of the attack-minded Mikkel Damsgaard, Sangare is already a midfield shoo-in alongside Vitaly Janelt and Mathias Jensen, 2 of the longest-serving players successful the Bees' squad.
The midfield triumvirate volition run down a menacing attacking portion of Dango Ouattara, Kevin Schade and Igor Thiago, who registered an exceptional 8 extremity involvements betwixt them successful the obliteration of Frankfurt.
Thiago recovered the nett doubly successful that friendly, small astonishment fixed the Brazilian boasted the champion conversion complaint of immoderate Premier League subordinate to person 25+ shots past season, putting distant 26.2% of his opportunities en way to scoring 22 goals successful total.
Head manager Keith Andrews does person 1 antiaircraft interest to enactment around, though, arsenic Sepp van den Berg is expected to walk 3 months connected the sidelines with an abductor wounded sustained implicit the summer.
As a result, Kristoffer Ajer and Nathan Collins volition enactment arsenic the cardinal obstruction for Caoimhin Kelleher, who volition besides beryllium protected by Michael Kayode and Keane Lewis-Potter connected the opening day.
Brentford imaginable starting lineup:
Kelleher; Kayode, Ajer, Collins, Lewis-Potter; Sangare, Janelt; Ouattara, Jensen, Schade; Thiago
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