Brentford would contemplate promoting Ivan Toney ‘if the precise value is there’, in response to head coach Thomas Frank.
Toney is at the moment serving an eight-month ban for breaches of betting rules and isn’t eligible to play once more till January 2024. He was solely allowed to return to first-team coaching by the FA on Monday.
Through the 2022/23 Premier League season, Toney was one in every of simply three gamers to interrupt the 20-goal barrier, becoming a member of Harry Kane and Golden Boot-winner Erling Haaland in an unique membership.
Toney has gone from energy to energy since becoming a member of Brentford from Peterborough United in 2020, and there may be understandably hypothesis over his long-term future on the Gtech Group Stadium.
Throughout an look on Sky Sports activities’ Monday Evening Soccer, Frank admitted the Bees are a ‘promoting membership’ and must contemplate gives for Toney.
“Up to now we have solely bought one [key player] within the Premier League, David Raya – that is a mortgage however we’ll most likely promote him [to Arsenal] sooner or later,” Frank started.
“I feel each membership on the earth are a promoting membership besides 5 – 6 golf equipment. We’re a promoting membership. If the precise value is there and I feel if the timing is correct for the gamers to go, I feel if they’ve developed effectively with us and been on the journey, they’ve confirmed to be adequate to play on the prime golf equipment, then I feel it is the precise factor [to sell them] on the proper value.
“Sure [this applies to Toney], I perceive why there are lots of rumours about him. For me, I feel he is without doubt one of the finest strikers. As a quantity 9, I do not see many on the earth which are higher than him. You will have [Harry] Kane, [Robert] Lewandowski, these sorts, however not many.
“He scored 20 objectives within the Premier League final yr in, in fact, an excellent Brentford facet. However we don’t make as many possibilities as the highest six or seven groups. Think about him in a prime staff. He would simply rating 20 to 25 objectives [a season], for me. I feel he’s composed, a superb finisher, and has a prime mentality.
“He’s a Brentford participant now and in right now’s market, the worth for gamers within the quantity six [is high] and everybody is aware of that goal-scorers and attackers are the costliest. I assume that will be very costly.”
90min reported final week that Chelsea, who’ve lengthy struggled to discover a prolific striker, are weighing up a transfer for Toney as soon as he returns to motion in January.
In an interview on The Diary Of A CEO podcast, Toney admitted that he grew up as a supporter of Liverpool, although he additionally admired Arsenal, fuelling hypothesis that he wish to be a part of both of these golf equipment.
Sources have confirmed to 90min that although Liverpool should not serious about Toney, Arsenal have been holding a watchful eye on him. Nevertheless, they’re unlikely to maneuver for a brand new striker until they encounter an damage pile-up, whereas long-term goal Dusan Vlahovic is believed to be extra simply attainable.
